Bio: Pagenkopf, George (Barn Loss Refund - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Pagenkopf

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/30/1976

Pagenkopf, George (Barn Loss Refund - 1976)

A check for $18,796.42 was presented by AMPI, a milk marketing cooperative, to George Pagenkopf, Rt. 3 Neillsville, in an informal ceremony Tuesday morning on the Pagenkopf farm. Pagenkopf had his barn and milk house burn down in a November 8 fire, also losing his milking herd of 135 cows. As a member of AMPI’s milk market loss program that covers natural disasters, like the fire, the dairyman received a check to cover at least partially some of his reported $150,000loss. AMPI officials stated that the Pagenkopf loss was the largest claim paid in the history of the cooperative.