The following is an excerpt from “Elmwood Townships a Pictorial History” by Larry Wakefield.
The Lautners in Elmwood Township area all descendants of Wenzel Lautner, who immigrated to America in 1865 from Engleberg, Austria, with his wife, eight sons and a daughter.
A friend living west of Traverse City, Edward Ansorge, encouraged the family to come to this country; it was a “land of great opportunity,” he wrote.
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