A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OF AVAUPACA COUNTY 625
reside there, highly respected and much esteemed. Of their six children three alone grew to mature years: Alary, Rudolph A. and Louisa, the last named being now deceased.
Rudolph A. Karpinsky remained on the home farm until he was twenty-two years of age, in the meanwhile having attended both the parochial and public schools. Later he entered Concordia College, at Springfield, Illinois, where he received his theological training and was graduated therefrom in 1900, His first charge after being ordained to the Lutheran ministry w^as at Bern, in Nemaha County, Kansas, where he remained until the fall of 1903, when he was transferred to Belle Plaine, in Shawano County, AA^isconsin, where he continued in charge until Alay, 1911, when he cam^e to Aianawa, Here he has not only proved himself a faithful pastor but has impressed everyone with his high personal character. He has been interested in all movements for the betterment of the moral standards of this community and, while preaching a gospel of love and charity, has not failed to call attention to conditions that need improving. Through his ministrations members have been added to the church and its temporal as well as spiritual affairs have received his careful attention.
In 1900 Reverend Karpinsky was married to Aiiss Amanda Zank, who was born at Augusta, Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Christopher Zank, a well known resident of that place. To Reverend and Airs. Karpinsky a family of seven children have been born, as follows: Ger¬ trude, Hildegarde, Concordia, Adolph, Johanas, David and Victoria.
Fred R. AIeikle.john. The excellent business standing of Fred R. Aleiklejohn rests upon a number of years of activity, but principally is it the outgrowth of the successful hardware business which he has con¬ ducted at Aianawa since 1908. He is further known as a skilled banker, as a public-spirited promoter of stable and practical conditions and a typical representative of the best class of native AVisconsinians. He was born on a farm in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, April 11, 1877, and is a son of Robert and Catherine (Vinton) Aleiklejohn.
Robert Aleiklejohn was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, and there was educated in the public schools and reared to manhood. Air. Meiklejohn belonged to a good family in the East and possessed the ability to have won success for himself in his native state, but the AA^est called to him as a section in which to. win quick and large rewards, and when he was onl}^ twenty-one 7/ears old he came to AA^aupaca County, AVisconsin, and located in Little Wolf Township, where he was for seven¬ teen years interested in the lumber business with James Aleiklejohn. From this locality he moved to a farm in Empire Township, Fond du Lac County, and later to another property in AA^aupun Township, in the same county, where he passed the remaining years of his life in agri¬ cultural pursuits. Mr. Aleiklejohn was a man of energy and industry, of honesty and integrity, who prosecuted his activities energetically and transacted his dealings with his fellows in a straightforward and honor¬ able manner.    He was not a seeker after preferment in a public way