Langlade County, Wisconsin - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 57 of those read), 1922 (part 4 of 5)

^ FRANK J. KOUTNIK, Merchant, was born in Deerbrook, Neva township, the son of Agnes and Jacob Koutnik, January 1, 1892. He attended the Deerbrook graded schools and the Antigo High School, from which he graduated in 1912. He then entered the Antigo Business College, from which he graduated in 1914. He was employed as a bookkeeper in the State Bank of Morton County, Mandan, N. D., from 1914-17. With war excitement high Mr. Koutnik enlisted in the U. S. Marines, May 21, 1917, and was overseas twenty months. He was in the 6th Regiment, 2nd Division, U. S. M. He received his hon- orable discharge from service August 13, 1919. Returning to Langlade County he purchased the N. D. Neilson grocery, November 15, 1921. This business is located at 631 Fifth avenue and has since been known as Koutnik's grocery. Mr. Koutnik's parents have a splendid farm in Neva township.

JOHN J. CHERF, retired farmer, was born in Reedsvllle, Wisconsin, July 16, 1859, the son of Barbara and Joseph Cherf. He spent his boyhood and youth in Reedsville. June 6, 1880, the Cherf family decided to move to the wilderness of Langlade County. They took the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad as far as Wausau and then "toted" their household goods and provisions from there via Hogarty's stopping place to Neva township. Mr. Cherf followed the three wagon loads of family property afoot. His work was to drive the cattle, swine and sheep. The family arrived in this county June 10, 1880, the trip taking four days.

Mr. Cherf married Katherine Karban, May 12, 1886. To this union five children were born. They are: Mary, now Mrs. George Manthey; Emil, city letter carrier, former ex-service man, who served in the areo construction service, from which he was honorably discharged on December 13, 1919, and a member of the American Legion; Frank, a Priest, now Professor at St. Procopius College, Lisle, 111.; Albert, deceased; John, an expert electrician. Mr. and Mrs. Cherf moved to Antigo March 10, 1914, having retired from the Neva farm. The family residence is at 1118 Third avenue. Mr. Cherf is a member of St. John's Catholic church. Mr. Cherf can recall many reminiscences of pioneer life in Langlade County.

OTTO RICHTER, Shoe Merchant, was born May 6, 1855, in Kamen, Pomerau, Germany, son of Marie and David Richter. He attended the Kamen schools, staying in Germany until he was twenty-six years old. July 7; 1881, he landed in America and proceeded to Forest Junction, Wisconsin. Here Mr. and Mrs. Richter resided until October 18, 1888, when they moved to Antigo, Wisconsin. Mr. Richter has engaged in the retail shoe business in Antigo since then. He was married September 10, 1880, to Augusta Kash. The ceremony was performed in Demen, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Richter are the parents of seven children: Daniel J., a Milwaukee, Wis., merchant; Otto, a vaudeville actor; David, retail shoe merchant; Mrs. Fred Bohan, deceased daughter, who passed away at the age of 26; Mrs. Edwin Berg, and Miss Lydia Richter. Mr. Richter attends Zion Evangelical church. His residence is at 436 Lincoln street.

DR. FRANK KONRAD VOSS, Veterinary Surgeon, was born October 29, 1880, the son of Sophia and Charles Voss. When two years old he moved with his parents to Antigo (1882). He attended the public schools of Antigo until 1893 when he moved with his parents on a farm in East Ackley. He worked on his father's farm and in the lumber camps until he was twenty-four years old. Young Voss then went out west, returning to Langlade County to begin the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. He followed this profession from 1895 to 1907, temporarily. That year he permanently went into the work. Dr. Voss has practiced in Antigo since April 28, 1912. He now has his office at 1036 Fourth avenue, where he has a modern equipped veterinary hospital and home stable for practice. This is the first stable of its kind in upper Wisconsin. The building is a tile and stucco construction 36 x 60 feet.

Dr. Voss was married to Belle Horton Strong, on March 1, 1916. His home is at 1042 Fourth avenue. He is a member of the Beavers and Moose lodges. He has been Humane Officer of Langlade County for many years.

Sophia Voss, his mother, died when he was six years old, March 18, 1886. Charles Voss, his father, resides in Antigo township on the Herman Hafmeister farm. Dr. Voss is interested in good horses, likes to hunt, fish and go boating.

EDGAR MINER NEFF, was born at Lundon, Canada, April 5, 1851, where he spent his boyhood days and attended the common schools. When a young man he learned the blacksmith trade, then came to Green Bay, where he worked at his trade for a number of years.

ren were born. Charles H., who died in his twentieth year; George; Albert; Margaret, (now Mrs. A. D. Washburn, of Ironwood, Michigan); Mary, (Mrs. Charles J. Hanzel) ; and a daughter who died in infancy.

Moved to Mill Center in 1877, continued the trade there. And in 1879 he moved on a homestead near Bryant; came through Shawano on the old Military Road to Langlade; then to Mueller's Lake. Stopped at Mr. Herman Mueller's on October 25, 1879; from Langlade to Mueller's Lake followed N. Anderson's blazed trail - no roads were built at that time.

In 1881 he moved to Antigo, which was only a village at that time. He immediately started a shop here. His skill as a workman brought him trade from all parts of the county. He worked from early morning until late at night. By hard work and much selfdenial he saved enough to buy a half interest in a sawmill with Matt Miller, of Green Bay, at the place now known as Neff Switch. Later on he purchased the interest of his partner. He then built a new mill, one of the largest this side of Oshkosh. Besides the mill, he built a store, a boarding house and a number of houses for workmen. He built a branch line to connect with the Chicago & Northwestern. He prospered in the mill business. He was installing new machinery in the new mill when a fire, of unknown origin, destroyed the entire plant.

Mr. Neff had great faith in the future of Antigo and he invested largely in real estate and built a number of houses for rent. In 1913 he and Mr. T. J. Roberts built the Neff-Roberts Block on Fifth avenue.

He served in the capacity of councilman for several years. Was also a member of the school board a number of years and he was on the building committee for the Antigo High School.

CHARLES E. HOWARTH, Machinist, was born in the city of Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1882, the son of Luella and Robert P. Howarth. When two months old he moved to Marshfield, Wisconsin, with his parents. Here he attended the public schools until he was nine years of age. He then moved with his parents to Chicago, where he completed his education. When he was seventeen years old he entered a machine shop as an apprentice. He has followed the machinist trade since and is an expert in his chosen field. He has been employed twelve years in Milwaukee, four years in Wausau, six years at Antigo, and at other places. He came to Antigo November 1, 1916. Mr. Howarth has his machine shop at 513 Edison street. He lives with his parents at 331 Hudson street, Antigo, Wis. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a Congregationalist by faith.

DR. ALFRED B. JORGENSEN, Veterinary Surgeon, was born January 27, 1881, at Norway, Michigan, the son of Caroline and Rasmus Jorgensen. When eighteen months old he moved to the Town of New Denmark, near Green Bay, Wisconsin, with his parents. Here he lived until five years of age. He then moved with his parents to Iron River, Michigan, in 1888. He attended the public schools of Iron River. When twenty-one years old he left Iron River for Algoma, where he was engaged in the veterinary medicine and surgery profession for thirteen years. He then came to Antigo, September 25, 1915, opened up veterinary offices in Antigo at 712 Superior street. Dr. Jorgensen is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Ontario, Canada. He graduated in 1908.

The Jorgensen residence is at 216 Second avenue. Dr. Jorgensen is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Antigo Lodge No. 231 F. & A. M. He enjoys a lucrative practice in Langlade County and adjacent territory as well as being Chief Veterinary and Sergeant in Battery "A," field artillery, Antigo's military unit.

CLAUDE CLIFFORD, Orchestra Leader, was born January 28, 1888, son of Eva and Charles Clifford. He attended the public schools of Antigo, his birthplace, after which he engaged in various occupations. He became interested in music at an early age and is now an expert drummer. Mr. Clifford organized Clifford's Orchestra twenty years ago.

He is married and has two children, Dorothy and Loretta. Mrs. Clifford was formerly Miss Mayme Weix, and the wedding was performed on November 19, 1908. The Clifford family reside at 130 Hudson street.

Clifford's Orchestra, popular and well known, has the following members: Claud Clifford, leader and drummer; Frank Janasek, cornet; Esther Fehring, piano; Mrs. Ruby Kimball, trombone. The orchestra has played at many events of local importance.

GEORGE W. SCHMITZ, Insurance Agent, was born February 22, 1890, the son of Elizabeth and Thomas Schmitz, early Antigo residents. He secured his education in the Antigo parochial schools and in 1908 graduated from the Antigo High School. He attended Culver Military Academy one year following his graduation. Mr. Schmitz then returned to Antigo where he entered the employ of the Antigo Daily Journal as Advertising Manager. Resigning this position he became manager of the Insurance Department of Morse & Tradewell from 1911-14. Since then he has been in business alone forming the George W. Schmitz Agency.

tered the second reserve officers' training camp at Ft. Sheridan, August 27, 1917. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant November 27, 1917. Lieutenant Schmitz was promoted to First Lieutenant in July, 1918. He served at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and December 13, 1918, was honorably discharged. June 15, 1920, he married Frances Zentner, daughter of F. T. Zentner, a former Cashier of the First National Bank

Corning, Ohio. Mr. Cody was also employed in the wholesale and retail meat market business conducted by Mr. Holden. Here he worked from 1890 to 1893, when he sold out. He then went to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he took up employment as a locomotive fireman on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway, which position he held until 1894. Mr. Cody then returned to Columbus, Ohio, again enter- of Antigo. Mr. and Mrs. Schmitz have one child, Helene. George Schmitz is a member of the American Legion, the B. P. O. E., and K. of C. lodges.

EDWARD CODY, Postmaster, was born in New Lexington, Ohio, March 4, 1874. He attended the graded schools, finishing his education in 1890. In 1894 he took a commercial course in the Columbus Business College, Columbus, Ohio. When sixteen years of age he was employed by M. Holden, then engaged in the Furniture and Undertaking business at ing the employ of Mr. Holden in his new grocery and meat market business at that place. He held this position until 1901. While in Columbus he was Election Clerk in Precinct B, 9th Ward. In 1901 he came to Antigo, Wisconsin, bought out a shoe store and has been since in that business. He married Nellie J. M. Anderson, a grand-daughter of Niels Anderson, Antigo's first merchant, March 31, 1902. In 1915 he was instrumental in forming a corporation, known as the Cody Shoe Co., of which he was made President. Mr. Cody was elected City Treasurer of Antigo in 1904, serving one term. He is a Vice President of the Antigo Loan & Investment Co.; was Clerk of the Modern Woodmen for several years ; held offices in the B. P. O. E. Lodge; went through the chairs of the K. of C. lodge, and is a fourth degree member of that order; was Chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Langlade County for ten consecutive years; a Director and Treasurer of the Antigo Commercial Club, and Vice President of the Antigo Militia Company during the war. He is now Chairman of the Langlade County Chapter of the American Red Cross, which position he has held since its organization. He was one of the active committee members who put over all War Work in Langlade County. September 1, 1921, he was elected State Treasurer of the Wisconsin Postmasters' Association. Mr. Cody has been postmaster of Antigo since February 24, 1915. Edward Cody played an important part in the organization of Company G., Antigo's military unit in the World War.

JOHN PALMER, Grocer, came to Antigo with his parents, Anna and Emanuel Palmer, in the year 1883, when Antigo was a village. He was born in Appleton, October 23, 1881. He attended the public schools and high school of Antigo. Mr. Palmer engaged in farming work for four years, following which he engaged in the painting business for nine years. In 1909 he went into the grocery business, corner of Sixth avenue and Superior street, with Wencel Sipek. This firm was dissolved upon the death of Mr. Sipek in 1916. Mr. Palmer since conducted the business alone as Palmer's Grocery.

The subject of this sketch was married June 11, 1908, to Albina Sipek. Four children were born to this union. They are Vernon, John, Dorothy, and Jane. John Palmer is a member of the Charter Oak Lodge, Knights of Pythias. The Palmer residence is at 429 Edison street.

FRANK P. VER BRYCK, pioneer locomotive engineer, has served as such for half a century on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, first the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad and then with the former, when in 1893 the property of the Lake Shore system was sold.

Mr. Ver Bryck was born January 1, 1854, in Granville, Milwaukee County, the son of Samantha and Ralph P. Ver Bryck. He was the fourth of five children. When an infant he moved with his parents to the Town of Eden, Fond du Lac County, from where the family moved to the city of Fond du Lac. It was here that he attended the public schools. At the age of seventeen he started as a railroad fireman, January 13, 1871, with the C. & N. W. R. R. Co. Two years later, February 13, 1873, he was promoted to the rank of locomotive engineer which he still holds. In 1872 Mr. Ver Bryck moved with his mother to Oshkosh, Winnebago County, where he lived until 1878 when he was transferred to the Chicago Division. Here he piloted out of Chicago on various important branches.

He returned to Wisconsin in 1881, taking up his residence at Manitowoc. It was then that he entered the service of the M. L. S. & W. R. R. Co. He moved from Manitowoc to Kaukauna, thence to Ashland, from where, in 1887, he came to Antigo. He has made Antigo his home since. Mr. Ver Bryck, on January 13, 1923, will have rounded out fifty-two years continuous services as a railroad man, fifty of which were spent as an engineer.

He was married to Elizabeth Clifford, of Janesville, on February 3, 1875. Mrs. Ver Bryck passed away in Antigo on September 2, 1920. Her remains were laid to rest in the old Antigo cemetery.

F. p. Ver Bryck has been prominently identified with public activity in Antigo for many years. He served as an Alderman from the First Ward continuously for eleven years and was for a long time Chairman of the Board of Public Works of Antigo. From these offices he resigned when they conflicted with other duties. Mr. Ver Bryck is a member of the B. of L. E., a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Workers. He resides at 323 Seventh avenue.

CLIFF'ORD B. KNAPP, Grocer, was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, May 8, 1879, son of Georgiana and Edwin Knapp. He began life as a printer at the age of fourteen years, working in the Byron Van Keuren publishing plant, the Allen & Weidner plant. Baker Paper Company, Castle-Pierce plant, at Oshkosh, until when he came to Antigo in November, 1913. He was employed in Antigo as make-up man in the mechanical department of the Antigo Journal and later as Foreman of The Herald job department, from which he resigned in the fall of 1920.

Mr. Knapp opened the Knapp Grocery at 208 Hudson street April 20, 1921. He was married September 27, 1906, to Clara Boeder, to which union three children, Wilton, age 14; Edward, age 7, and Robert, age 3, were born. Mr. Knapp is a member of the F. R. A., M. W. A., and typographical union of Antigo. He has held many offices in Antigo fraternal circles, and was once Secretary of the Antigo Central Labor Union.

NICHOLAS JOHN GREISCH, Antigo Merchant, was born at Appleton, Outagamie County, June 22, 1883, son of Catherine and Fred Greisch. At an early age he left for Milwaukee and Chicago, having completed the graded schools at Appleton. Young Greisch followed the machinist's occupation. Mr. Greisch came to Antigo from Wausau, Marathon County, May 1, 1904. He engaged at once in the retail tea and coffee business which he has followed with success for the past eighteen years. In 1911 Mr. Greisch built the Greisch building on Fifth avenue. Important additions were made to this two story brick structure in 1918. The Greisch building is a lasting monument to the integrity of the subject of this sketch.

November 24, 1918, N. J. Greisch married Martha Welnetz, to which union, one child, Mary Elizabeth, was born. Mr. Greisch is a member of the Knights of

Columbus and is a member of St. John's congregation. In 1921 he was a member of the Antigo Board of Education. The Greisch business is located at 724 Fifth avenue.

Fred Greisch, father of Nicholas J. Greisch, passed away when his son was two months old. His remains are buried at Appleton. Mrs. Fred Greisch is still living in that city.

ticed law at Wittenberg, Shawano County, for two to three years; moved to Oshkosh where he stayed two years; and then, because of ill health, moved to Elcho, Langlade County, where he took up a 160-acre homestead. For five years he improved his holdings, built fine farm buildings, engaged in logging operations and farmed. His health regained, in 1904 he moved to Antigo, associating with his father in the

'iCX. .ARTHUR GOODRICK Unanimous choice of the l.ang'.ade County bar for .Municipal Judge following the death of Judge T. W. Hogan. Judge Goodrick was returned to the bench by the people in .April, 1021. Judge Goodrick enjoyed a lucrative law practice prior to his elevation to the bench.

HON. ARTHUR GOODRICK, Municipal Judge, was born at Northport, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, September 3, 1874, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Goodrick. He moved with his parents to New London and thence to Shawano, where he spent his boyhood. Ill health forced him from High School after completing three years, and for one year he divided his time between his father's law office and recuperating from illness. The next year he entered Lawrence College, Appleton, and two years later returned to the law office of his father, where he studied law. In 1894 he took a special examination and was admitted into the Senior law class. University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1895. Attorney Goodrick then pracpractice of law under the firm name of Goodrick & Goodrick. This partnership was dissolved July 12, 1917. Attorney Goodrick then practiced alone. Upon the death of Hon. T. W. Hogan, Municipal Judge of Langlade County, the Langlade County Bar Association, at a special meeting, unanimously recommended the appointment of Attorney Goodrick as Municipal Judge, and on December 9, 1919, Governor Emanuel L. Phillip appointed him to that important office. In April, 1921, Judge Goodrick was returned to the bench by the people of the county for a new term, defeating Attorney George W. Latta. With the exception of being township Chairman of Elcho prior to his appointment as Municipal Judge, Judge Good- rick held no public office. At the time of his elevation to the bench he had one of the most lucrative and largest practices in Northern Wisconsin and accepted the Judgeship at a considerable sacrifice from a pecuniary viewpoint. While Municipal Judge he has fearlessly and ably upheld the dignity of the office.

Judge Goodrick is a member of the Commandery and other Masonic bodies, and the M. W. A. He was married to Miss Birdie Smith, of Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1896, and they make their home at 402 Fifth Avenue, Antigo, Wis.

F. A. MILLARD, once a prominent Antigo Merchant, was born January 14, 1861, in Neenah, Wisconsin, the son of Johan and Susan Millard. At the age of six he moved to New London, Wisconsin. He resided on a farm for five years, returning then to a farm near Neenah. Leaving the farm, Mr. Millard was engaged in various clerical positions in Neenah with four concerns. He then went to Oshkosh, Winnebago County, for a year and a half, and January 1, 1882, he came to Antigo, as one of the city's pioneers. Employed by L. D. Moses, Moses & Gray, Hessel & Leykom hardware, the Antigo-Edison Electric Light Company, then in the painting and papering business. Mr. Millard ended thus a variation of occupations by purchasing the Dan Mahoney stationery store which he operated for seven years. He then went to the Wolf River country engaging in logging for a year; returned to Antigo, buying out Harry Hopkins' stationery business. He has been engaged in the same business since. Mr. Millard sold his interest in the Millard & Hartford book store and on August 1, 1922, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin.

F. A. Millard married Winnie B. Williams, pioneer Antigo woman, April 30, 1886. Two children were born to this union, Robert D., a University of Wisconsin graduate, and University of Pennsylvania graduate in the medical department. Doctor Robert Millard is now at Queen Hospital, Honolulu, H. I.; John Millard, younger son, is a University of Wisconsin student.

HARRY E. RADTKE, Real Estate Dealer, was born at Caroline, Shawano County, Wisconsin, May 9, 1897, son of Gustav and Louise Radtke. He attended the graded schools after which he worked at various occupations, driving for a doctor, worked as timber cruiser for his father, engaged in the manufacture of cheese, becoming manager of the W. A. Stanton factory, at New London, Wis., purchased a cheese factory at Bear Creek, Outagamie County, returned a year later to cruising and surveying with his father. Two years later he entered the employ of the Holub Real Estate Co., Wausau, Wisconsin. A year and a half later he came to Antigo opening the Radtke Real Estate Agency, with offices in the First National Bank building. Mr. Radtke is a member of the B. P. O. E.

GEORGE JOHN FRANZ, Antigo Merchant, was born April 23, 1870, near Nova Kdyne, Austria, the son of Mary and James Franz. While a boy he attended the public schools of Nova Kdyne for five years. He then entered the great spinning mills of Nova Kdyne and for four years was connected with the spinning and weaving departments. The desire to cross the Atlantic and settle in America was strong in his breast. This hope was realized when he landed at Baltimore, Md., September 27, 1884. He went to Milwaukee, worked in a factory, and then moved to Kewaunee. After working for a year on a farm he went to Rib Lake, Marathon County, where for a short time he was a sawmill worker. Mr. Franz returned to Milwaukee and worked twelve years in a tannery and twelve years for the Gem Hammock & Fly Net Company as foreman.

He came to Antigo, Wisconsin, June 12, 1914, purchased a property at Elm street and Third avenue, sold it and then bought his present property at Fourth avenue and Deleglise street. Mr. Franz since engaged in the retail grocery business at that location. He was married September 22, 1910, at St. John de Nepomac church, Milwaukee, Wis., to Maria Neuwirth. Five children, three girls and two boys, were born to this union. They are Maria, Anthony, Georgia, Harrietta, and Alice. Mr. Franz's father died in Austria in 1884. His mother died in Chicago in 1912. The Franz family attends St. Mary's Catholic church.

WILLIAM JACOB GIESE, Manager Beverage Plant, was born in the Town of Shields, Marquette County, April 18, 1890, son of Mary and William Giese. He attended District No. 4 rural schools, same township, following which he engaged in farming on his father's farm until 1904, working on Albert Giese's, a brother's farm, in 1905. He then worked successively as timekeeper. Red Granite Monumental Co., six months. He was then called to Shields township because of his mother's illness; came to Antigo in June, 1906; September, 1906, called to Shields township because of his mother's death. While in Antigo has been employed as cement contractor for W. A. Stewart. Mr. Giese aided in construction of Court House, High School, and other public works. He worked with the Paine Lumber Co. in the fall of 1906, with his brother John Giese in Shields township, Marquette County, during that winter and in 1907; returned to Antigo working with A. Goldberg grocery department; September, 1907, with M. Krom & Son, until spring of 1908. His father died April 30, 1908, and Mr. Giese then went from Marquette County to Abbotsford where he hired out as a fireman on the Soo. He made his student trip to Minneapolis and decided that railroading was not to his desire.

He then engaged as solicitor for Kaisser & Johnson, wholesale grocers, Minneapolis, returning September 19, 1908, to Antigo. October 8, 1908, he opened Antigo Cash Grocery as Vice President of corporation. In spring 1913 he entered employ Charles Hanzel, wholesale liquor dealer, where he was employed until July 1, 1918. Then entered Antigo Furniture & Undertaking Co., staying with them studying undertaking, until May 18, 1919. June 1, 1919, took up position as F. R. A. district manager, which he resigned December 5, 1921, to take over Antigo office of Taylor Beverage & Candy Co., Rhinelander, Wis.

Mr. Giese was married November 20, 1912, to Henrietta Meidam. They have two children, Marion Elizabeth and Melbourne James. Mr. Giese is a member of the K. C, F. R. A., Owls lodges. He is a member of St. John's congregation. The Giese residence is at 916 Eighth Avenue, Antigo, Wis.

JOSEPH G. WIRIG, prominent citizen, was born in Oakland township, Jefferson County, May 23, 1871, son of Barbara Heidelman Wirig and Adam Wirig. He moved from the farm to Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson County, at an early age. Here he attended the public schools, after which he entered the employ of the Northwestern Manufacturing Company, of that city. At the age of seventeen, 1888, he began as an apprentice to learn blacksmithing, which he has since followed. Mr. Wirig resided at Ft. Atkinson until 1889 when he went into northern Wisconsin, working at Gagen, named after Dan Gagen, pioneer fur trader. He then went to Eagle River, Vilas County, where he followed his trade for three years. Mr. Wirig then moved to Antigo where he has since been. He was a blacksmith for fifteen years for Laughlin & Kelly and was about twelve years with Leonard Freiburger. He then went into business alone, in 1917. He was a member of the original Antigo Wagon Works.

Mr. Wirig was married October 30, 1895, to Annie Richey and they have three children, Nora, a teacher; Ruth, a nurse; and Marres, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin.

Mr. Wirig had served with credit as Supervisor and Alderman of the Sixth Ward, the latter seven years, and for three years as a member of the Board of Education. The Wirig residence is at 339 Virginia street.

NATHANIEL R. BABCOCK, Real Estate Dealer, was born in the town of Clayton, Winnebago County, January 20, 1868, the son of Malinda and Marvin Babcock. He received a common school education after which he attended the Marshfield High School. His school days ended, young Babcock began to meet the vicissitudes of life. He engaged in employment with a stave factory for two years at Marshfield, following which he was employed by the Vollmar & Krause general store. At this time, June 27, 1887, Marshfield was destroyed by fire. Mr. Babcock then went to Warren, Minnesota, where he farmed for one year, 1888. He returned to Marshfield, working a year in a hotel. Thirty-three years ago, 1889, he drove a number of horses up to Langlade for Charles Larzelere and Charles McFarland. John Gibson was then mail carrier on the Military Road. He came to Antigo from Langlade when much of the intervening country was a vast wilderness. Returning to Marshfield Mr.

Babcock advised John Holley, G. H. Maxwell and others interested, to locate the stave mill (of the Antigo Manufacturing Co.) they contemplated, at Antigo, which they did in 1892. He was in their employ until 1896 - he assisted in clearing the land for the mill site - then associated with Jos. Duchac and Webster, of Chicago, 111., in real estate business.

He was married to Miss Ellethra Beattie, Clayton township, Winnebago County, September 6, 1893. One child, Orpha, was born to this union. Miss Babcock is a graduate of the Antigo High School, 1918, Whitewater Normal, 1920, and is now a teacher in the Appleton High School commercial department. The Babcock home is at 232 Field street. Mr. Babcock has served as Alderman, five years on the Board of Education, as Chairman of the Building Committee of the present High School, and is now a member of the Park and Cemetery Board of the City of Antigo.

OTTO G. NOLTE, Shoe Merchant, was born in Winnebago County, January 18, 1881, the son of Katherine and A. C. Nolte. He attended the public schools of Oshkosh, where he moved with his parents when two years old. Leaving school he began office work in a wholesale shoe house from which he was promoted to stockman in the same business. He came to Antigo in November, 1903, and entered the employ of the First National Bank as a bookkeeper. He rose from bookkeeper to Assistant Cashier, resigning in April, 1921, to take over the Herbst Shoe Store, 811 Fifth avenue, which he has since owned.

Mr. Nolte was married to Euphemia Hill, daughter of the late George W. Hill, pioneer merchant and former Antigo Mayor, October 3, 1905. One son. Dexter George, was born to this union. Mr. Nolte is a member of the Elks lodge and the Masonic orders. The Nolte family reside at 319 Seventh avenue.

FREIDERICH GOTTFRIED GUNKEL, Antigo Baker, was born at Sollstedt, Province of Sachsen, Germany, December 3, 1868, son of Johanna and Heinrich Gunkel. He attended the schools of Sollstedt until he was fourteen years old, after which he began to learn the baker trade, and for three years was in a bakery in Berlin, capital of Germany. When seventeen years old he came to America, October 10, 1903. For five years he engaged in his business at St. Louis, Mo., and on November 2, 1908, came to Antigo where he has since conducted Antigo's oldest bakery establishment, 506 Superior street.

He was married to Othelia Bork, August 30, 1900, Berlin, Germany. Two children bless this union - Gertrude and Alfreda. Mr. Gunkel has made extensive improvements in his bakery from time to time. It is well patronized.

LOUIS FRANK PETERS, Plumber, was bom in the city of Wausau, Marathon County, April 19, 1883, the son of Antonette and Hugo Peters, natives of

Germany. They came to Wisconsin early in the '60's settling in Milwaukee, later coming to Wausau, where they have since resided. Louis Peters received a common school education and at an early age learned the plumbing trade. He became a master plumber, or plumbing contractor, on April 5, 1904. April 15, 1904, he came to Antigo, where he has since lived. Mr. Peters was married to Christie Summ, September 17, 1907. One son was born, Marlowe Hugo, July 25, 1909. Louis F. Peters is an active member of Antigo Lodge A. F. & A. M. No. 261, Antigo Chapter, Antigo Commandery No. 61, and the Tripoli Shrine of Milwaukee. He is a member of Antigo Lodge No. 662 B. P. 0. E., also a member of Charter Oak Lodge, No. 150, Knights of Pythias. The Peters family reside at 419 Lincoln street.

CHARLES W. FISH. No better resume of the life of Charles W. Fish, one of the leading manufacturers of Wisconsin and often referred to as the largest individual lumber operator in the United States can be told than the following, which appeared in a current issue of THE AMERICAN LUMBERMAN in 1918:

"Men who fail to achieve conspicuous success are prone to take refuge in the excuse that the day of great opportunities has passed. It is a favorite alibi in the lumber business especially. We are told that the great captains of the industry won their positions through the fortuitous circumstances of a pioneer period, when the raw material was easy to acquire, competition nil and a developing nation clamorously demanded their products. It is an excuse that convinces many people, but seldom convinces the pioneer lumberman, who knows that he had his own special difficulties and the special handicaps of his time with which he had to contend.

The door of opportunity is as widely open today in the lumber business as it was in the '80s. It may require commercial genius; but these have inevitably been the price of real success.

There is no finer example of what the young man of today may do than is found in the life story of Charles W. Fish, of Elcho, Wis. Less than fifteen years ago he was a store clerk at $35 a month today he is the head of a million dollar proposition employing 700 men, operating three sawmills, electric light plants and other utilities, and is the creator, or recreator, of one of the most progressive communities in America - the town of Elcho, in which he lives. He is 40 years old - and now that the fact is revealed many men will be astonished that he is so young, having accomplished so much - and at that age he has taken his proper place among the great lumbermen of the United States. He is no fortunate child of a pioneer period. He hewed out his own success while other men of his age were complaining that the day of opportunity in the lumber business was past, today offering them no promise.

There is no more fascinating story than the biography of men. There is no more romantic biography than that of "Charlie" Fish, sailor, gold hunter in the

Klondike, structural iron worker out of a job and "broke"; then the door of opportunity opened an inch; he shoved his foot through and forced his way, overcoming every obstacle, until, in a rapid rise of eight years, he attained his present position.

Charles Wesley Fish was born August 28, 1877, at Otterville, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, a son of Oliver C. Fish and Priscilla (Schooley) Fish. The mother died in 1915. Oliver C. Fish has lived to see his son reach success, and is a resident of the community which is his headquarters.

later managing the business at Gratwick, Smith & Fryer, of Tonawanda, N. Y., of Franfort. There were two other children besides Charles. His brother Donald is now associated with him in Elcho; the other brother is Dr. Edward Fish, chief of the interdenominational medical missionary corps of the province in Thibet.

At 14 years Charles began clerking in a general store. Then he was a Western Union messenger at $1 a week and spent a year at it. The big steamers of the Manistee lumber docks called to him, and he became a sailor, serving on the old propellers carrying lumber to Buffalo.

excitement. There were sixteen adventurers in that party and his father staked him for two hundred dollars to make the trip. He prospected all of the summer of 1895 in Turnagain Arm and lost nearly all he had. One of the men had sciatic rheumatism, and the party drew lots to see which should take care of him. Fish drew the long straw, and passed up the opportunity to seek a fortune to nurse his comrade through that illness. He had a little money left and he bought an interest in a clean-up in Canyon Creek, which used everything in his belt but never paid a dividend of any kind for the investment.

One day a mail boat that came once a month touched the coast. When the captain asked for an ablebodied seaman Fish replied "I guess I'm your man." He sailed on the steamer Commodore Perry in the coastwise trade and at the close of the season returned to Lake Am, Michigan.

At Lake Ann he married Miss Grace Vernier and went back to sailing on the lakes. He sailed for four years on the lower lake boats, attaining a second mate permit, making him probably the youngest second officer on a big boat on fresh water. He had definitely made up his mind to be a steamboat man ; but one night his captain had a bad evening and, disliking his language, young Fish quit the steamer at Cleveland and at the same time quit steamboating for good. He had had enough of wandering. The family had returned to Toronto, Mrs. Fish with them. Accompanied by his wife and his year old son he went to Manitowoc, and went to work climbing for a structural iron gang. One night he was pulled out of bed at midnight and offered a job as second mate on a ship. He refused; he was through with steamboating.

He was out of employment at the time. One day, crossing the bridge at Manitowoc, he met F. P. Jones, a lumberman whom he still defines as "the salt of the earth." "What are you doing" asked Jones. "I'm doing the hardest work any man can do," he replied, "I'm looking for a job." Mr. Jones owned a little sawmill plant at Elcho and offered him employment. The fare was $4.56. Fish borrowed $5 and went. He became a clerk in the store of the Jones Lumber Co. at Elcho at $35 a month, and sent for his wife. That was his salary for a year. Then he added $5 a month to it by looking after incoming freight for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. One day his luck turned. A homesteader wanted to sell out. Fish gave him $50 for 160 acres, paying for it with $15 of his own money and $35 he borrowed in $5 lots. He had to live in a log cabin of two rooms and walk a mile night and morning to the store - and his work at the store was finished at 9:30 or 10 at night. One day the mill company needed that 160 acres of timber in which he had invested his $50. He sold it to the Company for $3,300 cash. He had nerve and vision and, to use his own words, "I began picking up timber." That was not in the pioneer days but only a few years ago. When the G. W. Jones Lumber Co., to whom the Elcho plant belonged, decided to get out of manufacturing Mr. Fish bought a half interest in the plant and, with Thomas Mullen, a traveling salesman, as his partner, organized a $20,000 concern. Fish & Mullen. One afternoon the planing mill burned with little insurance. Fish rebuilt it; and then the sawmill burned. He was left with a planing mill and one sawmill site. He bought the stock of the others interested, but had nothing with which to rebuild or operate. So he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and for one and a half years was sales manager for the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co. Then he was manager of the operations of the Mason & Donaldson Lumber Co. at State Line, Wis.

But he was determined to get back into business for himself. He returned to Elcho eight years ago, built a small mill and began cutting lumber by the thousand. He cut 400,000 feet the first year. He kept adding to his operations and made a specialty of hardwood piling. The last eight years is a continuous story of swift and aggressive progress. He bought a store in the village. He cut 1,000,000 the next year, 2,000,000 the next, between three and four million the next. He built forty or fifty houses. He started a bank. He built a model hotel. He made Elcho a real community. Then he bought the plant of the Andrews & Roepke Lumber Co. at Birnamwood, in 1915, rebuilt the mill and increased its capacity. He bought the electric light and water plant of the town. But he still didn't have the sawmill capacity for his timber holdings, which had grown to $500,000 worth of standing trees. In 1916 he built a mill at Antigo.

The Charles W. Fish Lumber Co. (which consists of Charles W. Fish) now operates night and day a band mill at Elcho, a band mill at Birnamwood, and a band mill and resaw at Antigo. In 1918 it will ship 45,000,000 feet of lumber, 35 per cent of it hemlock, the rest birch, maple, elm and ash. The name of Fish has come to mean good lumber to the yard and factory trade of Wisconsin, Chicago, and Michigan and a constantly widening territory.

Mr. Fish's family consists of his wife, his son, Glenn H. Fish, employed at the Birnamwood plant, and two charming daughters, Blanche and Grace, students at the Milwaukee-Downer College Seminary, Milwaukee. Mr. Fish is a member of the Wisconsin Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons. No one knows of his private charities except that they are many. He has never held public office, and recently, when mentioned by enthusiastic friends for United States senator, declined to be a candidate. He finds his chief joy in his family, his business and his timber - and Elcho. It is a model town with a happy and contented population, beautiful homes, a good hotel, drug store, comm.issary, electric lights, a boulevard lighting system, an excellent school, and other conveniences of good living. He has one dream yet - to put 400 families on 400 40-acre lots, and to give them such a long time to pay for it that each man may attain a home of his own.

C. W. VAN DOREN was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, November 16, 1882. At the age of three years he moved with his parents to Birnamwood, Shawano County, where he lived until 1901. He attended the Birnamwood public schools, graduating from the Birnamwood High School in 1900. In 1901 Mr. Van Doren graduated from the Wisconsin Acad-

Knight and Reo automobiles for Langlade, Forest and Oneida Counties. Mr. Van Doren is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic Orders. In 1922 he was elected Worshipful Master of the Blue Lodge.

Mr. Van Doren takes an active interest in all civic enterprises in Antigo. His work with the Community Welfare Association alone has been unequalled.

DR. J. C. WRIGHT. Over forty years of devotion to his chosen profession is the record of Dr. J. C. Wright, prominent citizen of Antigo and Langlade County. Nearly a half century of his life has been spent in the alleviation of the ills of mankind. Such emy at Madison, Wis., and attended the University of Wisconsin in 1902-03. He returned to Birnamwood and for six years was employed as Assistant Cashier in the Bank of Birnamwood. March 30, 1905, he married Flora Jessell at Birnamwood. For three years following he was Superintendent of the Antigo Water Works, after which he resumed his connection with the Bank of Birnamwood. In April, 1915, he erected a garage in Antigo, corner of Superior street and Sixth avenue, and has the agency for Overland, Willysis indeed a faithful service - a record of which no man need be ashamed. Always giving of his best energies, always faithful to his trust, his life has been a useful one and he may look over that span of years with a sense of duty well done and he may take a pardonable pride in a work that has served to assist humanity as well as to add to the professional prestige of his community. Dr. Wright was born on a farm in Richland County, Wisconsin, March 18, 1858, a son of Rev. I. J. and Catherine Wright. His father was for many years a useful worker as a minister of the United Brethren church. Reared in Richland Dr. Wright attended the public schools and for four years was a student in Edwards Academy at Greeneville, Tennessee. On leaving preparatory school, he took up the study of medicine and graduated from the oldest and the most famous school of medicine, the Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he was a member of the class of 1881-82. Soon after he took up practice at Excelsior, Richland County, where he remained a successful practitioner for more than a quarter of a century. He moved to Antigo, Langlade County, in November, 1906, where he has since been in practice. He has served as Cit/ Physician, as Secretary of the Langlade County Medical Society, as County Physician, and was the government examiner of the county boys vvho were i.. ducted i..to the National Army during the World War.

In 1893 Dr. J. C. Wright was united in marriage to Miss Rose Hamilton, who for fifteen years prior to marriage, had taught school in Richland Center, Wisconsin. They have seven children, namely: John J., an attorney; Martha Marie, now Mrs. Harry Jewell of Antigo, Wis; Grace Belle, an instructor in physical culture; Mary, a student at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.; Catherine, a stude: t at Lawrer.ce College, Appleton, Wis.; and Hamilton and Richard, students in the Antigo public schools. Dr. J. C. Wright has membership in the Langlade County Medical Society, the Wisconsin Medical Society, the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Equitable Fraternal Union, the Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity, the Mystic Workers, the Owls, and socially and in his profession is a man of highest standing. He posseses unusual poetical ability having written many poems, including one of which has been widely read under the title "Wisconsin", and is often read at patriotic gatherings. Dr. Wright is also interested in many substantial commercial enterprises. The Wright family resides at 412 Fifth avenue.

was chosen for. He retired from the office in 1919 to engage in the life and fire insurance business, in which he is now associated with G. E. Crandall, with offices on Fifth Avenue, Antigo, Wis.

Mr. Arveson was united in marriage to Louise Belle Henshaw, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Henshaw on September 11, 1901. To this union the following children were born : Maurice H., Elliott R., Holly, Arthur, and Beth. Mrs. Arveson passed away in the prime of her life on October 18, 1920.

A. M. Arveson has been active in state fraternal affairs and in 1918 was Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the World War he was active in the various war campaigns and served on important county committees to further the Victory Fund and Liberty Loan campaigns.

A. M. ARVESON. Former County Superintendent of Langlade County Schools, former City Clerk and a well known insurance man, was born on February 14, 1874, in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin. Here he attended the rural schools. He later entered the Oshkosh State Normal. Mr. Arveson came to Antigo in March, 1893, and began teaching in the Sunnyside School, Rolling township, but a short distance from Antigo. For five years he followed his profession in the rural schools of the county and then taught five years in the city schools as principal of the Sixth Ward. During this period he attended summer school at Oshkosh Normal and the University of Wisconsin. He was elected City Clerk of Antigo in 1902 and re-elected in 1904, serving with credit in that capacity. In the fall of 1902 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Langlade County, in which capacity he served for seventeen consecutive years - a longer period than any other County Superintendent

DR. MICHAEL J. DONOHUE, was born at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on April 29, 1874, the son of Cornelius and Mary (Kittrick) Donohue. Cornelius Donohue, the father, was one of the pioneer railroad men of Wisconsin and spent forty-five years as an engineer on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western and then the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. He died in Antigo in 1901, his widow surviving him until 1907.

Michael J. Donohue moved to Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and in 1882, with his parents, he moved to Antigo. Here the future physician and surgeon attended the public schools and in 1890 graduated from the Antigo High School. From 1890 to 1892 he studied medicine in the office of the late Dr. J. F. Doyle of Antigo, and the two succeeding years he spent in taking a pre-medical course at the University of Wisconsin. In 1894 he entered the Medical Department of Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, and in 1898 graduated with the degree of M. D.

He continued to practice alone in Antigo until 1907 when he formed a partnership with his brother. Dr. E. J. Donohue, who was graduated from the schools of Antigo and from the Northwestern University at Evanston, medical department, in 1906.

Dr. Donohue and his brother have one of the best equipped offices in northern Wisconsin, the same being located in the First National Bank building. The brothers devote considerable attention to surgery in which they have and continue to gain increased prestige. Both are members of the Langlade County and the Wisconsin State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. Drs. Donohue & Donohue are members of the Roman Catholic church and they are fraternally identified with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. E. J. Donohue was married to Miss Elizabeth Mueller November 24, 1913. Dr. Michael J. Donohue was married to Miss Mabel Cody, of Antigo, on October 7, 1915. They have one son, Eugene. Dr. E. J. Donohue resides at 521 First avenue, and Dr. M. J. Donohue's residence is at 415 Clermont street.

WALTER EDWARD WIENANDT, Dray Proprietor, was born in Milwaukee, July 20, 1883, son of Fred and Anna Wienandt. He moved to Milan, Marathon County, at an early age. His parents decided to move on a farm near that village, and it was on the farm then purchased by Fred Wienandt that Walter, as a boy, spent his early days. When he was twenty-one years old he moved to Athens, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the dray business for nine years. He came to Antigo in 1918, and a year later purchased the John Kingsbury Transfer Line, which he now operates, with offices at 613 Edison street.

Mr. Wienandt was married to Mary Albrecht at Athens, August 25, 1917. His home is at 214 Watson street, Antigo, Wisconsin. He is an active member of the L. 0. O. M.

JOHN J. KINGSBURY. No stronger character or one more beloved by all classes or better known in Langlade County ever exceeded the late John Jerome Kingsbury in those qualifications. John Jerome Kingsbury was born in Dexter, Maine, the state from whence came most of the leading Wisconsin lumbermen. He was the son of J. R. Kingsbury and was born on March 25, 1852. He lived with his parents in Maine state until he was ten years of age and then the Kingsbury family moved to Portage County, Wisconsin, in 1862, residing at Jordon. From Jordon they moved to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Here Mr. Kingsbury attended the public schools and then entered Ripon College, from which he graduated. He began his lumber career when he was sixteen years old, spending some time in Portage County logging for himself. In 1873 he went to Auburndale, Wisconsin, and with his brother. Forest, erected a shingle mill, operating the same until 1882. He went to Stevens Point from Auburndale and there operated a lumber yard with his brother, the Auburndale mill having burned. Mr. Kingsbury also operated a mill at Whittlesey, Wis., for a short time. From Medford, Wisconsin, he went to the Penoki Range, operating a sawmill there. He was associated with George Rogers and Ed Winchester. In the fall of 1890 he became acquainted with Charles E. Henshaw, of Medford, Wisconsin. They formed a partnership known as the Kingsbury & Henshaw Company, and that same year they moved to Antigo. Here Messrs. Kingsbury and Henshaw operated a grist and flour mill and a modern sawmill from 1890 up to the time of Mr. Kingsbury's death. The Kingsbury & Henshaw Lumber Company was one of the best known of Wisconsin manufacturing institutions and was a vital part of the industrial section of the city of Antigo.

The late J. J. Kingsbury was married to Alice Paige, a native of Rock County, Wisconsin, on May 16, 1871, at Stevens Point, Wisconsin. To thjs union eight children were born, namely: May, Bessie and Leigh, deceased; Arthur J.; Beatrice and John E., all of Antigo, Wis.; Carl W., of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Faye, now Mrs. George Kircher, of Olivia, Minnesota.

Mr. Kingsbury died on August 2, 1917, and was buried in the family vault in the Antigo cemetery. He was a member of the Antigo lodge B. P. O. E. and all Masonic orders. He took the 32nd Masonic degree in 1913 at Milwaukee, Wis. The late J. J. Kingsbury was regarded as one of the busiest, most energetic and enterprising men of the county and his honorable methods of dealing with his fellow man firmly established him in the respect and confidence of all with whom he came in contact.

VALENTINE P. RATH, pioneer citizen and County Clerk of Langlade County, was bom in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, February 15, 1860, the son of Valentine and Mary Anna (Feser) Rath, both of whom were born in Bavaria and imigrated to America in 1858, settling in Sheboygan. The father died in Sheboygan in 1911. Valentine Rath, Sr., was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting from Sheboygan County and seeing service in some of that conflict's severest battles.

Mr. Rath was reared in the city of Sheboygan and there attended the parochial school of the Roman Catholic church, of which his parents were, and he and his family are now, members. When a youth he learned the trade of a cooper and worked at that trade for two years or more and then entered the employ of Henry Rath, packing lime. When nineteen years of age he came to Langlade County, then a part of

Oconto County, and he is one of the pioneers of this community. He settled in Price township and was active as Chairman, Assessor, Town Clerk, and in County affairs before his election to the office of County Clerk in 1902. He held the position of Town Clerk at the time of the election. Mr. Rath has been successively re-elected to the office of County Clerk at each election since 1902 with handsome majorities. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus as well as the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin and the Catholic Order of Foresters, having held various official capacities in the last two named. He is at present the Treasurer of the Wisconsin County Clerks Association, having been re-elected in 1922. Mr. Rath is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Sons of Veterans and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. May 15, 1890, he was united in marriage to Madelene Mary Friederich, of Sheboygan, who was born and reared in that city. To this union six children have been born, as follows: George P.; Joseph F. ; William M.; John H.; Clara Mary; and Thomas E. Rath. Four of Mr. Rath's sons served in the fighting forces of Uncle Sam during the World War, Thomas E. being too young at the time, later served in the U. S.

Navy, and Mr. Rath, as a member of the Board of Exemption of the Langlade County district, and who engaged actively in other war activities, distinguished himself as a true patriot. William M. Rath, while overseas, met and afterwards married Marthe Aubertin. This was Langlade County's only war romance.

Valentine P. Rath has played a conspicuous part in Langlade County activities for many years; he was instrumental in getting Price township detached from Polar township and was the leader of the homesteaders in their political battles in the pioneer days of Price.

When Mr. Rath first came to Langlade County he took up a residence on one hundred and sixty acres of land in Polar township, now Price township. He resided there for a number of years and then moved to Bryant, village in Price township, and was engaged as a lumber grader and cruiser, which work he followed until his election as County Clerk. He then moved into Antigo, where he has since made his home. By his capable and thorough performance of duty, his high order of citizenship and his fidelity to the county, Mr. Rath has won the confidence and highest esteem of scores of citizens all over Langlade County. The Rath family reside at 130 Lincoln street.

EDWARD FREDERICK BUCHEN, Sheriff of Langlade County, was born in the town of Lyndon, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, March 21, 1877, the son of Elizabeth (Hanke) Buchen and Goodhart Buchen. He attended the rural schools of Lyndon township after which he engaged as a farmer on his father's farm until he attained the age of nineteen years. He then engaged in the cheese and dairy business at Adell, Sheboygan County, for five years, selling his interests then to his brother, George Buchen. November 20, 1901, he moved to Antigo township, Langlade County, and started a cheese factory and creamery on Highway No. 47, what is commonly known as the "Howe Cheese Factory" site. This was the second factory in Langlade County at that time. For three years Mr. Buchen operated this industry successfully and then sold out. He then became the proprietor of the Star Creamery, a co-operative organization in Rolling township, which he was associated with for two years. He then moved into the city of Antigo, opening the Buchen Creamery on Fifth avenue, which he conducted until 1915 when he sold out to Andrew Anderson. Mr. Buchen then conducted a cheese factory at Kramer's corner in Antigo township for two years until his election for the first time to the office of Sheriff. Mr. Buchen's administration of that office was so satisfactory to the general public that he was re-elected in 1920 by an overwhelming vote. The office of Sheriff has been faithfully administered by him since and with his announcement for re-election in 1922 Mr. Buchen merely yielded to the requests of numerous friends.

Mr. Buchen was married to Ella Ferk, of the town of Sherman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, November 18, 1900. Three children, two of whom are deceased - Clarence Edward and Violet - and Hilda, a

During the war Mr. Buchen was active, serving as Chairman of the Langlade County Board of Exemption. He is a member of the B. P. 0. E. and Beavers fraternities. The Buchen family attend the Lutheran church.

PETER J. ROUiVIAN. Among the younger citizens of Antigo and Langlade County are many industrious and ambitious men who have ably demonstrated their fitness to carry on worthy commercial enterprises. Peter J. Rouman, who is, comparatively speaking, a new resident, can be classed with this group. Mr. Rouman is a native of Greece, the son of Helen and Gregory Rouman. He was born November 23, 1894. As a boy he attended the public schools of his birthplace and then entered high school. He was a postoffice clerk in Greece. When seventeen years old he sai'ed for America where he planned to settle. He went to Marquette, Michigan, and three months later came to Antigo to enter the employ of Peter Papadakis, an uncle, then conducting a confectionery in this city. Two years later he entered the popcorn and confectiorery business for himself. At the outbreak of the World War he entered the U. S. National Army and served with the 86th Division for nine months at Camp Hospital No. 21, overseas. Return- V ing to the U. S. he was honorably discharged at

Camp Grant on June 12, 1919. He had enlisted June 17, 1918. He then returned to his business at Antigo. May 1, 1921, he sold his popcorn interests and purchased the Helmbrecht Cafe, changing the name to the Antigo Cafe. This cafe is located at 827 Fifth avenue and enjoys a fine local and a splendid summer tourist patronage. Mr. Rouman was united in marriage in Antigo to Miss Esther Saunders on August 24, 1920. To this union one child, Dafney Helen, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Rouman reside at 827% Fifth avenue. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose.

ANTON J. NOWOTNY. Among the pioneer citi- W zens of Antigo and Langlade County is no more conspicuous a figure than Anton J. Nowotny, the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Anton J. Nowotny came to Antigo in the winter of 1878-79 with his widowed mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Nowotny. With his mother the young lad lived in Ackley township for six months on a homestead. Mr. Nowotny moved to this wilderness from Manitowoc County with his mother, his father having passed away in Manitowoc County in 1873. The subject of this sketch was born November 15, 1865.

With an older son he came to this county with his mother. The embryo town was then a place that gave little promise of reaching its present population of close to ten thousand inhabitants. Anton J. Nowotny was then thirteen years old and he roughed it through the years of his youth and early manhood. He performed all manner of manual labor as a boy.

serving as the janitor of the first Antigo school. Here he built fires and cut wood for the sum of six dollars a month. It should be stated that he went to school a part of the time, later attended night school and then entered St. Francis Academy at Milwaukee. He was variously employed at saw mill work, and at one time was active in contracting for the delivery of logs on the river. He also learned the cigar maker's trade and for a time ran a cigar factory, which, owing to the hard times then, he was compelled to close. He then took up a homestead in the town of Elcho on which he lived for about four years, and it was then that he was first elected Clerk of the Circuit Court fcr Langlade County, which office he has been honored with at each successive election since. This fact is a splendid testimonial of the esteem and confidence the public holds in Mr. Nowotny as a public servant, tried and found to be true.

In 1892 he was united in marriage to Theresa Boll of Antigo, Wis. To them were born eight children: Irwin, Clarence, Mary, Esther, Lester, Lloyd, Glen and Dorothy. Esther and Lester are twins. Irwin and Clarence were members of the 107th Trench Mortar Battery which served during the World War.

Anton J. Nowotny is a member of St. John's Catholic church and is fraternally a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is one of the substantial property owners of the community and, with his family, he holds a high place among the respected citizens.

ARTHUR J. KINGSBURY. One who has considered the pursuits of private life as abundantly worthy of his best efforts, and who has concentrated his interests, energies and attention upon his home county, has labored for its advancement and growth and at the same time has promoted his private interests so that he had attained a position of prestige among his fellow citizens is Arthur J. Kingsbury, the son of Alice (Paige) and John Jerome Kingsbury, pioneer Antigo residents. Mr. Kingsbury was born September 23, 1876, in Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin. When ten years old he moved with his parents to Ashland, Wisconsin, and a year later to Cornell, Wisconsin, from where the Kingsbury family moved to Antigo in 1890. Here Mr. Kingsbury attended public school and the high school, which was then located on the site of the Second Ward school. He then entered the Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Michigan, and after completing his course returned to Langlade County engaging in farming. He then moved to Boulder, Colorado, and worked in the oil fields, and the following years was at Bay City, Michigan, thence to the state of Kansas for two years; thence a year he spent in Oklahoma in the oil fields. He then returned to Antigo and opened up a field photography and kodak business, which he has since developed into an extensive enterprise.

Arthur J. Kingsbury was united in marriage on February 16, 1897, to Miss Myrtle Cunningham, of Antigo. To this union three children were born, as fol- lows: Claire, now engaged in the oil business at Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wayne, who passed away at the age of five; and Doris, a student in the Antigo public schools. Arthur J. Kingsbury is accounted one of the substantial and dependable business men of the city and county.

WALTER J. GALLON. Among the citizens of Langlade County who are rendering their community signal services both in a public and a commercial nature none stands in higher esteem than Walter J. Gallon, the alert President of the Antigo Association department of the Wisconsin Telephone Company in Milwaukee. He later became manager of the Janesville (Wis.) telephone industry, was then transferred to Chicago for a short duration following which he was promoted to the position of chief inspector of the Central Union Telephone Company, Dixon, 111. He returned to Wisconsin later to become the chief contract agent for the Wisconsin Telephone Company from where he was called to Sheboygan to become manager of the Sheboygan Telephone Company. In 1916 Mr. Gallon assumed the active management of the Antigo Telephone Corporation, which he still holds.

Walter J. Gai.Lox

WALTER J. GAI.LOX The President of the .Association of Commerce of .Antigo. General- Manager of the Antigo Telephone Corporation, and leader in community advancement played a prominent part in local activities during the late \A'orld War.

of Commerce and General Manager of the Antigo Telephone Corporation. Through marked ability and conscientious devotion to duty he has climbed from obscurity to a position of prominence in the telephone world.

Walter J. Gallon was born in England in 1873, the son of John Gallon. He received an elementary grammar school education and when a youth started out in life on his own merits. He came to the United States in 1896 and in the fall of that year came to Wisconsin. For three years he worked in various vocations until 1899 when he began in the construction

He has been active in all civic and commercial welfare movements in Antigo and it is to his credit that the present Antigo Association of Commerce was organized. He has been President of the Association of Commerce since its organization in 1916.

During the World War Mr. Gallon took an active part in all local activities, including the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Victory Fund, and other drives.

He gained distinction as a patriot during the war for his scathing denunciation of all things un-American. Mr. Gallon is a member of the Executive Committee, Antigo Chapter, American Red Cross.

Fraternally he is a member of all Masonic orders, including the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

JOHN SIPEK. The name of John Sipek has been y associated with activities in Langlade County since 1881. The father of the subject of this sketch, John Sipek, Jr., was born in Centerville township, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, on June 19, 1860, the son of Joseph and Anna (Rine) Sipek. He settled in Neva township, Langlade County, resided there some nine years, clearing about sixty acres. On February 8, 1885, he was married to Emma Skarivoda, a native of Manitowoc County, who was the daughter of Anton and Elizabeth (Krache) Skarivoda, who were among the pioneer settlers of Manitowoc County. During the spring of 1890 Mr. Sipek retired from his farm and purchased property in Antigo, where he kept a hotel, now known as Martiny's Hotel, Edison street.

John Sipek, Jr., was born in Antigo on July 5, 1893. He attended the public schools of Antigo and graduated from the Antigo High School with the class of 1912. He then started in the plumbing business and for nine months was associated with Joseph Hoefer. He then began as a journeyman plumber with Louis Peters and has since been with Mr. Peters in that business.

The Sipek family is regarded as one of the oldest Langlade County families, having been in the county four years before the city of Antigo was incorporated.

ENDRE NOREM. Among the pioneer families of Langlade County whose members have contributed materially to the progress and development of the county, none is more highly esteemed than that of Norem, whose history is commensurate with that of Price township. Endre Norem, the subject of this sketch, was born in Christiansand, Norway, on August 7, 1864. Like the Viking of old, young Norem wanted to sail the seas. He made three trips to the United States, the last one which he decided to locate in this country. Previously he had visited the West Indies and New Orleans. He settled in Brown County, at Ft. Howard, to where he came direct from New York. From there Mr. Norem went to Angelica, Shawano Count3^ Wisconsin, and secured employment in the woods. He settled in Price township, Langlade County, in September, 1889. He was employed for a time by N. C. Bruce at Kent as a bookkeeper. Mr. Bruce was then manager of the

Henry Sherry interests at that place. For eight years he followed this employment, until 1897. Mr. Norem then moved to Bryant and engaged in real estate, merchandise and a general logging business, which has, during the time since, flourished and expanded.

Mr. Norem was married in 1901 to Edna Mildred Mills, of Brown County, Wisconsin, to which union seven children - four boys and three girls - were born. Two of his sons served during the World War in the United States Navy, and Mr. Norem took an active part in all patriotic drives and campaigns in the county during the conflict. One son served on the battleship Nevada and the other in the U. S. N. aviation.

Endre Norem has served as postmaster of Bryant for a quarter of a century, longer than any other postmaster in Langlade County, and there are few who can equal this period of service. He was originally appointed by President William McKinley. He has been Township Treasurer and has held other positions of public trust.

In 1895 Mr. Norem became associated with F. H. Van Ostrand. His brother, Ernest Norem, became a member of the concern in 1898. Mr. Van Ostrand sold his interests to Norem Brothers in 1905. The concern was incorporated to do a mercantile, real estate and forest and farm produce business in 1904.

Fraternally Endre Norem is a member of the Masonic orders, the Elks and M. W. A. lodges. He is a typical example of what thrift, ambition, integrity and good character can do toward a successful career.

WILLIAM F. INGS, Superintendent of The Antigo Gas Company, was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, on June 6, 1884, the son of Henry and Ella (Fletcher) Irgs. He was the first of three children. When he was six weeks old he moved with his parents to the city of Antigo. Here he attended the public schools and the Antigo High School. Following his school days he began working on his father's farm in Antigo township and stayed there until 1907. He then began employment with the Antigo Gas Company, rising to the important position of Superintendent, which he now holds. It was managed by Oliver B. Kohl when Mr. Ings first started with the utility fifteen years ago.

William F. Ings was married to Bessie Horn, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Horn, on June 6, 1906, and to this union three children. Marvel, Maxine and John, have been born. The Ings residence is at 114 Field street, Antigo, Wisconsin.

When off duty Mr. Ings likes nothing better than rambling off to a sparkling trout stream or to spend a week in the timber during deer hunting season.

Henry Ings, pioneer Antigo township resident, was for many years a public official and served with credit as County Treasurer of Langlade County. The Ings family has a wide acquaintance in and about the county.

CHARLES E. HENSHAW. In the earlier history of this country, there are many notable accounts of the trials and brave sacrifices of those who are numbered among the industrial pioneers of certain districts. The tide of civilization was then ever moving westward, and as soon as a section of country was fairly developed, there would always be some venturesome and hardy souls eager to pass still farther toward the frontier, making new boundary lines for the outposts of civilization. Without these rugged people the United States would not today stretch from

Charles E. Henshaw was but a boy when, with his parents, he left his place of nativity in the Pan-Handle state, settling in Wooster, Ohio. The family moved successively from Ohio to Missouri, thence to Indiana and from there to Kansas, which was then in the threes of the great contest over organization precipitated by the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Returning to Indiana, the family located at Franklin, and it was here coast to coast, from the Canadian boundary to the gulf, but would be clustered along the seaboard of tht Atlantic. Among those who faced the perils of the west in this early period was the Henshaw family. Charles E. Henshaw, pioneer Antigo manufacturer, was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on September 14, 1849, the son of Anderson F. and Margaret (Busey) Henshaw. He was the second of two children, both of whom were boys.

At the outbreak of the Civil War Wharton, the other son, joined the L^nion Army, enlisting in Wilder's Mounted Infantry of Indiana when but fifteen years of that Charles received his education, consisting of the common school curriculum of that day, supplemented only by the fact that youths were largely dependent upon their own resourcefulness then.

At the age of fifteen, in the year 1864, he began work in the Premium Flour Mills of Franklin, being there employed for four years, during which time he thoroughly familiarized himself with the flour and grist business. From. 1868 until he became proprietor of his first flour mill, at Trafalgar, Indiana, Mr. Henshaw was employed in the flour business at various places in Indiana. In 1882, having closed his business at

Trafalgar, he began operations at Marcus, Iowa, and he was there until 1885. The Henshaw family then moved northward to Medford, Wisconsin, where the subject of this sketch entered the employ of the A. J. Perkins & Son flour mill. Mr. Henshaw had previously lost his entire business at Marcus, Iowa, in a disastrous fire.

His task of rehabilitation was difficult and for five years he stayed at Medford with the same concern. Becoming acquainted with John J. Kingsbury, a lumberman, the matter of a partnership was discussed and an organization effected prior to July, 1890, when the Henshaw family moved from Medford to Antigo. John J. Kingsbury and Charles E. Henshaw erected a grist mill in Antigo then. The firm was known as the Antigo Roller Mills. About seven years later the Kingsbury & Henshaw Lumber Company was organized and a sawmill, one of the substantial manufacturing institutions of Langlade County, was erected. The Company thrived and prospered, giving employment to many Antigo people, during the long span of years which was broken on August 2, 1917, by the untimely death of Mr. Kingsbury. The firm is now known as the Henshaw Lumber Company. For about two years after Mr. Kingsbury's death it was known as the Henshaw-Worden Lumber Company. The roller mills discontinued operations sometime previously.

Mr. Henshaw was married to Jennie Roberts, a daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Nelson) Roberts, of Carlisle, Indiana, on May 27, 1872, and to this union four children were born, namely: Louise, born on October 11, 1875. She was married to A. M. Arveson on September 11, 1901, and they had five children, all of whom are living. On October 18, 1920, Mrs. Arveson passed away in the prime of life. She is at rest in the Elmwood Cemetery, Antigo.

Jessie, the second child, was born on April 1, 1877, and on September 22, 1897, married C .W. Talge. They reside at Los Angeles, California.

Mabelle, born on March 20, 1890, was united in marriage to C. T. Te Selle, of Antigo, on October 11, 1916, and they have two children, Janette and Clarence John.

Anderson F. Henshaw passed away on October 11, 1888, and is buried at Medford, Wisconsin, where he died. Over a quarter of a century later his wife followed him in death, she passing away at Antigo on November 14, 1914. She is buried at Medford also. Charles E. Henshaw, besides his local business connections, is Vice President of the Talge Mahogany Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana; is a Director of the American Founders' Security Company and an Associate Director in the Old Line Life Insurance Company of America, the latter two organizations having headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mr. Henshaw finds no time to enter politics as a seeker after personal preferment but in 1901-02 he was inducted into service as an Alderman, being thereupon selected as Chairman of the City Finance Committee. In him good government and ideal citizenship have always found a staunch friend and supporter as do movements tending to advance the cause of education, civic enterprises, morality and general progress.

As an avocation he finds keen delight in spending a few days at his cottage on the shores of Post Lake, Wisconsin, or in whiling away an hour or two in some clear, sparkling trout stream, of which Langlade County has many.

ARCHIE SPENCER, a pioneer Antigo citizen, was born at Fremont, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, on September 3, 1874, the son of Benjamin and Pricilla Spencer. He moved to the village of Antigo when a youth, his parents being among the first settlers in Antigo. This was in the fall of 1881 when the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad pierced north to Aniwa and thence to Antigo. At that time James Quinn and a man by the name of Mr. Hahn hauled the worldly belongings of the Spencer family with two yokes of cattle to the place where the J. H. Weed mill was erected just south of the city of Antigo. Ben Spencer, the father of Archie Spencer, was foreman in the woods for various lumber concerns in Langlade County and Mrs. Ben Spencer cooked for the lumber concerns. In the year 1882 Ben Spencer bought two corner lots where the Hill building now stands (at the intersection of Fifth avenue and Edison street) from F. A. Deleglise, paying $33 apiece for the lots. Ben Spencer started the Spencer House, one of the leading Antigo hotels for many years, which was operated until 1895, when the Spencers sold to George W. Hill. Archie Spencer used to cut wood on the lots now the site of the Antigo postoffice.

As a youth Archie Spencer attended the public schools and the Antigo High School. He also attended Daggett's Business College, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Leaving school he followed the call of the woods, becoming an expert woodsman and river driver. He took part in many of the picturesque river drives of pioneer days when the great pineries were being slashed by the lumber barons of Wisconsin, many of whom in their greed for gold and pine left the country in a desolate state.

Archie Spencer was married to Mary Harvey of Shawano, Wisconsin, on July 12, 1895, and to this union ten children were born, namely: John, Harvey, Clyde, Clara, Pricilla, Wesley, Odean, Loean, Ida, May and William H.

Archie Spencer has found time to participate in public affairs besides attending to the arduous task of caring for a family. He was School Clerk in an Ainsworth township district, and while a resident of that township was once a town Supervisor. He was once a candidate for Sheriff on the Democratic ticket and secured that party's nomination for that office. Fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During 1922 he was engaged in farming on two hundred acres in Elton township on sections 7 and 8.

THOMAS W. LESLIE, whose name in Langlade County is the synonym of progressiveness, liberality and honesty of purpose, has been a resident of this county for over forty years during which time he has built himself up an honored reputation and a good name.

Mr. Leslie is a native of Hortonville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, where he was born on August 24, 1856, the son of Hugh and Dorothy (McComb) Leslie, who were the parents of eight children.

The subject of this review attended the rural schools of Hortonville, having received a common school education. He then began to make his own way in the world and became a well driller and pump dealer. He followed this occupation in and adjacent to Hortonville until 1879 when he came to Langlade County. Until 1883 he was associated with Niels Anderson, the first merchant of Antigo, in the well drilling and pump business. Retiring from the pump business in 1883, Mr. Leslie devoted his entire attention to his farm in Antigo (Springbrook township). When he secured his farm it was in control of Shawano County as New County was then attached to that county for county and judicial purposes. He moved into the city of Antigo from Antigo township in 1891 and has since been a resident of the city, where he has been engaged in the real estate and loan business for thirty-one years. He has also spent considerable time in looking over lands and conducting logging operations during winter months.

Thomas W. Leslie was united in marriage to Miss Anna Dvorak, the daughter of Frank and Philomena Dvorak. To this union six children were born, two of whom are deceased. Those living are Blanche, now Mrs. Edward Lackerman, of Rolling township, Langlade County; Robert, now at Hiles, Forest County, Wisconsin; Myra, now Mrs. Joseph Scholey, of Los Angeles, California; and Mabel, of Antigo, Wisconsin.

The Leslie residence Is at 1444 Clermont street, Antigo, Wisconsin. Fraternally he is a member of the Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity and the Equitable Fraternal Union. During pioneer days Mr. Leslie operated a general store at Deerbrook for a short time. This was one of the first stores in that part of the county. He had previously been associated with a brother, Sam Leslie, in a store at Tigerton, Wisconsin.

During the World War the Leslie family did its part. Robert was a member of the 22nd Base Hospital, U. S. A., and served from May 27, 1917, to April 23, 1919. He was overseas from June 2, 1918, to April 2, 1919. Mabel E. Leslie served as a nurse, having enlisted on November 11, 1919.

HUGH B. MUTTART, a prominent Antigo merchant, was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, on August 22, 1882, the son of William and Helen (McCarthy) Muttart. William Muttart was born in Canada and Helen McCarthy Muttart was a native of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, where the McCarthy family was among the early pioneers of the district. The father followed the trade of a well driller in the state for many years until his death in March, 1911.

H. B. Muttart was reared in Oshkosh where he attended the public schools. He followed the printer's trade for four years following his public school career. He then went to Milwaukee to take up the study of embalming under Professor Williams in his College of Embalming. Returning to Oshkosh he successfully passed the state examinations and in 1904 he located at Antigo in the undertaking and embalming business. In this work he continued alone until 1912 when a consolidation of three well known Antigo business houses took place, forming the Antigo Furniture & Undertaking Company, of which Mr. Muttart became President. A. D. Stewart and Rudolph Kratche were the other members of the original firm. This firm progressed and made an excellent showing in the business. In the fall of 1918 T. T. McGillan of Appleton became a member of the firm, which has since been known as Muttart & McGillan Furniture and Undertaking Company.

H. B. Muttart was married in 1908 to Miss Mary Hoffman, daughter of Joseph Hoffman, proprietor of The Hoffman House. Two children, Helen and Mary, have been born to them. H. B. Muttart is a member of the Roman Catholic church, as is his wife and children. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, The Loyal Order of Moose.

PAUL J. MILLARD, former Postmaster, and now Assistant Postmaster, was born on June 23, 1859, at Wausau, Wisconsin, the son of Burton and Harriet (Crown) Millard. He received a common school education. When a young man he came to Antigo, in August, 1882, from Wausau, and, with his brother, A. B. Millard, a prominent pioneer, became the proprietor of The Weekly News Item, serving as one of the owners until 1893. He served as Postmaster from April 23, 1893, to June 30, 1897, and on July 21, 1901, was appointed Assistant Postmaster, which position he has served in since.

Mr. Millard has been a member of the City Council and also a member of the Board of Education. Fraternally he is a charter member of Antigo Lodge No. 231, F. & A. M.; Antigo Chapter No. 64, R. A. M., and Antigo Commandery No. 31, K. T.

He was married on December 26, 1884, at Royalton, Wisconsin, to Hattie M. Waite. Four children w<-re born to this union, Glenn E., Arnold B. (deceased), Paul V. and Harriet E.

HENRY BERNER. The history of Langlade County would be incomplete without a resume of the life activities of Henry Berner, the President of Berner Brothers Publishing Company. He was born in the town of Gibson, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, on June 10, 1878, the son of Henry and Caroline Berner. When five years of age he moved with his parents to Antigo where he attended the public schools and the Antigo High School. Leaving school he began his career as an employe for the Weekly News Item and was with that publication for three years. It was then located where Mrs. A. R. Winters now has her grocery store. Mr. Berner then secured employment on The Antigo Republican and was with that paper from 1895 until 1899 when he went to Columbus, Wisconsin, where, with his brother, Fred L. Berner, he took over the Columbus Democrat. He returned to Antigo in 1901 and with his brother took over the Antigo Journal, then a weekly paper, purchasing the same from George W. Hill. The Journal has grown to be one of the best news and advertising mediums of a teacher in the Menasha public schools; Henry, Jr., a student at the University of Wisconsin; Artemus, of Antigo; Thelma, a student; Lynn, who passed away on October 4, 1922, following fatal injuries received in an automobile accident; Leland, who died on October 5, 1908. Both Lynn and Leland are buried in the Antigo cemetery.

Fraternally Mr. Berner is affiliated with The Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity, The Knights of Pythias, The Modern Woodmen of America and the Sons of Veterans. He is the Secretary of the Langlade County Fair Association, and for twelve years, (1910-

Henry Berner

HENRY BERNER President and General Manager of Berner Brothers Publishing Company has been a strong asset to that leading firm, which has forged ahead commensurate with the progress of .'\ntigo and vicinity.

this section of the state through the business principles that the brothers followed during the span of twenty years they have had charge of The Journal. Mr. Berner is now the general manager of the large printing plant at 533 Superior street.

Henry Berner was united in marriage to Elizabeth Yeager, of Marshfield, on December 19, 1899. To this union six children were born. They are Dorothy, now

1922), was oil inspector for this district. He is also a member of the Antigo Association of Commerce. The Berner residence is at 423 Tenth avenue, Antigo.

A. H. BERENDSEN is one of the oldest and most respected citizens in Langlade County. He was born in the town of Freedom, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on July 25, 1869. He came to Langlade County from the town of Freedom on November 10, 1882, with three cows and five head of young stock. A yoke of oxen were hitched to his heavy wagon. Twelve days later he arrived at the Henry Hersant farm, Norwood township. Because of difficulties with the cattle it was necessary for him to leave the cattle at a place owned by Joseph Schnorich, now the site of the E. E. Hemingway home at Mattoon, Wisconsin.

John Menting and Gerard Berendsen made the trip with the subject of this sketch. With no roads and about a sixteen inch fall of snow it was difficult for these sturdy pioneers to find their way about.

The father of Mr. Berendsen, Theodore Berendsen, homesteaded on section 25, township 30, range 12 east. This place has since been known as the Bernard Berendsen farm and is situated one-half mile east of Phlox.

Mr. Berendsen recalls well when in the spring of 1883 he came in to Antigo with a yoke of oxen to do some trading at the Niels Arderson store, the first store in Antigo. He also went over to the depot to see a train pull into Antigo - then this was considered an event of great importance (the approach of an airplane is regarded with less significance by Antigo people now).

Mr. Berendsen stayed on the homestead for sometime helping clear land, until he was sixteen years of age. Then as his parents were in need of some money he went to work at the carpenter trade. He earned ten dollars per month and board. He later secured work from Joseph St. Louis and son, Frank St. Louis, who had a mill at Phlox. After working there until the fall of 1888 he went to work for the Mattoon Manufacturing Company putting in bridges and culverts on the railroad between Mattoon and Aniwa. He was employed as camp foreman, carpenter and lumber inspector until the spring of 1898. He then entered the employ of G. B. Lesch as a lumber inspector and was with him until he went out of business in this territory, in the fall of 1900. Mr. Berendsen then entered the employ of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Appleton, Wisconsin, on November 1, 1900, and was with them until January 1, 1921, a period of twenty years and two months. He has been dealing in lands and forest products on his own initiative since.

Mr. Berendsen was married to Rosalia M. Hones at Phlox on June 2, 1921. He is a Catholic by faith and fraternally is affiliated with the B. P. 0. E. and the Catholic Order of Foresters. The Berendsen family moved from Mattoon to Antigo in June, 1899, and has resided here since. A. H. Berendsen, during these many years, has won the respect and confidence of a score of citizens.

WILLIAM READER. Former Assemblyman and Register of Deeds, was born in Stockbridge township, Calumet County, May 16, 1864, son of John Reader. He moved with his parents to Menominee, where the family stayed for one year. August 20, 1882, he moved to Ackley township (now Peck township) where he settled on a farm. Here he held several responsible town offices, including the Chairmanship of Peck township for seven years. In 1900 he was elected Register of Deeds of Langlade County. Then he sold his farm and moved into Antigo. He served with credit as Register of Deeds from January, 1901, to 1909, when he was elected a member of the Assembly. Mr. Reader framed the bill making Langlade a separate Assembly district and Marathon and Langlade Counties a Senatorial district in 1911. Mr. Reader purchased the Market Square Hotel in 1913 from the Langlade Bank and has been its proprietor since.

This hotel is the reconstructed Springbrook House, pioneer Antigo "stopping place of 79". Mr. Reader was married June 11, 1892, at Wrightstown, Outagamie County, to Mary McCabe. Three sons, John, George and Merritt, and one daughter, Irene, were born to this union. All three sons are veterans of the World War. Mr. Reader is a member of the Catholic Foresters and the American Hotel Association. He is an upright business man, a fearless advocate for those things that tend to benefit the community, and is highly regarded by scores of friends throughout the county.

PERRY McINTOSH. Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, May 13, 1895, son of Charles and Viola Mcintosh. Came to Antigo in 1915. Married Mary Poinkowski September 8, 1919, to which union two children have been born, a boy and a girl. Employed as brakeman with the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Noted wrestler of middle west. Has engaged in wrestling bouts with such able men as John Meyers, Louis Talaber, Wjonne Kattoonin, Witt, Sanders, Alex Kazaan, Sam Chapman, British champion. Van Worden of Canada, Kid Sperenio of Illinois, Bob Langford of Virginia. Total matches engaged in is 156 with between six to eight that were lost. His first match was in 1913 with Alex Kazaan, whom he defeated.

Mr. Mcintosh is a member of Antigo Council No. 1002 K. of C, and of Antigo Lodge 662 B. P. O. E. In wrestling he was trained under George and Fred Belle, who was once world champion, having defeated Frank Gotch.