From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 1026-1027
 
BERNHARD A. KROHN.  Agriculture has been the true source of man's dominion on 
earth ever since the primal existence of labor and has been the pivotal 
industry that has controlled for the most part, all the fields of action to 
which his intelligence and energy have been devoted.  Among this sturdy 
element in Walworth county whose labors have profited alike themselves and the 
community in which they live is Bernhard A. KROHN, one of the most substantial 
and influential citizens of Whitewater township, and in view of the consistent 
life record lived by him since coming to this section of the country, it is 
particularly fitting that the following record of his career be incorporated 
in a book of this nature.
 
Mr. KROHN was born in Rome township, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, August 4, 
1873.  He is the son of Herman and Hannah (KUEHL) KROHN, both born in Germany 
where they spent their childhood.  The father left the empire when a young man 
and came to the United States, locating at Watertown, Jefferson county, 
Wisconsin.  The mother of the subject also emigrated to that place about the 
same time and these parent were married in Watertown.  They started in life 
with no capital and were subjected to the usual privations of emigrants in a 
new country, but they worked hard and in time had a comfortable home.  Herman 
KROHN was one of the sturdy band of "forty-niners" who crossed the great 
plains to California with an ox-team, the trip requiring six months.  He met 
with considerable success as a gold miner and later returned to Watertown, 
Jefferson county, finally locating in Rome township, that county, on a farm of 
eighty acres.  He is now the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and eight 
acres at Golden Lake, Jefferson county, and is living retired at the advanced 
age of eighty-three years.  His wife is seventy-seven years old.  They were 
the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living, six sons and one 
daughter.  In politics he is a Democrat.  In an early day he drove a team from 
Rome to Jefferson, Wisconsin, and his stories of pioneer times are 
interesting.  He is a member of the Lutheran church.
 
Bernhard A. KROHN, of this sketch was reared on the home farm where he worked 
when a boy and he received his education in the public schools, being educated 
both in German and English.  When a young man he engaged in the creamery 
business at Cushman Mill and Palmyra.  In 1910 he bought a farm two miles east 
of Whitewater, consisting of sixty acres, and here he has a good home.  In 
partnership with two brothers, Gus and William, he owns one thousand and forty 
acres of valuable land in Langlade county, Wisconsin.  Politically, he is a 
Democrat and a member of the Lutheran church.
 
Mr. KROHN was married in 1903 to Catherine BUTH, a native of Sullivan, 
Wisconsin.  She is the daughter of August and Minnie (PANSKE) BUTH, the father 
a native of Germany and the mother of American parentage.  They own a good 
farm at Sullivan and still live there.  To the subject and wife two children 
have been born, Harvey and Elsie.
 
Submitted by Carol