Marathon County, Wisconsin - Chapter 35, 1913 (part 2 of 10)

And Representative Citizens 625 Granville Duane Jones

Like most men who achieve success in early manhood, G. D. Jones was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, nor was he bedded on roses in his childhood days. He had to work for his education, earn it by hard work on the farm. After passing through the vocation of teacher, and being admitted to the bar, and having practiced his profession for some years, it was then that his real work of an organizer of business enterprises began. His practice took him o\er nearly the whole of the northern part of the state, brought him in contact with people of all sorts, lumbennen, merchants, and settlers on homesteads, and being gifted with a keen observation, he acquired a thorough knowledge of the resources of the country, and the bright future for the uncultivated region of central and northern Wisconsin, which only awaited the hand of development to bring forth a rich harvest. His reputation for honesty and application to work stood him in hand when he first undertook to persuade men of means to interest themselves with him w^ith a view of developing the resources of this region. To work in concert, to raise capital and entrust it to the management of others, as must of necessity be done by corporations, was entirely a new idea. Up to this time each man conducted his business independent of any other, so far as his means would permit but to put their means together and work in concert had not occurred to any one. Indeed there was too much jealousy, especially among the old group of lumbermen, to work together. It is to the credit of G. D. Jones that he overcame that jealousy - that distrust of one against the other - and that he succeeded in combining many of the business men and capitalists of Wausau and in other cities, and inducing them to invest together in new and profitable enterprises. That is the so-called "Wausau Spirit ;" the working together for common benefits, and G. D. Jones is probably the first man in the Wisconsin valley who succeeded in giving expression to and awakening this spirit. It must not be believed that there was unlimited capital at his disposal : on the contrary, there was not. But by the coming and working together, with many men, each with some capital, great results were accomplished, as witness the many business enterprises in which he is interested with many others. One of his first business organizations is the G. D. Jones I, and Company, which owned over 30,000 acres of rich farm lands in ]\Iarathon count}' and sells them on easy terms to actual settlers. Many men have profited by the inducements held out by this company to become independent and wealthy by honest labor just as the pioneers of old have done, and they have bright prospects before them. Not only is this company dealing in absolute good faith with purchasers, but assists settlers by helping them to good roads and schools and in every way. In making municipal improvements, he has been in the front ranks, assisting every movement by personal effort and his spirit of generosity is never appealed to in vain for any good cause.

His appointment and reappointment as regent of the university was a deserved tribute to one of the public-spirited citizens of northern Wisconsin, who in spite of his business activity, has given much of his time and best thoughts to education. In the following is a list of the enterprises in which he is a director, in nearly all of which he was connected since their founding and who owe its existence in a large measure to his own talent and persuasion for organization.

G. D. Jones is a member of the law firm of Hurley & Jones, at ^^'ausau. He was born at Harrisburg, Lewis county, New York, and is a son of Marcus S. and Orpha (Allen) Jones. He is of New England descent, none of his ancestors having immigrated to the American colonies later than 1700. His father died of typhoid fever in 1S71, aged forty-five years, and his mother died in i860, aged thirty years. In the spring of 1872 Mr. Jones came to the town of BjTon, Fond Du Lac county. Wis., and hade his home with his uncle, Daniel D. Jones, who was a farmer in that town. He attended the country schools, and taught in the Fond Du Lac district schools two winters, and entered the L^niversity of Wisconsin as a special student in the fall of 1878. He took the scientific course at the university and graduated there with the class of 1882, after which for two years he was principal of the Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, high school. He came to Wausau in June, 1884, and entered the office of Silverthorn, Hurley & Ryan as a law student. He was admitted to the bar in July. 1886, and at once entered the law finn of Silverthorn. Hurley, Ryan & Jones, and continued in the active practice of law with that firm until 1897, when Mr. Silverthorn became circuit judge. Mr. Ryan retired from the firm in 1902 and the finn of Hurley & Jones has since continued the business. Mr. Jones is a member of the county, state and American bar associations. For several Yta.vs Mr. Jones' personal business interests and those of his firm have precluded his active practice of his profession. He has been largely interested in timber and lands, is secretary and treasurer of the G. D. Jones Land Company, the Jones-Hart Land Company, the Wright Land Company. Jones- Anderson Timber Company and the Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company and all of its subsidiary companies. He is secretary of the Walter Alexander Timber Company and the Neal Brown Land Company, and is a director of the First National Bank of Wausau, the Wausau Street Railroad Company, the Wausau Telephone Company, the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Company, the Watab Pulp & Paper Company, the Virginia & Rainy Lake Company of Minnesota, Peth Candy Company, the John Kiefer Furniture Company, Wausau Fixture & Furniture Company, Great Northern Life Insurance Company, and the Employers' Mutual Liability Insurance Company.

^Ir. Jones has taken a large interest in public matters and for nearly twenty consecutive years has been a member of the Board of Education, and for the last seventeen years has been president of the board. He is and for about twelve years last past has been a member of the Fire and Police Commission.

In July, 1887, Mr. Jones was married to ]\Iiss Evelyn A. Jones, of Fond Du Lac, Wis., and they have four daughters: Orpha E., now Mrs. Ralph W. Collie, who is a graduate of Vassar College; Phoebe E. and Ellen M., both of whom are now students at Vassar College, and Hester M., who is a student of Milwaukee-Downer College. The family attend the Baptist church. Since February, 1909, Mr. Jones has been a member of the Board of Regents of the Wisconsin State University. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and is also a member of the Elks and of the Equitable Fraternal Union. He belongs to the University Club at Madison, to the Wausau City Club and the Wausau Country Club. Mrs. Jones is a conspicuous member of the Civic Improvement League, of the Ladies' Literary Club and several of the benevolent societies of W^ausau.

Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey

Cyrus C. Yawkey, who has made his home in Wausau since 1899, has been one of the rnost valuable acquisitions to this city in later years, not only socially, but from an industrial and financial point of view as well. Since his advent here he has interested himself practically in all of the large industrial enterprises which have had their birth in the last fifteen years and which make Wausau the industrial center of the Wisconsin valley. Not only did his active interest in these concerns enable them to perfect their organization, but the implicit confidence of the people of means in his business acumen, experience and integrity caused them to associate themselves willingly with the enterprises and assist in furnishing the means which were needed to set in motion the wheels of industry. To show to what an extent Mr. Yawkey is engaged in business in Wausau and Marathon county, it is only necessary to mention his connection with the following industrial and financial concerns : President of the Yawkey Lumber Company ; president of the Marathon Paper Mills Company at Rothschield; vice president of the Wausau Paper Mills Company at Brokaw; vice president of the Wausau Street Railroad Company; director of the National German- American Bank; vice president of the Wausau Quartz Company; and vice president of the Great Northern Life Insurance Company, besides being financially interested in others.

Mr. Yawkey comes from a race of lumbermen. His grandfather, John H. Yawkey, was engaged in the lumber business near Massillon, Ohio, in the early forties, and his father, Samuel W. Yawkey, was a pioneer lumberman of Michigan, having gone into the Saginaw valley in 1850. The family moved to Chicago in 1858, where Samuel \V. Yawkey engaged in the lumber trade, and it was during the family's residence there that the subject of this sketch was born on August 29, 1862. In 1864 the family returned to Michigan and established a home at East Saginaw.

Cyrus C. Yawkey attended the public schools until 1879. He then entered the Michigan ^Military Academy at Orchard Lake, Mich., from whicli he graduated in 1881, and immediately after graduation turned his attention to business. He first entered a hardware store as clerk and by the time he had attained his majority he had sufficiently mastered the business to engage in it on his own account, forming a partnership under the name of Yawkey & Corbyn, which was successfully carried on for five years. While at East Saginaw he identified himself with the Michigan National Guard, serving first as Captain of Co. E, 3d Regiment, and later as major of the same regiment, but subsequent business cares, both public and private, induced him to withdraw from military life.

In 1889 he moved to Wisconsin and, with his uncle, W. C. Yawkey, and George W. Lee, organized the Yawkey & Lee Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Yawkey Lumber Company in 1893. The company built a plant in Oneida county and founded the village of Hazelhurst. where Mr. Yawkey lived until he moved to ^^'ausau in 1899. The Yawkey Lumber Company owned and operated saw and planing mills and a box factory at Hazelhurst until 1905, and it is estimated that not less than 350,000,000 feet of lumber were manufactured there during that time. When the company was organized, Mr. Yawkey became its treasurer and general manager, and later was made president. The Hazelhurst & South Eastern Railway Company was also formed and the road built and Mr. Yawkey has been its president up to the present time. The success of the Yawkey Lumber Company was directly due to the personal efiforts of Mr. C. C. Yawkey. He pur- chased the timber and for seventeen years conducted the logging operations and the manufacturing and selling of the lumber. Through his efforts and business foresight the company not only became the owner of vast tracts of timber in Wisconsin, but also acquired large tracts of yellow pine timber in the south and white pine regions in Oregon.

The Yawkey Lumber Company finished cutting its timber in Wisconsin in 1905 and a new company was organized, the Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company, which took over the plant at Hazelhurst and also acquired a plant at Arbor Vitae, Vilas county, ^^^is., Mr. Yawkey being made president of the new company. The Yawkey-Bissell Luml^er Company has operated these two plants continuously since the date of their purchase and has manufactured about 70,000,000 feet of lumber each year.

From 1891 to 1893 Mr. Yawkey served as chairman of the county board of Oneida county, and in 1894 was elected member of assembly for the district, composed of the counties of Oneida, Price, Vilas and Taylor, and took an influential part in the legislation of that session.

Mr. Yawkey's business interests are manifold and varied, as may be seen from the following official positions in business concerns which he holds outside of Marathon county: president of the Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company, with mills at Hazelhurst and Arbor Vitae, \\'is. ; president of the Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Company, which owns and operates retail yards in southern Wisconsin, with main office in Madison, Wis. ; vice president of Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company, with mills at Malvern, Ark. ; director of McCloud River Lumber Company, with mills at McCloud, Calif. ; director of ^Marshall & Illsley Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. ; director of \Vausau Southern Lumber Company, with mills at Laurel, Miss. ; secretary and treasurer of Cisco Lake Lumber Company, which owns large tracts of hardwood and hemlock land in Michigan; president of Globe Mining Company, which owns valuable iron ore land near Birmingham, Ala. ; and president of Hazelhurst Land Company.

Cyrus C. Yawkey is not only one of the most prominent but also one of the most popular business men of Wausau. He has long been interested in Masonry, is a Knight Templar, and has attained the thirty-third degree. He is also widely known in trade and social organizations. His military education is shown by his courtly bearing in speech and manners. He is charitable and generous, though rendering his aid in silence, but many public and charitable organizations can testify to his generosity. He was married to Miss Alice M. Richardson, at x\nn Arbor, Mich., October 13, 1887, and one daughter has come to bless their marriage, Leigh, now Mrs. Aytchmonde P. Woodson. He has one of the finest residences in the city, where his many friends are always welcome.

Hon. Andrew Lawrence Kreutzer

Of the younger set of men who became prominent in the political and business life of Marathon county, none achieved more distinction than Hon. A. L. Kreutzer. After entering public life as district attorney, having been elected as a Republican in a strong Democratic county, he rose steadily to higher honors. Elected as senator for the twenty-fifth senatorial district of Wisconsin, composed of the counties of Marathon and Clark, he encountered the opposition, not only of the Democratic party, but of a faction of his own party, because of his refusal to yield blindly to the behest of some self -constituted party leader, and evincing a commendable spirit of independence in matters not strictly party affairs. His course having been vindicated by a second nomination and reelection to that high office, he withdrew from political life after the expiration of his second temi, for a time at least, giving his undivided attention to the organization and the management of the business of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company, in which he was singularly successful.

The establishment of the Marathon County Training School for teachers and the Agricultural School is his work, for which he cannot be too highly commended. He belongs to that class of young men who are pushing ahead in public business affairs to make ^^''ausau and Marathon county one of the wealthiest in the state.

He was born in Germantown. Wis., August 30, 1862, a son of Andrew Kreutzer. In 1865 his father removed with his family to Grafton, Wis., where he was engaged in the milling and lime business, remaining there until 1879. He then removed to Athens in this county, being accompanied by twenty-five or thirty young men, residents of Grafton, who assisted him in building the first sawmill at Athens. He was a pioneer of that locality and was interested with Johnson, Rietbrook & Halsey, who were the owners of large tracts of timber lands in the western part of the county. He established a large farm, the old homestead of which is now within the limits of Athens, and in which one of his sons now resides. He came to an untimely death in 1896, owing to an explosion of dynamite. Of his family of nine sons and three daughters all are now living with the exception of two.

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state and taught school from 1884 to 1888. He commenced the study of law in Wausau, to which city he came in 1888, attended the State University in 1889 and 1890, being admitted to practice in the latter year. He is a senior member of the well known law firm of Kreutzer, Bird, Rosenberry & Okoneski, president of the Bank of Athens, president of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company, and connected with many other business enterprises. He is a member of a good many social clubs. A Republican in politics, he has taken a prominent part in the councils of his party and has served as a member of the Legislature, as State Senator. Few men are better known or have taken a more prominent part in promoting the commercial development of this section.

In 1 89 1 Mr. Kreutzer was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Knox, daughter of Samuel Knox, who was then engaged in the lumber business in the city of Wausau. They have two children living - Ruth Knox Kreutzer and Samuel Knox Kreutzer. Mrs. Kreutzer, a graduate of the State University herself, is a prominent member of the Ladies' Tuesday Musical Club, of the Ladies' Literary Society, and also of the Ladies' Club of her church society.

Hon. Ernst C. Zimmerm.'Xnn

The public and private career of this gentleman furnishes a striking example that a young man without pecuniary means can still make an honorable career in life, if he has the industry, integrity and intelligence, coupled with the perseverance needed to accomplish that result. E. C. Zimmemiann came from the city of Eau Claire, where he had been in an insurance office, and started out in the same business for himself after coming to Wausau in 1878. For two years he conducted it alone, meanwhile becoming acquainted and making friends by his gentlemanly bearing. Having shown his capacity to succeed in business, he accepted an offer of H. L. Wheeler, an old established insurance man, to associate with him and the firm of Wheeler & Zimmermann became the leading insurance firm in the city and county. Later he was offered and accepted the position of assistant cashier of the Marathon County Bank, the oldest banking institution in the county, soon afterwards was made cashier, and has been in that capacity now for twenty years. This bank was founded by J- A. Famham as the Bank of the Interior in the early years of Marathon county, and always has been a sound and safe institution.

Ever since coming into manhood, E. C. Zimmennann has acted with the Democratic party politically and has been frequently pressed into service, always giving a good account of himself and served with distinction in every trust imposed upon him. He was twice elected as supervisor, representing his constituency in the city council as well as in the county board, and at the expiration of his tenn was elected as mayor of the city twice, in 1888 and 1889, and again elected to that important position in 1904. He had the honor of being named as an elector at large on the Democratic national ticket in 1908, and was elected as an elector for the Eighth Congressional District of Wisconsin in 1912 on the Wilson and Marshall ticket, the only Democratic elector from Marathon county who ever cast a vote directly for a Democratic president.

His fidelity to every trust imposed in him is evidenced by the fact of his frequent elections to positions all of which exact integrity and accuracy in keeping and accounting of funds. He is treasurer of the Marathon County Agricultural Society, treasurer of the Humane Society, treasurer of the Wausau Children's Infinnary, and a number of other societies. He still holds an interest in the insurance business of Zimmermann & Rowley, and is financially interested in other enterprises. His public service also covers years as member of the board of education of the city of Wausau and as a member of the board of trustees of the public library.

He was elected president of the Wisconsin State Bankers' Association, and vice president of the American Bankers' Association, lately held in Denver, Colo. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the fraternity of Odd Fellows, being a trustee of Wausau Lodge 215, and for two years was the state representative of the latter organization to the Sovereign Grand Lodge when the sessions were held in Toronto, Can., and St. Paul, Minn.

Mr. Zimmermann was bom in Germany. August 31, 1857, and is a son of Frederick and Beatrice (Schulz) Zimmermann. He came with his parents to the L^nited States in 1869 and for the first year after arrival they lived at Waterloo, Wis., then removed to the city of Eau Claire, where they subsequently died. He was married December 26, 1881, to Miss Minnie Marth, of the town of Hamburg in Marathon county, and three children were born to them to bless tlieir union : Beatrice, who is a teacher in the high school in Wausau; Olga, another daughter, who resides at home; and Alfred, w'ho is in the insurance business with his father. The latter was married to Miss Lora Harris, of Rochester, N. Y., and they have one daughter, Elizabeth. E. C. Zimmermann and his family are members of the St. Paul's Evangelical church congregation of W^ausau, rendering much aid to the several societies connected with this church.

And Representatr'E Citizens 633 Hon. W. H. Mylrea

Hon. W. H. Alylrea has been mentioned as one of the prominent members of the Marathon county bar. He was a student of Lawrence College and after graduation studied law in the office of Jonathan Bowman in Kilbourn City. He was admitted to the bar in the year 1879, and coming to Wausau in 1883, formed a partnership with C. V. Bardeen under the firm name of Bardeen & Mylrea. He took great interest in political affairs and from 1884 until 1900 was much in demand as a speaker for the Republican party, several times making a complete canvass of the state in its behalf. In 1886 he was elected district attorney of Marathon county, and in 1894 attorney general on the Republican ticket, and reelected in 1896. After the expiration of his tenn of office he returned to ^^^ausau and retired from the practice of his profession in 1902. devoting his time and energy to real estate business and lumbering. He is president of the Langlade County Real Estate Company, president of the Wausau Land Company, secretary of the Holway Land Company, and a director of the Wausau Box Company, and secretary of the Wisconsin Advancement Association, which latter concern makes it their business to advertise the farm lands of central and northern Wisconsin, and show the advantages to the man of limited means which Wisconsin offers compared with other states. In later years Mr. Mylrea has made addresses before many large and representative bodies in furtherance of the work of the Wisconsin Advancement Association, which already begins to show good results in bringing good substantial settlers to the still uncultivated lands in this part of the state.

W. H. IMylrea was born at Rochester. N. Y., January i, 1853, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1856. He was married to Miss Minnie Ostrandor on November 12, 1884, and one son, James D.. was born to them.

A. H. GROUT, cashier of the First National Bank of Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1875 and for the past thirty-seven years has devoted himself in a business v^^ay to banking interests. He was born August 11, 1851, in the province of Quebec, Canada, and is a son of E. P. and Tryphosa (Stone) Grout.

The parents of Mr. Grout were also born in Canada and came to Wisconsin in 1863. The father located at Omro, in Winnebago county and followed agricultural pursuits in that locality until he retired to Wausau, where his death occurred, his wife having passed away in Canada. They had six children to grow to maturity, four daughters and two sons, the family record being as follows : A. M. ; Abigail, Matilda, Harriet and Rachel ; and Frank, who was connected with the First National Bank at Wausau for some years, is now in the employ of a bank at Seattle, Wash.

A. H. Grout began school attendance in his native place and completed it after his father located at Omro, Wis., being then prepared for work on the home farm and also in a saw mill. Later he was bookkeeper for a time at Menasha, Wis., where his ability and fidelity were so recognized that in April, 1875, he was called to a similar position with the firm of Silverthorn & Plumer, at Wausau. When the business was reorganized in 1882 and the institution became the First National Bank, he was elected cashier and has served continuously as such until the present, limiting his interests, to a large degree, to financial matters in this connection.

In 1879 Mr. Grout was married to Miss Eva Shaunessy, of Wausau, a daughter of George Shaunessy, who enlisted from this city for service in the Civil War and died after becoming a veteran. Mrs. Grout died in Wausau, in 1887, and a son survived, Horace Clyde. He is Ass't Gen. Supt. Atlantic Division of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and at present is located at St. John, N. B., his territory covering a part of Quebec, Maine, and New Brunswick. He married Miss Mary Curley and they have two children: Mary Eva and Robert Clyde. In October, 1888, Mr. Grout was married (second) to Miss Mary Rounds, a daughter of W. P. Rounds, of Menasha, Wis. They have one daughter, Edith, who attended school at Wausau, and in California, and then became a student in Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. Mr. Grout and family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Wausau and he belongs to its official board. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. He is a Chapter Mason and for a number of years has been treasurer of both Blue Lodge and Chapter. He is a charter member of the Wausau City Club and also of the Y. M. C. A., and was a member of the first building committee appointed by this organization, and has continued his deep interest until the present.

WILLIAM C. LANDON, a prominent resident of Wausau, Wis., has been identified with the lumber industry all his active business life and is recognized as one of the progressive and thoroughly informed men along this and related lines. He was born at Algonac, Mich., August 11, 1872, and is a son of George W. and Sarah Landon.

William C. Landon spent his boyhood on his father's farm and attended the public schools during the winter seasons. In 1894 he came to Wausau and entered the employ of the firm of Barker & Stewart, lumbermen, and for two years worked in the yards, his main duty being piling lumber. In the meanwhile he had succeeded in taking a course in a business college at Wausau and thus was able to give satisfaction in tlfe company's office, where, in three years' time he was advanced to the position of office manager. In 1904, when the Barker & Stewart Li^imber Company was incorporated, Mr. Landon was elected its vice president, and following the death of Mr. Barker, January i, 1908, he was made president, a responsible office which he ably fills. As the head of his company he continues the conservative timber policy that has been the company's custom since he first became identified with it. The mill owns a seven years' supply of timber and its future operation, in regard to supply, may easily be considered a matter of at least a quarter of a century. While his main interest is the management of the affairs of the Barker & Stewart Lumber Company, he has other enterprises in hand and is secretary of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Company an immense paper plant at Mosinee for the manufacture of craft paper, hemlock being the principal wood used in this industry. He is held in high esteem by all lumber bodies in the northwest and served as president of the North-

At Wausau, Wis., Mr. Landon was married to Miss Annie Mclnnis, of this city, and they have one son, George Crawford. Mr. Landon is one of the directors of the Great Northern Insurance Company and of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Company. Socially he is identified with the Wausau Club, of which he was president in 1911-1912. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.

FRANCIS McREYNOLDS, who is one of the prominent and substantial citizens of Mosinee, Wis., president of the village and financially and officially connected with many of Marathon county's enterprises, was born at Batavia, N. Y., September 24, 1859, and is a son of James and Maria (Emerson) McReynolds. About 1861 the parents of Mr. Mc- Reynolds removed from New York to Milwaukee, Wis., where the father followed the carpenter trade during his active years and subsequently died there. The mother still is a resident of Milwaukee. They had three children : Francis ; Harriet, who is the wife of J. B. Whitnell ; and W. H.

Francis McReynolds attended the public schools and later completed a commercial course in a business college at Milwaukee, following which he had eight years of mercantile training in a dry goods store in that city. He then came to Mosinee as bookkeeper for the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, this being in 1878, and still continues his interest in the above concern. He is secretary and one of the stockholders of the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Company; is secretary and treasurer of the Westfield and Fall River Lumber Company, and of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Company and a stockholder in both the Electric Light and the Mosinee Telephone Company.

On April 13, 1887, Mr. McReynolds was married to Miss Marie Martin, a daughter of Victor and Harriet Martin, of Grand Rapids, the other members of their family being: William, George, Joseph, Leon, deceased, and Harriet, who is the wife of William P. Westenberg. Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds had one daughter, Helen F., who was called away in 1909, when aged twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds attend the Episcopal church. A Republican in politics, Mr. Reynolds has been tendered many political offices but has accepted only those local in character and for eighteen years has been a member of the school and library boards.

JOHN A. ROWLEY, whose large business interests at Wausau are in the insurance line, is the junior member of the well known firm of Zimmerman & Rowley, with convenient offices in the Marathon County Bank building. He was born in England, December ii, 1869, a son of James Rowley and wife, the former of whom died in 1904, at Philadelphia, Pa., where the latter yet resides.

John A. Rowley attended school in his native land and was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to America. They located in the city of Philadelphia and the youth soon secured employment as a bookkeeper with a carpet house and continued there for seven years, afterward turning his attention to the insurance business and accepting an agency in an insurance office at New Rochelle, N. Y. For twelve years Mr. Rowley was associated with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and became one of that great organization's valued employes, was rapidly promoted and became a superintendent at Des Moines, la., and also at Chicago, 111., and in 1903 was transferred to Wausau as superintendent. He continued with the Metropolitan until 1906, when he went into partnership with E. C. and A. H. Zimmerman under the firm style of Zimmerman & Rowley. This firm is in the general insurance business, their risks covering fire, life, accident, bonds and plate glass, and the volume of business is veiy large. The partners are all seasoned and reliable insurance men and command the confidence of the public.

At Chicago, III.. 'Sir. Rowley was married to Miss Florence Smithies, and thev have two sons: Frank and James A. Politically Mr. Rowley is not active beyond the duties of citizenship. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.

JOHN SCHIRPKE, who is county treasurer of Marathon county, Wis., is one of the. representative men of this section who, through years of stable and honorable business dealings, gained popularity and secured the full confidence of his fellow citizens. He is a native of Wisconsin, born in Calumet county, November 30, 1875, and is a son of Frank and Rosie Schirpke. For many years after coming from Germany they lived on their farm in Calumet county but in 1903 retired to Marathon City, in Marathon county, where they still reside, highly respected people and devout members of the Catholic church.

John Schirpke remained on the home farm until he was thirteen years of age and then went to his brother's farm in the town of Frankfort, Marathon county. He was of sturdy build and robust constitution and soon began to work in the woods and for some years spent the long winter months in the lumber camps and during the summers followed farming with his father. Afterward he learned the carpenter trade and worked at that during the summer months but when rigorous weather again set in he was off for the deep woods of Marathon county, the free and wholesome life of the lumber regions not only bringing him good health but also proving satisfactory in a financial way. From being an ordinary carpenter he became a carpenter contractor in the town of Frankfort, from which he moved, in 1897, to Haider, in the town of Emmet, where he embarked in a general mercantile business and so continued until his first election to the responsible office he yet fills. Prior to the establishing of the free rural delivery there he was postmaster of the village. Always a stanch supporter of Democratic doctrines and candidates, Mr. Schirpke became a leader in local political circles and in November, 1910, was elected county treasurer, the seal of approval being placed on his administration by his reelection in November, 1912.

Mr. Schirpke was married in 191 1, to Aliss Christina Petrie, of Marathon county, and they have one son, Walter. They are members of the Catholic church and Mr. Schirpke is identified fraternally with the Catholic order of Foresters and with the Eagles. He was one of the organizers and is a stockholder of the Wausau Brewing Company.

HON. HENRY AHLLER, who is well known to bench and bar in Marathon county and has also been a factor in political life, has been a resident of Wausau for forty years. He was born in Hesse-Dannstadt, Germany, February 19, 1849, a son of John and Christina (Brueckel) Miller. His mother, who was the first wife, died when he was ten months old, and his father married again, when Henry Miller was six years of age. Four sons were born to the first and five children to the second union.

The youngest born of his father's first marriage, Henry was reared by his stepmother and remained in Germany until 1868, when, in company with his oldest brother, John Miller, he came to the United States. They separated, John coming directly to Wausau, while Henry went to the home of an uncle, Conrad Miller, who lived in Allegany county, N. Y. From 1868 until September, 1872, when he came to Wausau, he worked at different places in Ncav York, and afterward became a clerk for James McCrossin. Later he began to teach school and taught for six winters in ]\Iarathon county, in the meanwhile making many friends, and in 1875 he was elected city clerk of Wausau, an office he satisfactorily filled for three years, being employed at the same time as a clerk in the store of Conrad Althen. In the fall of 1878 he was elected county clerk of Marathon county, a position he held for eight years or four terms, and in the fall of 1886 was elected a member of the General Assembly, serving as such two years. In the meantime he had become interested in merchandising and conducted a store on Third street, Wausau. In 1890 he was elected municipal judge of Marathon county and honorably filled that office for twelve years. In 1894 he was appointed county judge in place of John J- Shemian, who had resigned, and served sixteen years in that position, retiring from the bench in 1910. In politics Judge Miller is a Democrat. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs also to the O. D. S. H., of which he was grand president.

In August, 1872, Judge jNIiller was married in Allegany county, N. Y., to Miss Helen A. IMathews, of Friendship, N. Y., and they have had eight children, three of whom died when young. Harry L.. the eldest born, is superintendent of the Power Mining and Machinery Company of Milwaukee ; Leon C. is bookkeeper in the pattern department of the above company at Cudahy, Wis. ; Nina V., who is gifted musically, is a teacher of music, both vocal and instrumental. Amy E. is private stenographer for D. L. Plumer, president of the First National Bank at Wausau. Edwin C. is a machinist in the employ of the Power Mining and Machinery Company. Judge Miller's family belong to the Methodist Episcopal church.

ARTHUR WILLIAM PREHN, a well known member of the Wausau bar and assistant district attorney of Marathon county, junior of the law firm of Gonnan & Prehn. was born December i, 1884, at Marathon City, Wis., and is a son of Frederick and Bertha (Langenhahn) Prehn. Frederick Prehn was born in Manitowoc county. Wis., a son of Theodore Prehn, who was a native of Germany. In 1881 Frederick Prehn came to Marathon City and embarked in the mercantile business in which he continues. He is very prominent in Republican politics and served in the state legislature from 1905-1907, for a number of years has been president of the village board and also of the school board. To his first marriage three children were born: a daughter, who died early; Erwin and Arthur William. His second marriage was to Miss Emma Erdman, a native of Marathon county, and they have three sons and two daughters.

Arthur W\ Prehn attended the public schools and in 1904 the Marathon County Training School, in 1905-6 Lawrence University at Appleton, W^is. ; and spent 1907-8-9 in the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was graduated from the law department in the class of 1909. During the sessions of the General Assembly of 1907 and 1909 he filled a clerical position in that body. When prepared for practice after a year's practice alone at Wausau he formed a partnership with E. P. Gorman at Wausau, and since December i, 191 1, has been assistant district attorney of the i6th Judicial District of Wisconsin. He is an active politician and served as secretary of the Republican county committee in 1910-12, and in the latter year was appointed a member of the income tax review board by the State Tax Commission; and in 191 1 was appointed by Governor McGovern a member of the state board of Agriculture to serve until February, 1914, and was superintendent of speed at the Wisconsin State fairs in 191 1 and 1912 and 1913. He was a delegate from the 8th Congressional District to the Republican National Convention held at Chicago in June, 1912. Mr. Prehn gives attention also to fraternal, social and professional organizations, belonging to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the E. F. U. and the F. R. A. ; Y. M. C. A. to the Milwaukee City Club, the Chicago and Waukesha Driving Club and the Marathon County Bar Association.

Mr. Prehn was married February 15. 1913. to Miss Gertrude E. Magee, of Shawano, AVis.. a daughter of Charles Magee, lumberman. Mrs. Prehn was graduated from the Shawano High School in 1909, attended Downer College, Milwaukee, in 1910, and Wisconsin University, 191 1 and 1912. She belongs to the Eastern Star, to the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and to Madison Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and was a page at the National Convention of this organization held at Washington, D. C, in 1912.

LOUIS DESSERT, who is one of the enterprising and far sighted business men of Marathon county, president of the Mosinee Land, Log & Timber Company and vice president of the State Bank at Mosinee, Wis., with many additional interests, was born June 6, 1849, i^i Canada, and is a son of Antoine and Edvige (Rotonelle) Dessert. Both parents have long since passed away. They left six sons and four daughters.

Louis Dessert had rather meager educational privileges and was yet a boy when he went to work around saw mills and in lumber yards, these early years of training, however, probably setting the trend of his life in which it has continued, for Mr. Dessert, while concerned in many lines of industry, has always been more closely connected with lumber activities. He came to Marathon countv in 1869. In addition to the interests named he owns stock in the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Company, in the Westfield and Fall River Company and in the Mosinee Electric Light and Telephone Company. A Republican in politics, he has taken an active part in all movements for the town's good government, served one year on the county board of commissioners and for three years was president of Mosinee Village.

In 1883 Mr. Dessert was married to Miss Abbie Richardson, who was born in New Hampshire, and they have three children: Howard, who is in the lumber business in Chicago, 111. : and Louise and Blanche. Mr. Dessert and family belong to the Roman Catholic church.

JOHN W. MILLER, register of deeds in the U. S. Land office at Wausau, during a long and useful life has been entrusted with many private and public responsibilities and in the performance of the duties attaching to these he has become widely known and has secured public as well as private esteem. He was born October 9, 1849, in Lang-Goens Girouit of Giessen, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany. His parents were John and Maria (Textor) Miller. On the paternal side his grandparents were Conrad and Catherine Miller, and on the maternal side were Casper and Maria (Will) Textor.

In his native village John W. Miller attended school and was confirmed on Pentecost Day, 1863, thereby becoming a member of the Lutheran church. On September 15. 1865, he left his old home and with a party of acquaintances set sail two days later for the United States taking passage on the sailing vessel, Karlshafen, at Bremen. The passage proved tempestuous but their ship was staunch and the passengers were safely landed at the port of New York, November 27, 1865. To his beloved parents he had said "auf wierdensehen" when they parted but he never saw them again. For three weeks after reaching New York Mr. Miller remained with an acquaintance, Peter Young, after which he started to join an uncle and aunt then living at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but it required a week's traveling to get there, only to find that they, in the meanwhile, had moved to Wausau. He sought employment then at ^lilwaukee and worked at first for a locksmith who provided him with board and lodging and paid him fifty cents in cash a week. After a stay of nine months in Milwaukee he came to Wausau, arriving in September, 1866. and found a warm welcome awaiting him from his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. John Althen.

found also it required strong and robust men to work in the woods driving- logs and running lumber on the river. He considered himself fortunate in securing employment in the cook shanty of R. P. Manson, Peter St. Austin and Edward Nicols, and his remuneration was his board and twenty-three dollars a month. He still recalls those days with pleasure. By 1869 he had acquired some knowledge of English and later attended an institute and succeeded in passing the examination and was accepted as a teacher in the Jim Kemp District and followed teaching for ten terms. In the meanwhile as years went on, he made many friends and at their solicitation in 1877, he become a candidate for city assessor and was elected, and in the following year was elected city clerk, to which ofifice he was successively returned for seven years. In 1884 he was elected a member of the board of Education and continued to creditably fill this office for six years. In 1881 he had been appointed lumber inspector by Governor Smith and in 1886 was elected county clerk on the Republican ticket, with a large majority. In February, 1891, Mr. Miller enjoyed his first vacation in twenty years when he visited the Pacific coast. On his return to W'ausau he was engaged by the Wausau Law & Land Association, and worked for them in their abstract department for ten years and contemporaneous!}' held the office of mayor of the city. In 1900 he was made supervisor of the Federal Census. In March, 1901, he received the appointment of register of deeds in the U. S. Land Office, an honor richly deserved.

In 1872 Mr. Miller married Anna M. Lemke, who died January 27, 191 1, the mother of seven children, six of whom survive: Martha, who lives at home ; Richard, who is a farmer in Marathon county, married Miss Emma Juedes; Laura C. who is the wife of Adam Walslegel of Wausau ; Paul, who is a farmer in this county ; Lucy, who is the wife of Roy C. Marsh, of Wausau; Ada, who is a stenographer, is engaged in this professional work at the Northern Hospital at Oshkosh : and George, who died in infancy. Mr. Miller has long been fraternally identified with the Odd Fellows and the E. F. U.

HON. NICHOLAS SCHMIDT, a member of the General Assembly of the State of Wisconsin, in 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 191 1 and 1912, in which public body he gave honorable and efficient service, has long been one of the representative men of Marathon City, a promoter of many of its most successful enterprises and interested in many of its

When twenty years of age, Nicholas Schmidt came alone to the United States leaving behind his parents and four sisters, the youngest of whom later came to this country also and lived in Minnesota. In Germany Mr. Schmidt had learned the trade of locksmith and machinist and when he found his first home in America, at Westpoint, Nebr., he worked there for six months. He had never before been separated from his people and there are hundreds who read this record who will sympathize with his homesickness that induced him to start on the long return journey to his native land. He had friends in Chicago and when he reached them they succeeded in overcoming his nostalgia and he gave up his idea of going back to Germany and continued to work at his trade in that city until 1887. He then met with an accident that gave him a broken shoulder blade and this precluded all expectation of his ever being able to resume his trade work. He then embarked in a flour, feed, wood and coal business at Chicago, afterward went into the real estate business there which he continued until 1902, in which year he bought the Marathon City Brewery, at Marathon City, Wis., and came to this place and assumed control in September of that year. In 1905 he made it a stock company and it became the Marathon City Brewing Company, Mr. Schmidt being president, treasurer and manager until December 31, 1910, when, on account of ill health, he gave up the management of the business. During this time he had become interested in other enterprises, organizing the State Bank of Marathon City, of which he was elected first president and continued at the head of that institution until December, 191 1. He was one of the main organizers of the Marathon City Telephone Company and was its first president, and also organized the Marathon Excelsior Manufacturing Company. Although somewhat retired from business he retains his stock in all the concerns with which he was formerly actively identified.

Mr. Schmidt was married at Chicago, 111., to :\Iiss ]\Iary Friedl, who died there, the mother of four children: Frederick M., a physician and surgeon, at Eagle, Wis. ; Charles N., who is engaged in the brewery business at Chicago; Thomas E., who is a member of the class of 1914 in the medical department of the Missouri University at St. Louis; and Arthur, who died at Marathon City, when aged eleven years. On May 2, 1899, Mr. Schmidt married Miss Berta Gunjen, who was born in Germany, and they enjoyed some months of travel afterward in Europe.

They are members of St. Mary's Catholic church at Marathon City. He has been a lifelong Democrat and has frequently served in local offices and for six years was a member of the village board. He is identified with the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Germania, and the National Union.

JOHN KING, clerk of Marathon county and a factor in Republican politics in Wisconsin, a member of the Republican State Central Committee of the state, is a native of Pennsylvania, born at Pittsburgh, June 24, 1877. His parents were Dominick and Elizabeth (Smith) King. Dominick King was born in Germany and after coming to the United States in 1848 spent ten years as a boatman on the Mississippi river and the Great Lakes. In the fall of 1877 he settled in the town of Cassel, Marathon county, where he opened up a tract of 200 acres, cleared this land mostly himself and continued to reside on it until the time of his death, July 17, 191 1, when aged nearly eighty-one years. At Pittsburgh he married Elizabeth Smith, who was born in Alsace Loraine, and as she lost her mother early in life, relatives took care of her and they came to Pittsburgh in her childhood and there she was reared. Her death occurred in Marathon county, October 2^, 1909, in her seventy-first year. They were parents of the following children : Joseph, who died September 12. 191 1; Dominick; Anton; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Simon Bauer; Martha, who is the wife of Emil Lang; Minnie, who is the wife of George Burger : Charles ; Conrad ; Victoria, who is the wife of William Welsh, all of whom are engaged in farming in Marathon county ; and John, who is the youngest born.

John King completed his education in the State Normal School at Stevens Point, after which he taught school for eight years, retiring from educational work when elected to the office of county clerk, in 1904, which he has continued to fill ever since. He has always been interested in public affairs and has so enjoyed public confidence that from his twenty-first year, although not continuously, he has filled such offices as township clerk, school district clerk and justice of the peace in his home town. In 1903 he came to Wausau and here, as elsewhere, he has made his stable qualities of citizenship felt.

On August 26. 1908. Mr. King was married to Miss Winnie McHugh. of the town of Emmett, a daughter of Edward and Catherine (Powers) McHugh, the father a native of Scotland and the mother of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. King have two sons : Arthur J. and Earl T. They are members of St. James Catholic church. He is identified fraternally with the E. F. U., an organization which claims a wide membership in this section.

RICHARD BAUMANN, hardware merchant and president of the R. Baumann Hardware Company of Wausau, has lived in this place for many years, coming in 1864 and being now the oldest hardware man in the city in point of years in the trade. He was born in Germany, September 24, 1839, and is a son of Henry and Wilhelmina Baumann.

Richard Baumann remained in Germany until he was nineteen years of age, attending school and also learning the tinsmith trade. After reaching the United States he made his way to Milwaukee in 1859 and there worked as a tinsmith. It was through the encouragement of Jacob Pafif that he came to Wausau, Mr. Faff at that time operating a general store, and for two years Mr. Baumann continued in the employ of Mr. Faff and then started a tin shop of his own. As trade increased he expanded his business so that it gradually included a full line of hardware and Mr. Baumann keeps abreast with the times in his line, his stock including all the thoroughly proved goods as well as the later improvements and the newly invented ones. He has much that is interesting to tell concerning the changes that have come about not only in his own line of trade but in other directions since he embarked in the business some forty-six years ago.

In 1864, just prior to leaving Milwaukee for Wausau, Mr. Baumann was married to Miss Emma Lattermann, who was also born in Germany, and five children were born to them, the two survivors being: Anna, a widow (Mrs. Dobring), residing at Wausau; and Agnes, who is the wife of Henry J. Seim. Mrs. Emma Baumann died April 10, 1913. When Mr. Baumann went into business he began on Third street, on the site of his early store in 1880 erecting his handsome Baumann Building. In 1898 he erected the handsome brick residence that he subsequently sold to his son-in-law, Henry J. Seim. Mr. Baumann is a member of the Evangelical church.

JOHN GEORGE SUTTER, superintendent of the hub factory which belongs to the Athens Implement Company, has many additional interests here and is one of the leading citizens. He was born in Germany. April 8, 1850, and was brought to America and to W'isconsin in childhood by his parents, John George and Elizabeth (Kurtz) Sutter. The parents of Mr. Sutter after coming to the United States always lived in Wisconsin but in different counties, settling first in Waukesha county. He was a farmer until death in middle age. His widow some years later married Frederick Snyder and both are now deceased. To this first marriage two children were born : John George and Barbara, the latter of whom is the widow of Carl Knauer. To the second marriage a daughter was born. Bertha, who became the wife of William Bridung.

John George Sutter grew up on the home farm and attended the public schools. When eighteen years old he went to work in the pine woods and more or less has worked in wood all his life. He was one of the organizers of the Athens Implement Company and has been superintendent of the hub factory since it started and is one of the stockholders. He is a stockholder also in the Athens Bank, the Athens Prniting Company and the Athens Telephone Company, owns two residences at Athens and ten acres adjoining.

In 1884 Mr. Sutter was married to Mary Wintringer, who was born in Germany, a step-daughter of Peter and Mary Neuens. Mrs. Sutter had one brother and two sisters, Paul, who is deceased, and Catherine and Anna, and four half-brothers : John, deceased. John Peter, Peter and Theodore. Mr. and Mrs. Sutter have four children : George, Andrew, Clarence and Elizabeth. The family belong to the Catholic church. In politics Mr. Sutter is a Democrat.

J. HENRY JOHANNES, general manager and secretary of The Jacob Mortenson Lumber Company, of Wausau, Wis., with which he has been continuously identified for the past nineteen years, was born in Germany, September 24, 1866, received his primary education there and was about eighteen years of age when he came to America.

On April 24, 1884, Mr. Johannes reached Merrill, Wis., and went to work in a factory there where he remained until an accident, on August 23, 1888, terminated his factory life and resulted in the loss of the fingers of his left hand. While this was indeed a calamity, it definitely turned his thought and ambitions in a dififerent direction and opened up, ultimately, the path in which he has been very successful. In order to better equip himself mentally, Mr. Johannes attended the Merrill High School for two years and afterward took a full course in the Wausau Business College and thus was well qualified when he accepted the position of bookkeeper in a bank at Merrill. In 1892 he became bookkeeper for the Wisconsin Valley Land Company and was interested in real estate until 1894 at Wausau and in September of that year became bookkeeper for The Jacob Mortenson Lumber Company. In 1899 he was made sales manager for the firm, in 1901 became manager and assistant treasurer and since 1912 has been general manager and secretary.

In 1894 Mr. Johannes was married to Miss Mollie Beilke, who is a daughter of Louis and Caroline Beilke. The parents of Mrs. Johannes were pioneers of this city and the father died when she was still young. Her mother had passed more than fifty-one years here when her death occurred on July 24, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Johannes have four children: Raymond, Lovina, Myrtle and Elnora.

Mr. Johannes served as a member of the school board for seven years, succeeding Mr. Thalheim, deceased. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

\\'ILLIA]\I A. FRICKE, M. D.. who is vice president and general manager of the Great Northern Life Insurance Company of Wausau, Wis., has been prominently identified with insurance in this and other states, for many years of an exceptionally busy life. He was born May 15, 1857, in the city of New York, and his collegiate training prepared him for the professions of both law and medicine.

Dr. Fricke was a candidate for commissioner of insurance on the Republican ticket in the state of Wisconsin, in 1894. and was elected to succeed Commissioner Root in January, 1895, and in the following year was reelected. He was the first commissioner to adopt the Gain and Loss Exhibit, in 1895, and published such Exhibit for that year and for each year while in office, in the Wisconsin Reports of all companies transacting business in that state. He was appointed by the legislature of Wisconsin, in 1895, chairman of the commission to revise the insurance laws of the state. In this revision appeared the first demand for an annual apportionment and accounting of deferred dividend accumulations. In October, 1898, a few months before the conclusion of his term of office as insurance commissioner, he resigned to accept the New York metropolitan agency of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. As a result of the National Convention of Insurance Commissioners held in Milwaukee, in September, 1898, which was arranged by, and of which he was vice president. Dr. Fricke, early in 1899, issued "Insurance : a Text-book." l)eing a compilation of the essays delivered at the convention. He has also prepared and delivered many addresses on life insurance and supervision. All of these are of signal value, cov- erring special points, and particular mention may be made of: "The Limitations of Assessment Life Insurance," "There is but One System of Life Insurance," "The Discretionary Powers of an Insurance Commissioner," and "Success in the Life Insurance Field." In 1902 he wrote an extensive treatise on "The Law of Distribution of Surplus Life Insurance Companies," which was widely discussed. At the National Convention of Insurance Commissioners in 1899, he was elected an honorary member. Dr. Fricke was president of the Wisconsin Society of New York, 1902-1903. In 1905 he resigned the New York general agency of the LTnion Central Life, and was engaged as counsel before the Wisconsin Legislative Insurance Committee in 1906 and 1907, and in 1909 was elected to the office mentioned in the opening paragraph. Dr. Fricke is also vice president and general manager of the Employers' Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin. Additionally he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Actuaries, and is also a Fellow of the American Association of Public Accountants.

MATTHEW J. BERRES, a representative man of the town of Rib Falls, who has served in the office of town clerk for the past thirteen years, is a general farmer owning land, lying in section 19, four and one-half miles* north of Edgar, Wis. He was born at Kewaskum, Washington county, Wis., November 20, 1863, and is a son of John and Catherine (Rodermund) Berres.

John Berres was born in Germany and was seventeen years old when he accompanied his parents in 1848, to America. They were very early settlers in Washington county. Wis., and located near the present little village of St. Michaels, where they found a home, in a vast uncut timber tract. Some years later he married Catherine Rodermund, also born in Germany, whose parents, Paul and Barbara (Miller) Rodermund, had emigrated in 1847 ^"^ had settled in Washington county, Wis. In the spring of 1880 they emigrated to Marathon county and located on the land in the town of Rib Falls, now owned by Matthew J. Berres, and in order to reach it had to clear a path through the dense underbrush. He was a hard-working man, spending his time clearing his land and afterward cultivating it, thus providing for his family, contributing to the support of the Catholic church, and giving help to his neighbors as they settled about him. When election day came around he went to the polls and voted the Democratic ticket, believing his duty as a citizen was thus performed, but otherwise he bothered very little about politics.

His death occurred at Wausau, when aged sixty-nine years. His wife died two years later, and they were interred in the Trinity CathoHc cemetery at Poniatowski. They were parents of five sons and four daughters, two of the daughters and one of the sons being now deceased.

Matthew J. Berres attended the country schools in boyhood and later the West Bend school and at the age of sixteen he came with his parents to Marathon county. For some years afterward he worked in mills on the river and in logging camps and for two years was a clerk in a store aftej which he spent one year in the state of Washington. Returning to Marathon county in 1890 he was married to Miss Agnes Hettig, who was born in Marathon county, a daughter of Michael Hettig, a former resident of Marathon City. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Berres located at Marshfieid, Wis., where he followed the carpenter trade for three years. When the panic of 1893 caused a widespread business depression he returned to the old homestead which he had previously bought and has resided here ever since. He now has sixty acres of his land cleared and pays considerable attention to high grade Holstein cattle for dairy purposes. He has seen many changes during his lifetime in this section and remembers when there were no roads leading through the woods around this place and the nearest point where purchases could be made was miles away. As a carpenter and contractor Mr. Berres has built many of the most substantial buildings at Poniatowski and in the vicinity.

Mr. and Mrs. Berres have the following children : Matilda, Roman T., Carrie, Minnie, Matthew C, Joseph N., George Philip, Eugene Peter, Elmer Charles and Edward Michael, all born in Marathon county except the first two, whe were born at Marshfieid. The two eldest daughters are teachers. The family belongs to Trinity Catholic church at Poniatokski. He has served in the offices of justice of the peace, school district clerk and town clerk.

HON. CLYDE L. WARREN, judge of the Probate Court of Marathon county, came first to Wausau in 1899, at that time entering upon the practice of law, and his entire professional career, both at the bar and on the bench, has been of such a character as to make those with whom he has been thus associated pay him freely the tribute that he has earned so honorably. He was born at Green Bay, \Vis., in 1871, and is a son of Albert and Vesta O. (Beach) Warren.

Albert Warren was born in Ross county, O., and when he came first to Wisconsin, about 1864, settled at Mayville, but has been a resident of Green

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Bay for the past forty years. He married Vesta O. Beach, who was bom in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and four sons were born to them : Clyde L. ; A. M., who with his next younger brother, F. B., lives at Los Angeles, Cal. ; and E. B., who is an attorney and also is engaged in the insurance business at Green Bay.

Clyde L. Warren was educated in the public schools and the university of Wisconsin, graduating from this institution in the class of 1895 ^^d in 1897 graduating in the department of law from Northwestern University. He then engaged in an individual law practice at Wausau for two years and then entered into partnership with Mr. Manson, under the style of Manson & Warren. For two years he was assistant district attorney, and in the spring of 1909 was elected county judge, assuming the duties of the office on January i, 1910. Judge Warren is a valued member of the Marathon County Bar Association and of the Criminology Association. In his political attitude is found those tendencies which make many men waver in party allegiance, feeling that the time has come for personalities to be placed before party policies.

Judge Warren was married October 22, 1901, to Miss Mabel E. Carr, daughter of William Carr, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Three sons and one daughter have been born to them : Edgar, Harold, Seiger, and Ada. While in college Judge Warren was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and still preserves this connection. He belongs also to the Masons and the Odd Fellows and additionally the Wausau Country Club.

HERMAN B. ESSELMAN, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Athens Implement and Manufacturing Company, was born in Washington county. Wis., in January, 1871, and is a son of Clemens and Anna (Bushman) Esselman. The parents of Mr. Esselman were born, reared and married in Germany. After they came to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, the father followed farming during his active years. His widow survives him and lives at Marshfield. They had the following children : Sophia, who is the widow of Joseph Leonard ; Clemens ;.Anna, who is the wife of Joseph McKim; Herman B.,; Dena, who is the wife of Joseph Herbst; Josephine: Mary; Augusta ; Amelia, who is the wife of George Claridge ; and Louis.

At the age of nine years Herman B. Esselman was considered old enough to put aside his school books and begin to help on the home farm and he worked for his father at farming and in the woods and logging and teaming until he was twenty-one years of age. Wishing to see something of other parts of the country, Mr. Essehnan then went to Minnesota and wliile there was in a general store business until 1894, when he returned to Wisconsin and for one year was in the hotel business at Loyal in Clark county. Later he bought a blacksmith shop and taught himself the trade and conducted the shop for three and onehalf years, when he bought a hardware store. Six months later, after selling the store, he came to Athens, in the spring of 1901, and here bought a blacksmith and wagon shop and operated the same for three years. In 1904 the Athens Implement and Manufacturing Company was organized for the sale of farm implements and the manufacturing of wagon hubs and all kinds of turned wood. Since July, 1905, Mr. Esselman has been manager, secretary and treasurer. It is one of the prospering enterprises of this section, largely owing to Mr. Esselman's energy and good judgment. In 1912 the above concern added a department for the sale of automobiles and operation of an up-to-date garage. Mr. Esselman is a stockholder in the Bank of Athens and the Athens Telephone Company, and, in partnership with George A. Kouetzer is interested in lands and also' owns personally other lands.

On February 13, 1898, Mr. Esselman was married to Miss Emma Sala, who was born at Kewaskum, Wis., a daughter of Adam and Catherine (Filber) Sala, the former of whom was a millwright and carpenter by trade. Mrs. Esselman has the following brothers and sisters : William ; Elizabeth, wife of John Brasch : and Charles, Jacob, Frederick, Minnie and Linda. Mr. and Mrs. Esselman have three children: Herman, Bernard and Marcella. The family belongs to the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Esselman is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and of the Eagles. He is a Republican in politics and for two years, 1902-4, served very efficiently in the office of marshal of Athens, but otherwise has accepted no public office.

HON. JOHN F. LAMONT, who twice served in the office of mayor of Wausau, Wisconsin, and is known all over the state for his public interest and his value in constructive citizenship, standing at the head of educational progress and exerting unmeasured influence in this direction, was born at Mill Center, Brown county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Angus and Almira Lamont. Angus Lamont was bom in Prince Edward's Island and was a pioneer lumberman in Wisconsin. His wife was a native of New York. In 1874 they moved to Colby, Wis., and there Angus Lamont died October 25, 1910, his widow yet surviving.

John F. Lamont was graduated from the Unity High School in 1882 and from then until 1884, when he entered the University of Wisconsin, he taught school. Graduating from that institution in 1888 he then turned his attention to business and engaged in the lumber industry from 1888 until 1894, at Colby, in the meanwhile becoming widely known and tendered many political oflices. In the latter year he was a member of the county board of supervisors of Marathon county and was also elected county superintendent of schools. Immediately he set about the organization of a training school for teachers, the first county organization of its kind in the United States. He organized also the Marathon County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy; was state president of the State Association of County Superintendents of Schools ; was chairman of the State Board of Visitors to River Falls Normal School; was treasurer of the State Teachers' Association; state manager for Wisconsin for the National Educational Association, and during his service of ten years and six months as county superintendent, the schools of Marathon county became rated as the best in Wisconsin. From 1894 until 1905 Mr. Lamont was thus continuously engaged in educational work along the line of school extension but in that year he retired and again turned his attention to a business life, entering into the real estate, loan and insurance business, in which he continues, and until 1909 he was the junior member of the firm of Kretlow & Lamont. He was not permitted long, however, to withdraw from the public eye, in 1906 becoming secretary of Wausau's Fire and Police Commission; in 1908 being first elected mayor of Wausau and reelected in 1910, and in 191 1 became secretary of the Marathon County Agricultural Society. During 1910 and 191 1 Mr. Lamont delivered many lectures in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, for the Wisconsin Advancement Association in the interests of Upper Wisconsin.

On December 25, 1897, Mr. Lamont was married to Miss Jessie M. Young of Wausau, and they have four children : Alexander, James, Marion and Katherine. He has long been identified with Masonry and is a Knight Templar, and belongs also to the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.

EMILE ROY, M. D., who has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Wausau since 1907, is numbered with the eminent medical men of this city and has enjoyed wider opportunities for scientific training than have many of his professional co-laborers. He was

The parents of Dr. Roy are both deceased. For more than forty years the father was a member of the Quebec bar and was known all over the province. He died in 1888 at the age of seventy-six years. He married Sophia Ross, who was born in Scotland, a daughter of Alexander Ross. Her death occurred in 1880, at the age of sixty years. Nine sons and four daughters were born to them and of the thirteen children Emile was the youngest born. Two sons and one daughter died in infancy. Regis, the eldest, who died at the age of thirty-three j^ears, was a wholesale salesman for European and Canadian merchants. Alexander is an attorney in practice in the city of New York. Elzear, now retired, for thirty years was master of languages for transportation companies. John B. is in the jewelry business at Montreal. Felix is engaged in business enterprises in the northern part of Quebec. Phileas is professor of harmony in the New York Conservatory of Music. The three surviving daughters are all married, Hermine being Mrs. C. Guimont, of Montreal ; Sophia being Mrs. George Dion of Quebec : and Elzire being Mrs. Eugene Blumhart, of Montreal.

Dr. Roy was graduated in Arts from Louis le Grand, Paris, and received his degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne, France, in 1886; was graduated in 1890 from the University of Paris, in medicine, and received his degree in surgery from Queens University. He l)egan to practice in 1890 but for full two years following did work in surgery at Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. In 1901 Dr. Roy was associated with the late Dr. Fernand Henrotin, in Chicago, as his assistant : leaving Dr. Henrotin. he went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he practiced until he came to W'ausau, in 1907. Dr. Roy is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, the A\'isconsin State and the American Medical Association, belonging also to the Association of American Surgeons and the district society, and is president of the Wausau General Hospital.

In 1888, Dr. Roy was married to Miss Josephine Pronovost, a daughter of Hubert Pronovost, of Two Harbors, Minn., and they have one daughter and three sons : Jeanne, Ross, Herald and Hubert. Dr. Roy is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Modern \Voodmen of America and belongs to the E. F. U.

continuously since 1882 and was previously engaged as a printer in the various offices of Wausau, from 1863. Mr. Thayer was born April 30, 1853, at Princeton, Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Lyman Wellington and Catherine (Davis) Thayer.

Lyman Wellington Thayer was born April 21, 1830, at Middlesex. in Ontario county, N. Y., and was a son of Capt. Lyman E. and Fanny (Butler) Thayer. In 1836 Captain Thayer removed with his family to Michigan, and in 1850 to Green Lake county. Wis., where his wife died in 1862, his death following at Wausau, two years later. Lyman Wellington Thayer accompanied his parents when they came to the West, and afterward entered the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which he was graduated and in 1850 was admitted to the bar. He went directly to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and was there united in marriage the same year with Catherine Davis, who was born in Wales, in 1834, came to the United States with her parents in 1841 and resided at Kingston, Wisconsin. Five children were born to Lyman W. Thayer and wife, Eugene Butler being the second in order of birth. In 1854 Mr. Thayer came to Wausau after practicing law for three years at Princeton and Waupaca. For a time, in those early days he taught a private school and conducted the first book store in Wausau. He engaged in the practice of his profession here and was subsequently elected to the office of register of deeds for Marathon county, which office he held at the time of his death, March 7, i860.

Eugene Butler Thayer attended the public schools of Wausau until ten years of age, when he entered the Central Wisconsin printing office owned by M. Stafiford. Three years afterward he accepted a position on the Wisconsin River Pilot, owned by V. Ringle. In 1872 he was in Menasha as foreman of the Menasha Press, owned by Thomas B. Reed. Returning to Wausau in 1873 he accepted a position as foreman of the Central W^isconsin, and in 1876 bought the Central Wisconsin job office, and in 1882 started the Wausau Review. In 1884 he purchased the Wisconsin River Pilot and consolidated the papers and conducted the Pilot- Review, later making the name the Wausau Pilot, which he has owned and published ever since. During the campaigns of 1884 and 1896, he conducted a daily Democratic paper. Mr. Thayer was receiver of the U. S. Land Office under the administration of President Cleveland, from 1893 to 1897.

were born. In religious views Mr. Thayer is a Universalist. For many years he has been prominently identified with the leading fraternal organizations. He is a member of Forest Lodge No. 130, F. & A. M., Wausau ; Wausau Chapter No. 51, R. A. M., Wausau; St. Omer Commandery No. 19, K. T. and is now right eminent grand commander K. T., of Wisconsin. He belongs also to Wausau Lodge No. 215, L O. O. F., Wausau, and to Marathon Encampment, No. 79, Wausau, and to Wausau Lodge No. 248, B. P. O. E.

HENRY DEGNER, architect and builder, and dealer in builders' supplies, at Athens, is one of the substantial men of this place and is concerned in many successful and reputable enterprises. He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 3, 1852, and is a son of Frederick and Frederica (Neudahl) Degner. The parents of Mr. Degner were born, reared and married in Germany. After coming to the United States they lived for three years in the city of Milwaukee and then moved on a farm in the town of Grafton and remained there until 1882 and then came to Marathon county. Here the father continued to be a farmer as long as he was active, surviving until he was eighty-two years of age. His widow reached the unusual age of ninety years. They were well known and highly respected people and are recalled as early settlers in this section. They had the following children : Henry, Emily, wife of Gustav Teggart : Herman; William; and Elvina, wife of Otto Bruss.

After a rather short school period, Henry Degner gave his father assistance on the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Milwaukee and there spent eight years working at the carpenter trade, and two years as a contractor, during which time he erected a number of church edifices. In 1880 he came to Athens, then called Black Lick Falls, commissioned to build a saw mill for Rietbrok & Halsey, and during the first ten years of the village's growth, did the main work of construction. He started also a hardware store in 1882 and. continued the same until 1909, and in 1890 started what is now the E. E. Winch Heading Mill. He continued to be interested in that concern until 1904, about fifteen years, then made it into a stock company and was one of the partners of the same for six years, then sold and since then has taken life a little easier although still carefully looking after his investments. These include stock in the Athens Bank and in the Long Distance Telephone Company, and the ownership of a handsome residence property and two entire business blocks.

In 1882 Mr. Degner was married to Miss Caroline Kreutzer, and they have the following children: Lydia, who is the wife of Baldwin Whipking; Adaline, who is a teacher in the public schools; Caroline, who is the wife of Dr. A. M. Rodermund; Hilda, who is a teacher at Columbus, Wisconsin ; and Herbert. Mr. Degner and family are members of the German Lutheran church. In politics a strong Democrat, he has frequently been honored by his party with election to important offices and served seven years as town treasurer arid is now serving in his second term as assessor.

THEOPHILUS M. SMITH, who has been largely interested in lumber for a number of years and owns many tracts of valuable timber throughout the state of Wisconsin, is at present engaged in the real estate business with office at No. 313 Third street, Wausau, handling his own property entirely. Mr. Smith was born at Punxsutawney, Pa., in 1861, and is a son of the late Dr. Theophilus and Emily (Postlethwaite) Smith.

Dr. Theophilus Smith for many years was one of Wausau's most esteemed citizens. He came here from Jefiferson county. Pa., in 1862, and practiced medicine in this city until his death in 1902. He was born at Clarksburg, now West Virginia, a son of Jesse and Julia Smith, and was a schoolmate of the distinguished Confederate officer in the Civil War known as Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Dr. Smith was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was a man of both literary and professional attainments. He was twice married, first to Emily Postlethwaite, who died in Pennsylvania, survived by one son, Theophilus M., and (second) to Mrs. Harriet Millard, who survives him and resides at Wausau.

After completing his education at the Lebanon Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio, Theophilus M. Smith taught school in Jefiferson county. Pa., for several years and then joined his father who had already been a resident of Wausau for twenty years. For five years Mr. Smith was identified with railroad affairs as a contractor after first coming to Wausau, and then embarked in the timber business and in later years has been in the real estate line mainly for the purpose of satisfactorily handling his own lands.

Mr. Smith married Miss Mary Cooper, who died in 1907, survived by four children: Gertrude, Emily, Lawrence and Irene. Mr. Smith is identified with several branches of Masonry and also with the Knights of Pythias.

WILLIAM F. MANECKE, who conducts a jewelry business at No. 117 Clinton street, Wausau, was born in Germany, in 1881, and was brought to the United States by his parents when one year old. His father was a jeweler and watchmaker and established himself in this business at Wausau and continued until his death in 1908.

William F. Manecke attended the public schools and when the time came for him to make a choice of calling, he turned first to photography and for several years worked for Carl Lemke, the well known photographer, but then found himself more interested in the jewelry and watchmaking trade, which was quite natural as his father had been a jeweler, and he worked for his father until the latter's death and then went into the business on his own account. He has a fine stock and thoroughly understands his business, carries many gems of value, and has such favorable trade relations that it is possible for him to procure any artistic design that his patrons may desire.

In 1904 Mr. Manecke was married to Miss Alza Pittsley, a daughter of Arthur Pittsley, of Wausau, and they have two children: Harold and Norma. Two of their little ones have passed away : William and Kathryn. Mr. Manecke has never been very active in politics but can always be found supporting law and justice in public matters. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and takes a hearty interest in the Wausau Commercial Club, of which he is a member.

JOHN FEHL, who is the senior member of the firm of John Fehl & Sons, dealers in bicycles, motorcycles and sporting goods, occupying their own building at No. 202 Washington street, Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1882 and is one of its representative men. He was born at Janesville, Wisconsin, September 11, 1852, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Pfeil) Fehl.

The parents of John Fehl moved in his childhood to a farm in Milwaukee county, and there he lived until he was sixteen years of age when he went to the city of Milwaukee, where he learned the tinner's trade, one that he found could be profitably followed in almost any section, and after leaving Milwaukee worked through Washington county and from there came to Wausau. Here, for several years, he was tinsmith for the Montgomery Hardware Company. In 1898 he started into business for himself, on Washington street, a few doors east of his present location, which latter he bought in 1900 and has since occupied. The situation of the building, on the corner of Second and Washington streets.

is an admirable business site, but lie has made many improvements and it is now an exceptionally fine structure, a two-story brick, with a frontage of thirty feet and a depth of seventy-five feet. Here he continued his tin shop until 1910, his son, the late Benjamin J. Fehl, being the practical tinner of the establishment. After his death Mr. Fehl closed the tin department and since then has devoted his ime, as have his two other sons, Alexander and Antone, as partners, to the handling of the goods mentioned in the opening paragraph, and they also have the agency for the Indian Motorcycle Company. This is a business that is not only a constantly growing one at the present but has a certain future for each year athletics assume a more and more important place in the life of every community and the supplying of the demand for equipments becomes an exceedingly profitable line of business.

In 1875 Mr. Fehl was married, at Milwaukee, to Miss Mary W^ondra, who was born in Germany, and four sons have been born to them : Henry, who died in 1908, aged thirty-three years; Benjamin J., who died June 9, 1910, aged thirty-one years; and Alexander and Antone, junior members of the firm of John Fehl & Sons. This establishment is headquarters for the Wausau Motorcycle Club. Mr. Fehl is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

MATT J. KLIMEK, a well known business man of Wausau, proprietor of a grocery store at No. 1202 North Sixth street, and also of the Sixth Street Livery Stable at No. 1208 North Sixth street, owns additional property in this city and has acquired his many interests entirely through his own efforts. He was born February 8, 1873, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is a son of Valentine Klimek, who was a native of Germany.

Matt J. Klimek was reared and attended school at Green Bay, and afterward went to work in a saw mill at Arbor Vitae, where he remained four years and then came to Wausau and married and returned to Arbor Vitae and worked there for five years more at lumbering. He came back to Wausau and in 1900 established his barns and three years later his store. He owns the property also on the corner of Hamilton and Sixth street to the alley that adjoins his livery stable, and has put up all the buildings on this ground, having his store and stables of brick construction. He carries a first class line of grocery goods arid has a heavy trade. He keeps twenty head of horses and all kinds of conveyances for every purpose and additionally engages in general teaming. Mr. Klimek is one of Wausau's most energetic and enterprising citizens.

In July, 1895, Mr. Klimek was married to Miss Paulina W'eloch of Wausau, Wis., and they have seven children: Mary, Frances, John, Casimer, Leona, Marcella and Regina. The family belongs to the Polish Catholic church and Mr. Klimek is a member of St. Michael's Society of this church.

GOTTFRIED SCHULZ, owner and proprietor of a furniture store, at Mosinee, Wis., also in the undertaking business, has been a resident of this place since 191 1, and has lived in America since 1900. Mr. Schulz was born in Germany, April 4, 1876, and is a son of Jacob and Anna (Schrade) Schulz. The father is deceased but the mother still lives in Germany. The family consisted of one daughter, Regina, and four sons : Gottfried, Jacob, August and Henry.

In Germany all boys go to school as it is the excellent law of the land, and afterward ail learn a self supporting trade. The one to which Gottfried Schulz applied himself was cabinetmaking although his father was a stonecutter. After reaching the United States he came to Price county. Wis., where he remained for two months and then sought a larger place and settled at Oshkosh, in Winnebago county, and there worked at his trade for seven and one-half years, when he returned to Price county and established himself in the furniture business at Park Falls, adding undertaking two years later. In order to qualify as an embalmer he attended the Barnes School of Anatomj' at Oshkosh, where he was graduated June 25, 1909. He continued in business at Park Falls until 191 1 when he came to Mosinee, where he is the only dealer in furniture. He has invested capital here and owns his comfortable residence.

In 1898 Mr. Schulz was married to Miss Minnie Scherwinski, who was born in Germany and they have four children : Frederick, Paula, Gertrude and Meta. The family belongs to the Lutheran church. Mr. Schulz is law abiding in every way but takes no great interest in politics.

ADOLPH HOLUB, whose real estate, loan and insurance office is located in the INIaibach Building on First avenue, Wausau, West Side, has been a resident of this city for thirty years and has been interested in his present line since May, 1912. He was born on a farm in Manitowoc county, Wis., December 3. 1871, and is a son of John and Mary Holub.

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his father, in the meanwhile, ha\ing died in Manitowoc county some three years before. He then accompanied his mother in her removal to Wausau and here, after completing his period of school attendance, became a clerk in a general store and continued until 1906, when he went into the general store business as senior member of the firm of Holub & Fenhouse, which continued until he embarked in his present business. This line offers an excellent field for business, and he handles much property, makes investments, loans money and is agent for a number of old line insurance companies.

In December, 1890, at Wausau, Mr. Holub was married to Miss Minnie Schroeder, and they have four children : Mary, Adolph, Delia, and Marvin. Mr. Holub belongs to the Modern Brotherhood of America, being president of the local lodge, and is identified also with the Modem Woodmen and the Owls. He has never been an ardent politician, but his good citizenship is above question.

HARRIS B. HANOWITZ, manager and junior member of the J. Hanovvitz & Son Company, at Mosinee, general merchants, operating the largest store in the place, having floor space of 50x120 feet, is one of the enterprising and successful young business men of this section. He was born in New Jersey, the eldest child of Julius and Fannie Hanowitz. Both parents were born in Prussia and both came when young to America, here became acquainted and subsequently married and for some time afterward lived in New York and New Jersey. They have four children: Harris B., Harry, Max and Meyer.

When the parents of Mr. Hanowitz came first to Wisconsin they settled at Milwaukee and the father soon became interested in the cedar lumber business in which he continues to some extent. In 1904 the present mercantile enterprise was established at Mosinee and the present firm style adopted, and it has been prosperous from the start. This firm carries the largest stock of general merchandise of any store in the county outside of Wausau and draws custom from a radius of twenty miles. A large force of employes are required to handle the trade and keep every avenue of the business up to the high standard which has marked it from the beginning. It is one of the most enterprising business concerns of Mosinee.

is one of the earnest, zealous and hard working priests of the Northern Wisconsin Diocese. He was born in Germany, February 26, 1859, and is a son of Frank and Walburga (Lechner) Klein.

The parents of Father Klein spent the closing years of their lives in Wisconsin. They were good, Catholic people, kind as neighbors and irreproachable in every relation of life. They had four children: Creszens, who became the wife of John Hallmeier; and Joseph, Bernard and Ignatius, the two last named both entering the church, the youngest at present being stationed at East Bristol, Dane county, Wisconsin.

After his preparatory studies Father Klein became a student in a German university and after coming to the United States his education for the priesthood was completed at the Salesianum, at St. Francis, in Milwaukee county. Wis., and he was ordained at La Crosse, Wis., by the Right Reverend Kilian Flasch. Prior to coming to St. Paul's parish, in January, 1910, Father Klein ministered to other parishes in the northern part of the state, where he is still recalled with reverence and affection. There are many Catholic families in this part of Marathon county and his time is very fully taken up in looking after their spiritual welfare, and, as a good priest, not forgetting their temporal afifairs.

JOHN L. SELL, register of deeds of Marathon county, has been a resident of Wausau for about thirty-four years and has been identified with both city and county development and progress. He was born on a farm in Wood county. Wis., June 24, 1869, and is a son of William and Caroline (Habeck) Sell. They were natives of Germany, coming to America when about twenty-one years of age and were married in Milwaukee, Wis. By trade he was a brickmaker and owned a brick yard and also was in the hotel and saloon business. He died February 27, 1905, and is survived by his widow and the following children : Emma, wife of Frank Hartle, of Wausau; John L. ; Minnie, wife of R. H. Genrich, of Wausau ; William, Walter and Hugo, all merchants at Wausau ; and Anita, wife of George Hartwig. a carpenter and contractor at Wausau.