Marathon County, Wisconsin - Chapter 35, 1913 (part 6 of 10)

from the shoe business, and served two terms in that office. As early as 1876 he was elected a member of the city council and served also in 1877, and from 1887 until 1888, was mayor of Wausau and his thorough business administration advanced many of the important measures that benefited the city. He still has numerous business interests, being vice president of the Wausau Building and Loan and Investment Company, of which he was the first president; is a director of the Citizens State Bank, and a director of the Ruder Brewing Company. >Ir. Mehl was president of the board of trustees of the Marathon County Asylum for six years and has frequently served on other charitable boards and benevolent committees. He is president of the German-American Alliance. In 1873 Mr. Mehl was married to Miss Mary Schuetz and five children were born to them: Mary, who is the wife of George Falch, of Merrill, Wis.; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Otto Fehlhaber, cashier of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company; Annie, who is the wife of Hans Mehl, who lives at Milwaukee ; Lena, who is the wife of Charles Genshin, a wholesale leather dealer; and Hattie, who conducts a millinery business in this city. Mr. Mehl and family belong to St. Stephen's church.

EDWARD C. KRETLOW, who is president of the Marathon County Abstract Company, with ofifices in the First National Bank Building at Wausau, Wis., has been a resident of this city for forty-six years and his interests, business, social and political, are mainly centered here. He was born at Milwaukee, Wis., July 22, 1852, and is a son of Edward and Fredericka (Schmidt) Kretlow.

During the first fourteen years of life, Mr. Kretlow lived in his native city and attended school there. His father was a music director and as a professional man came to Wausau with his family in 1866, but one and one-half years later returned to Milwaukee. In 1871 Edward C. Kretlow came back to Wausau and this city has continued his home ever since. Prior to this he had learned the cigar making trade, in Milwaukee, and established a factory of his own at Wausau, in which business he remained interested for thirty-two years and then disposed of his interests in that direction. During eight years he was a bookkeeper for the firm of Heinemann Bros., from 1880 until 1888, and was then elected, on the Democratic ticket, city clerk, and remained in that position through two terms, and for the fourteen succeeding years was register of deeds for Marathon county. Still earlier than above mentioned, Mr. Kretlov; had served officially, from 1874 until 1878 having been deputy circuit court clerk, and in all positions of trust and responsibility has fully met expectation and performed his duties in an efificient and satisfactory manner. After retiring from public service, Mr. Kretlow embarked in his present line of business and is president of the Marathon County Abstract Company, dealing in real estate, insurance and collections.

Mr. Kretlow married Miss Johanna Staege, who was born in Dodge county, Wis., and they have one son, Louis J. Mr. Kretlow has identified himself with the Odd Fellows and the order of United Workmen and belongs also to the Royal Arcanum. He is recognized as a sound, reliable business man and in every way is a representative citizen of Wausau.

OTTO G. FEHLHABER, a well known financier of Marathon county, Wis., who has been secretary of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company, at Wausau, Wis., for the past four and one-half years, had previously had bank connections and is experienced along this line. He was born in Marathon county. May 12, 1872, and is a son of August and Amelia (PHsch) Fehlhaber.

Otto G. Fehlhaber was reared in his native county and was educated in the country schools and the Wausau High School, after which he taught school very acceptably for three years, during which period he enlarged his circle of friends in the county and cemented friendships that have continued ever since. He then accepted a clerkship in the office of the county judge and also was clerk in the land ofifice under Judge Marchetti and from that connection entered the office of Mylrea, Marchetti & Bird, attorneys, where he pursued law studies but has never asked admittance to the bar although well qualified, his subsequent interests and activities lying in another direction. For four and one-half years he was cashier of the bank at Edgar, Wis., and then came to the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company.

Mr. Felhhaber married Miss Elizabeth Mehl, of Wausau, Wis., and they have two children: Esther and Orville. He is identified fraternally with the Knights of Pythias and socially with the Wausau Club.

ERNST RINGLE, who is one of Marathon county's substantial men and representative citizens, resides on his farm of 240 acres situated in sections 34, 29 and 5-east, in the town of Rib Falls, four and one-half miles northwest of Marathon City. He was born in the town of Herman, Dodge county, AVis., July 19, 1867, and is a son of Carl and Johanna (Erdmann) Ringle. The father was born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to America when eight years of age. In early manhood he married Johanna Erdmann, who was also born in Germany, and they had five sons, Ernst being one of twins.

Ernst Ringle attended first a parochial school in the town of Herman and afterward was sent to college at Galena, 111., following which he taught three terms of school in the town of Rib Falls, Marathon county. Here, in April, 1893, he was married to Miss Augusta Rux, a daughter of David and Minnie (Kunarski) Rux. The parents of Mrs. Ringle were natives of Germany. The mother died at Rib Falls when aged sixty-eight years but the father lives, and still resides there. Mr. and Mrs. Ringle have four children: Herbert, Elvira, Milliard and Marvin.

After marriage Mr. Ringle settled on his present farm. At that time there were twenty acres cut over and a log house, 18x24 feet, a barn, 24x60 feet, and a stable, 18x42 feet on the place. Mr. Ringle brought his horses and wagon and immediately started improvements and now has sixty acres under cultivation and forty acres cleared for pasture. He grows about the average amount of grain for the land cultivated and has fine stock and cattle, his herd of Holsteins being exceptionally valuable. He has other business interests, being a stockholder in the Marathon County Telephone Company, a stockholder and a director in the Marathon Bank, and since July, 1907, is secretary of the Marathon City Brewing Company and is also a stockholder in the Farmers Union of Marathon county. He is secretary of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company, an office he has held since January 2, 1895, being the third incumbent in this company, which was established in 1876. He also keeps the minutes and books for the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Ringle and family belong to the Lutheran church, of which he is secretary and treasurer. He is now serving in his eighth year as chairman of the town of Rib Falls and member of the county board and since July 5, 1892, has served continuously as clerk of School District No. 5. He also serves as a justice of the peace. He has been and still is one of his town's busiest and most useful and reliable men.

FRANK SCHUBERT, proprietor of a shoe store and shoe repair shop at Athens, Wis., is one of the enterprising young business men of the village, where he is" the only exclusive shoe merchant. He was

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Frank Schubert attended the excellent schools of his native land and then learned the shoemaking trade which he has continued to be interested in ever since. He was twenty years old when he came to the United States and directly to Athens, Wis., where he remained for two years and then went to Chicago, 111., and worked there until 1906, when he returned to Athens and established his present business. He carries a well assorted stock of footwear and has installed modern machinery in his repair shop. In 1910 Mr. Schubert was married to Miss Anna Frieders, who was born at Appleton, Wis., a daughter of Philip and Lucy (Miller) Frieders, who still reside at Appleton, where the father follows the trade of brick mason. Mr. and Mrs. Schubert have one daughter, Dorothy Anna. They are members of the Catholic church. He belongs to three well known fraternal organizations: .the Eagles, the Maccabees and the Beavers.

EMIL DERN, assessor of the town of Rib Falls and a general farmer living on his 160 acres situated in section 2, six miles north and one mile west of Marathon City, was born at Wausau, Wis., June 14, 1875, and is a son of Henry and Henrietta (Heise) Dern. Henry Dern and wife were born in Germany where thev were reared and married and were about twenty-one years old when they came to Wisconsin. Henry Dern was the second settler in the city of Wausau. He died when aged sixty-two years, his wife passing away in her fifty-eighth year. They had nine sons and of this family Emil is the only survivor.

Emil Dern attended school in boyhood in District No. i, Rib Falls, and afterward worked for three years at the carpenter trade and for six years remained on a farm in the summers and worked in the woods through the winters. Following his marriage he lived for seven years in Marathon City and from there came to his present farm, of which he has cleared fifteen acres himself. He has made all the excellent improvements here including the erection of all the buildings except the house and has a very comfortable and attractive home.

In November, 1899, Mr. Dern was married to Miss Alvina Rux, who was bom in the town of Rib Falls, a daughter of David and Minnie Kanuski Rux, both of whom were born in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Dern have three children: Verna, Florence and Kermit. The family belongs to the Lutheran church. In politics Mr. Dern has been identified with the Republican party for many years and occasionally has accepted public office, but has been more interested in raising high grade cattle. He is a member of the Farmers' Produce Company of Marathon City, is a member of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company and is a stockholder in the Marathon Bank.

HERMAN GEORGE FLIETH, cashier of the National German American Bank of Wausau, has been a resident of W^ausau for twenty-seven years and his business connections during this long- period have been of great importance. He was born at Sheboygan, \Vis., February 26, 1861, and is a son of Fred and Katherine (Haefner) Flieth.

The parents of Mr. Flieth were of foreign birth, the father a native of Prussia and the mother of Baden, Germany. They came to America and to Wisconsin in the early fifties and settled at Sheboygan, where the father entered the employ of the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railroad, now a part of the Chicago & Northwestern system. He assisted in some of the surveys and later helped to survey the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad and was with these roads for a number of years. ""He resided at Sheboygan until his death in 1906, aged seventy-one years. The mother survi\'ed two years more although seven years older. Two sons were bom in the family : Herman George and John, four years intervening. John Flieth died in 1905, having been a railroad man all his life.

Herman George Flieth was educated in the public and parochial schools at Sheboygan, attending until he was fifteen years of age. He then became a railroad employe working with the construction department and after the completion of the road was made freight check clerk and later baggagemaster. He climbed steadily upward, beginning railroad life as water boy on a gravel train and later found time to learn telegraphy, holding the position as felegraph operator at Shebyogan several years. Mr. Flieth came first to ^^'ausau, in 1880, and, as agent, took charge of the office for the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western, now the Chicago & Northwestern, and continued until May i, 1887. In that year he was sent to Milwaukee as commercial agent for the same road and remained almost six years or luitil 1893, when he resigned his position with the railroad company in order to accept that of cashier of the National German American Bank, with which he has been continuously identified ever since. During this time the capital of the bank has been increased from $100,000 to $300,000 and its deposits from $175,000 to a million and three quarters. Other business connections of Mr. Flieth are as follows: Treasurer of the \\^ausau Canning Company; treasurer of the Wausau Quartz Company; secretary and treasurer of the Peth Candy Company; president of the Thompson & Flieth Lumber Company, located at Cornucopia, Wis. ; secretary and treasurer of the Wausau Realty and Loan Company; treasurer of the Marathon County Building, Loan and Investment Association, and treasurer of the Wisconsin Bankers' Association. On June 17, 1880, Mr. Flieth was married to Miss Mary Harsch, a daughter of Adam Harsch, of Sheboygan, Wis., and they have two children : Walter N. and Mabel. Walter H. Flieth, who was educated in the public schools of Wausau and took a business course after leaving the High School, has charge of the Thompson & Flieth Lumber Company at Cornucopia, Wis. He married Miss Matie Mitchell, of Oshkosh, and they have three children: Herman George, Jr., Cornelia and Charles William. Miss Mabel Flieth attended the public schools and later both Downer and Carroll Colleges. Mrs. Flieth died January 3, 1910. She was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church, to which Mr. Flieth also belongs, and of which he has been a trustee many years, but was reared in the German Reformed faith. In his political views Mr. Flieth is a Republican, but no seeker for office, the extent of his public ser\'ice being as trustee and treasurer of the Public Library. For years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the thirty-second degree and is treasurer of Omer Commandery and Masonic Temple. He belongs also to the Knights of Pythias and to the Wausau City and the Wausau Country Clubs.

EDWARD HEIMAXX, proprietor of the Washington Hotel at Wausau. a Avell appointed hostelry which ^Ir. Heimann erected in 1888 and still owns, has made this city his home for thirty-nine years. He was born in Germany, December 15, 1855, and was sixteen years old when he left his native land for America, landing at New Orleans, La., in 1872, in the fall of the same year reaching Marathon county, W^is.

For several years after coming to Marathon county, Mr. Heimann worked in the woods after which, in 1874, he came to Wausau, found steady employment and saved his money and in 1886 started for himself in the saloon business. In 1888 he erected the Washington Hotel and operated the same for a number of years then rented it and retired from the business, taking up his residence in his beautiful home which stands on Grand avenue. Here he has almost three acres of land and he has taken a great deal of enjoyment in experimenting in the growing of different plants and has won considerable reputation on account of his success with tobacco, being the only planter in the county to raise it with profit. In the summer of 1912 Mr. Heimann again took charge of his hotel and found the public glad to see him once more its genial host.

In 1886 Mr. Heimann was married to Miss Minnie Krueger, who was born in Germany and was three years old when her parents, Capt. William Krueger and wife, brought her to Wausau. Mrs. Krueger survives but Captain Krueger, who was captain of the German Veteran Association, died in 1893, aged fifty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Heimann have three surviving children : Meta, Edward and Arthur. Those deceased were : William, who was accidentally killed by the kick of a horse when aged about six years ; Olga, who died when aged three months ; Freda, who died at the age of six months; Lilly, who lived to the age of eighteen months; and Helen, whose short life span was one year and eight months. Mr. Heimann is a member of the fraternal and social organization known as The Druids.

WALTER E. PIERCE, who is superintendent of one of the large industrial plants of Wausau, the Curtis & Yale, manufacturers of sash, doors, etc., is one of Wausau's best known and valued citizens, having been identified with many things of importance in this city. He is a member of the Wausau School Board and is also serving as alderman representing the Sixth ward. He was born at Princeton, Wis., June 17, 1865, and is a son of Jonathan Pierce.

Walter E. Pierce was three years old when his parents moved to Mcintosh Mill, Marathon county. In the following spring they came to Wausau, and when thirteen years old he went to Merrill, Wis., lived there three years and then returned to Wausau. He had very little chance to attend school. When he took his future in his own hands, all his earthly possessions were wrapped in a newspaper, and thus he started on foot for Merrill, Wis. There the brave boy secured work in the office of the Northern Wisconsin News and remained as printer's devil for one and one-half years, in the meanwhile absorbing considerable knowledge of the trade. After that he was employed in the office of the Lincoln County Advocate, also at Merrill, afterward returning to the News and completed his apprenticeship. In the fall of 1881 Mr. Pierce came to Wausau and went to work for Curtis & Yale, who were then installing machinery for their large plant and when operations began in February, 1882, Mr. Pierce returned to the company as a machine operator, at wages of one dollar a day. This is indeed a contrast to the position he occupies with the same company today as superintendent over its force of 400 men. Through all departments he rose step b}^ step and has been continuously with the company with the exception of an interval of four years, during a part of this time, from April, 1896, to April, 1898, he served in the office of chief of police at

Wausau, under Mayor Anderson and Mayor McEachron. He moved then to Milwaukee where he was with the Northwestern Railroad for two years, returning then to the Curtis & Yale people.

Mr. Pierce was married to Miss Catherine Saurbrei, of Kingston, Wis., and they have three children : Gertrude, Ethel and Erwin. The eldest daughter is assistant librarian of the Wausau Public Library, while the second daughter has charge of the typewriting room in the Wausau High School. Mr. Pierce, notwithstanding his early disadvantages, has made steady progress in life from his lonely boyhood and there are few men who can, at present, more readily find friends on every hand. He has been so useful as a citizen that once he was elected to membership on the county board and is now serving in his third term as alderman of his ward. He was one of the earliest members of the E. F. U., an organization which has grown, in the last few years, into one of much prominence in Wisconsin.

FRANK F. ZIELSDORF, who has been chief of the Wausau Fire Department since the fall of 1909 and a member of this brave and effective organization for about twenty-five years, is one of Wausau's best known and most respected and useful citizens. He has lived here for forty-one years but was born in Germany, January 30, 1870, and is a son of William and Louise Zielsdorf, who brought him here when two years old. The father settled on the west side and Chief Zielsdorf has always lived in this section of the city. The father died in 1891 but the mother survives being now in her eighty-first year. She is well known and much beloved in the west side and has always retained, more or less, her thrifty, wholesome German customs.

Frank F. Zielsdorf obtained his education in the public schools and then went to work with the firm of Curtis Bros., now Curtis & Yale, in their sash and door factory, where he remained for eight years. He was one of the early members of the volunteer fire department and after the pay system came in and the department was made a part of the city government, he was made second assistant chief at the West Side Fire House. In 1907 he was appointed first assistant chief and in 1909 he succeeded Chief Miller as City Fire Chief, a responsible office for which he is admirably qualified in every way and he has the high regard of his fellow citizens as well as the confidence and admiration of his men.

Chief Zielsdorf married Miss Ida Kuhlmann, who was born in Washington county, Wis., and came from there to Wausau with her parents at the age of twelve years and was educated here. Her father, John C.

Kuhlmann, is assistant postmaster of Wausau. The following children have been born to Chief and Mrs. Zielsdorf: Florence, Earl, Lucile, Byron, Frank and Margaret. Florence and Frank both died in infancy. Chief Zielsdorf is a member of the Order of Owls and of the E. F. U.

GUSTAV A. SCHOCHOW, one of the large realty owners at Wausau and the well known proprietor of the blacksmith shop on the corner of Scott and Second streets, is a citizen whose absence for many reasons would be noted by his fellow citizens, for he has occupied his present stand for thirty years, and it is, thus, in a way, one of the city's landmarks. He was born at Wausau, March lo, 1871, and is a son of Otto and Augusta Schochow.

Otto Schochow was born in Germany, January i, 1841, and came to the United States in June, 1867, settling at once at Wausau, Wis. He purchased a blacksmith shop of Charles Klein, one of the pioneers here, which was situated on Clark's Island. He became one of the sterling men of Wausau, carried on his blacksmith business more or less all his life and acquired property, and his death in 1902, was a matter of regret to many and such men as Judge Marchetti acted as pall-bearers on the occasion of his funeral. In January, 1869, he married Miss Augusta Marquardt, who was born also at Pomern, Germany, and they had eight children : Bertha, Gustav, Martha, Robert, Otto, Emma, and Delia and Anna.

Gustav A. Schochow was reared at \\^ausau and obtained his education in the city schools. As soon as he was old enough he began to assist his father in the shop and in the course of years became known as an expert horse-shoer and for many years has been in this business. He owns the whole block in which his establishment is situated, running from Second street 120 feet west and within this boundary are also located the Duncan harness shop, the Bijou Theater and a saloon.

Mr. Schochow married Miss Bertha Sorges of Wausau, and they have one son, Wilbert. They are members of St. Stephen's church. He belongs to several fraternal and beneficiary organizations, including the Royal Arcanum, the Yeomen and the Eagles.

EDWARD L. PINE, plumbing and heating contractor, with place of business at No. 116 Gallon street, \\'ausau, is a thoroughly experienced man in this line, having been in business for himself since 1896. He was born at Eureka, Wis., May 21, 1879, and is a son of John and Ruth Pine. When he was two years old his parents moved to Omro,

Edward L. Pine was reared and attended school at Omro and for eight months worked at the blacksmith trade with his father and brother. After leaving home he worked in mining camps as a miner in the northern part of Wisconsin, and from there engaged as assistant cook in lumber camps in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, for two winters, after which, for several months he was fireman in a saw mill and might have continued there had not a freshet come that destroyed two bridges and carried 80,000,000 feet of lumber down the river, this catastrophe closing all the mills. Mr. Pine then went to Minneapohs where he became an apprentice with the firm of Hobart & W^illis, plumbers and heating contractors, and there learned his trade and afterward worked in various places as a journeyman until 1896, when he established himself in the plumbing and heatiag business at Columbus Wis., where he remained until 1905, when he came to Wausau. At all times ]Mr. Pine has been an industrious man and through his energy has been successful in whatever he has undertaken. At present he has a heavy trade and many important contracts and is held in such high regard by his trade associates that on January 13, 191 3, he was a second time elected president of the W^ausau Master Plumbers' Association, and is also president of the Central Wisconsin Sanitary & Benevolent Social Club which comprises Master Plumbers from ten dififerent cities.

Mr. Pine was married at Columbus, Wis., to Miss Clara E. Moll, and they have two children : Laurence Edward and Dorothy Ruth. Mr. Pine is a member of several fraternal organizations including the Modern Woodmen, the Knights of Pythias and the E. F. U.

JOHN L. KOMERS, proprietor of "The Leader," one of the large mercantile establishments at Wausau, has been in business in this city for the past twenty years. He was born at ^lilwaukee, Wis., January 26, 1864, and is a son of Joseph and Anna Komers. In the infancy of their son they moved to Grant county and settled on a farm and in 1872 removed to Muscoda, Wis.

John L. Komers secured his educational training in the public schools but left home when thirteen years of age, deciding to make his own way in the world. He found work on a farm and also in a store in the home neighborhood, then went to Dakota and worked there for a short time on a farm and finally drifted to Omaha and even as far east as Chicago.

All this time he realized that upon his own efforts depended his advancement in life and when he came to Wausau in September, 1892, it was with a definite plan of entering his present line of business. He established a five and ten cent store beginning in a small way in the building that he has occupied for twenty years, all of which he at present utilizes, including the basement. A general line of merchandise is now carried and some sixteen clerks and helpers are employed all the year round. He is proprietor of the business and has his brother, Joseph F., associated with him as manager.

Mr. Komers married Miss Pauline Ringle. of \\'ausau, and they have three children: Madeline, Lester and Paula. He has been an active and public spirited citizen and served two years as a member of the city council, representing the Fourth Ward. He is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America.

AUGUST BOETTCHER, proprietor of the City Hotel, located on the corner of Washington and Sixth streets, Wausau, is one of Wausau's much respected and well known citizens, having lived here for more than twenty years. He was born in Germany, August 3, 1846 and came to America in 1873.

In his own land Mr. Boettcher was a tailor but after coming to the United States he found conditions of living different and the opportunities for his business success lay in another direction than his trade. He had served four years in the German army and was strong and robust and soon after coming to Wisconsin he went to work at lumbering and for eighteen years was a lumber grader for Scott's mill at Merrill, Wis. He had already spent some time at Wausau and then returned here and bought the City Hotel property, which he operated for sixteen years but has now shifted his responsibilities to his son Frank, who has had the father's excellent training for the position. The City Hotel is a well kept hostelry, a two-story brick building, with twenty guest rooms, all fitted with modern comforts in the way of hot water, light and baths, and the house has a fine line of patronage, the public realizing that their hosts do all in their power to make visitors comfortable.

Mr. Boettcher married Miss Elizabeth Steller, who was born in New York but since girlhood has been a resident of Wausau. They have two children: Frank, who was born at Merrill, W^is., September 2, 1882, and is his father's very capable manager; and Caroline, who is the wife of Fred Brach, and they have two children : Vera and Evelyn.

REV. WILLIAM SPIEGEL, pastor of St. Stephanus German Evangelical Lutheran church, at Wausau, Wis., is generally recognized as one of the ablest, most zealous and scholarly members of the Lutheran clergy in the state. He was born at Ridgeway, Lenawee county, Mich., September 9, 1876, and is a son of Carl and Ernesta (Breahmer) Spiegel.

Carl Spiegel was born in Germany and was given excellent educational advantages there. He was reared on a farm and continued to engage in agricultural pursuits after coming to the United States when twenty-three years of age. At Ridgeway, Mich., he married Ernesta Breahmer, who was also born in Germany, a daughter of Frederick Breahmer, who spent his last years at Ridgeway, where his venerable widow still lives. Carl Spiegel and wife now live retired at Blissfield, Mich. Of their family of eight children seven are living and William was the first born.

William Spiegel first attended the public school in Lenawee county but the instruction secured there did not satisfy his craving.-for knowledge and when sixteen years of age he entered the Lutheran college at Waverly, la., where he remained until he was graduated, after which, for three years he was a student in the Lutheran Seminary, at Dubuque, la., graduating with the class of 1900. He immediately entered upon ministerial work and was assigned to a large mission field at Swanton, O., where he worked with faithfulness and encouraging success for five years. He then accepted a call to Versailles, Ind., and remained there for five years, in the fall of 1910 coming to St. Stephanus, at Wausau. In every field he has added to the material prosperity of the parish over which he has had charge and has increased membership, and at Versailles not only remodeled the church edifice but built a parochial school house. Since coming to his present charge he has aroused interest in every line of church work with the result of a larger congregation and such an addition to the school that an additional teacher has been required. He is wise, sympathetic and judicial in his communication with his congregation and his display of thoughtful care for both the material and spiritual life of his people has won their respect and affection.

In 1901 Rev. Spiegel was married to Miss Amelia Esslinger, a daughter of Charles Esslinger, of Dubuque, la., and they have six children, namely: Rosa, Carl, John. Werner, Ruth and Weaker.

manufacture of sofe drinks, soda water and weiss beer, and deals wholesale in glassware, bar supplies and lunch goods, having fine quarters at Nos. 1 502-1 506 Third street. The brothers established this business in 1900 and so prospered that in 1910 the wholesale department was added. They have six men employed in their factory and have a traveling representative introducing their goods in other sections.

Nicholas Remmell born on a farm in Washington county. Wis., October 15, 1870, and is a son of John Remmell, who was born in Germany and accompanied his parents to America when aged seven years. John Remmell married Barbara Glaeser who was born in Washington county, Wis. Mr. Remmell and brother attended the country schools and continued on the home farm until they established their present flourishing business at Wausau. Their reputation as honest and rehable dealers was built up at the beginning and has been steadfastly maintained.

GEORGE F. RICK, who, for the past six years has been conducting his grocery business at No. 608 Third street, Wausau, has been a resident here since 1873 and is one of the city's successful self-made men. He was born in the village of Waterloo, Mo., twenty-five miles south of St. Louis, June 28, 1861, and is a son of John and ^lary Rick. His father died when he was young and his mother subsequently removed to Southern Wisconsin.

It seems a hard fate when a boy of but ten years finds himself entirely dependent upon his own resources, as was the case with George F. Rick, and not every child so situated possesses the determination and confidence in himself that enable him to steadily face the future and work out his own salvation. He came to Wausau in 1873, with a capital of ten cents in his pocket but of courage in his heart and immediately accepted an offer to work for his board in the Clark & Sweeney drug store. Shortly afterward Mr. Sweeney sold out to Mr. Clark and so useful did George F. Rick prove himself that he remained,' under more favorable contract, with Mr. Clark, for four years. His next employer was E. M. Mott, who hired the youth to work on his homestead in the woods of Marathon county, for fifteen dollars a month. So far from all that money could buy, Mr. Rick had no occasion to spend his earnings and therefore at the end of eighteen months, when he left Mr. Mott, had a little capital. He came back then to Wausau and went to work for John Gebhardt, in the grocery busineTSs, with whom he continued for ten years and afterward was with John Kiefer for two years. He then opened a small store of his own, on the corner of Forest and Grand avenue, where he remained for two years and then, in partnership with WilUam Gilham, bought out the meat market of Edward Neibower, on Forest Street and they enlarged the meat business so that at one time they were conducting three markets. In 1907 Mr. Rick and Mr. Gilham dissolved partnership and since that time has confined himself to his grocery business at his present location. His story of business success is interesting for all that it tells and \ov what it indicates and it may be added that he was able to provide a home for his mother soon after he came to Wausau and provided for her as long as she lived.

Mr. Rick married Miss Adele Young, daughter of A. W. Young, who was formerly editor of the Deutsch Pioneer and once postmaster of Wausau. They have three children : George, Norman and Mark. While never an active politician, Mr. Rick has always been a close observer of passing events and has been an interested citizen willing toaccept a citizen's responsibilities in upholding the laws. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, identified with the Wausau body.

FRANK E. CHARTIER, deceased, for a number of years was one of the best known men in the insurance business in this section of Wisconsin, and organized the Chartier Insurance Agency at Wausau, of which he was the head, his partner being his only son, Ray E. Chartier. He was succeeded in business by his son and his widow, Mrs. Louise Chartier, and the firm name remained the Chartier Insurance Agency. Frank E. Chartier was born at Farmington, Jefiferson county. Wis., February 15, 1852, and was a son of Francis and Lucinda Chartier.

Francis Chartier was one of the early settlers in southern Wisconsin, coming to the state when a large part of it was practically a wilderness. He secured a small tract of land on which he built a log cabin, and subsequently added to his possessions until in the course of time he became a man of substance and a prosperous farmer. When his active period was over he and wife retired to Oconomowoc, where his death occurred in 1895, and that of his widow two years later.

Frank E. Chartier was reared on the home farm and remained with his parents until he was twenty-five years of age, in the meanwhile attending the country schools. For two years after leaving home he traveled in the interests of a marble firm of Logansport, Ind., but a serious attack of typhoid fever interrupted his business career at that time and he returned home.

After regaining his normal health he embarked in the fami implement business and conducted it for two years, then went into the coal and grain business at Oconomovvoc and remained so engaged until 1893 when he came to Wausau. Here he was interested in the life insurance business for a time? but later turned his entire attention to fire insurance and dealing in real estate. At that time, on account of the excessive high rates the citizens organized a Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with the active assistance of Mr. Chartier, and this organization existed for two years when, its object having been accomplished, the lowering of rates, it was sold to a stock company. The Chartier Insurance Agency handles insurance, real estate and loans, making a specialty of improved, cut-over and timber lands. As illustrative of the confidence placed in the firm, the following list is gi\en of the old line companies represented: Germania, Girard Fire and Marine, Glens Falls, Boston, Agricultural, City of New York, Dubuque Fire and Marine, Prussian National, National Lumber, Farmers of York, Williamsburgh. Western, Pittsburgh Underwriters, County Fire of Philadelphia, Williamsburgh City, Allemannia of Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Ben Franklin. German of Indiana, Security of Iowa, United States and the Central National. As an able, honest, and upright business man Mr. Chartier secured and preserved the respect and esteem of all who had relations with him. His death occurred at his home in Wausau, January 10, 1912, when he was aged fiftynine years.

In 1883, in Jefferson county. Wis., Mr. Chartier was married to Miss Louise Muck, who was born and reared there, a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Winterling) Muck. The father of Mrs. Chartier was a dealer in meats and live stock. His death occurred in 1872. The mother resides with Mrs. Chartier at \\'ausau, being now aged eighty years. One son, Ray E., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chartier. After attending High School and business college Ray E. Chartier became associated with his father when seventeen years of age. He married Miss Chalmers Mclnnis and they ha\e one child, Frank E., named for his grandfather and great-grandfather. Frank E. Chartier was a Mason and took much interest in fraternal matters.

AUGUST C. NETZEL, who is doing a prosperous business as manufacturer of cigars, with factory at No. 221 Third street, Wausau, Wis., has been engaged in his present business in this city since 1907, but has been a resident since 1902. H« was born in the village of Caroline, in .Shawano county, \\'is., February 6, 1882 and is a son of William and

August C. Netzel was educated in the village schools and his first industrial employment was as a shingle maker, but for 13 years he has been working at the cigar trade, which he learned with the firm of P. A. Machalis & Son, of Marion, Wis. As above stated he came to Wausau in 1902 and entered the employ of A. L. Kryshak, with whom he remained about five years. In 1907 he, in partnership with Gustav Krueger, established a cigar manufacturing business at No. 506 First street, removal being made to the present location in October, 191 1. Since January i, 1912 Mr. Netzel has been the sole proprietor. He does an extensive business, keeping from six to eight employes, and his specialties are the Great American, the distinguishing mark of which is a portrait of George \\'ashingtbn, and the Triangle, the former retailing at ten and the latter at five cents. Both are in great demand all over central Wisconsin.

Mr. Netzel married Miss Emma Bartels, a daughter of Jacob Bartels, a former builder and contractor at Wausau, and they have two children, Evelyn and Anita. Mr. Netzel is identified fraternally with the order of Eagles. He is a musician of recognized talent, his favorite instruments being the violin and clarinet, and he has played with the C. S. Cone band and orchestra of Wausau.

HERMAN W. KILIAN, who is one of Marathon county's substantial citizens, resides on his valuable farm of 200 acres, sitiuated in section 25, town of Berlin, of which town he has been a justice of the peace for eight years. He was born in the town of Greenfield, Milwaukee county. Wis., September 8, 1862. He attended school in Dodge county. Wis., later the Northwestern College at Watertown and the Lutheran Seminary at Milwaukee, and in 1885 came to the town of Berlin, where he has since made his home.

On June 11, 1886, Mr. Kilian was married to Miss Matilda Nass, who was born in the town of Berlin, a daughter of Edward and Fredricka (Rollenhagen) Nass, the latter of whom was a daughter of Peter Rollenhagen, who came to the town of Berlin in 1856 as one of the first settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Kilian have the following children: Olga, Otto, Walter, Else, Ewald, Margaretta and Herbert. Mr. Kilian and family belong to the Evangelical Lutheran church of which he is one of the trustees. Of the home farm 120 acres have been cleared, Mr. Kilian having cleared forty acres himself and has also put up the substantial buildings and made other improvements on the place. This property lies ten miles northwest of Wausau. In politics Mr. Kilian is a Republican. He is interested in several local enterprises and is a member of the Berlin Insurance Company.

FRANK J. GAETZMAX, who has been a resident of Wausau, Wis., for a quarter of a century and is prominent in political and fraternal circles in Marathon county, was born in Kewaunee county, Wis., June 19, 1871, a son of Peter and Regina Gaetzman. He was reared at Green Bay, Wis., and from there came to Wausau, where he engaged in the hotel business, and six years later he opened his palm garden, which he has conducted for the past eleven years. He is one of Wausau's public spirited and liberal handed men. Politically a republican, he has served in many party offices and in 1910 was his party's candidate for sherifif. For the past six years he has been a member of the county board from the First Ward and carefully watches the city's interests.

Mr. Gaetzman was married at Wausau to Miss Celia Fruechtl and they have three children: Liparda, Esther and Margaret. The family belong to the Catholic church. ]\Ir. Gaetzman has been very active in the Catholic order of Foresters and at present is chief ranger and deputy high chief ranger of this district. He is also state vice president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and is personally and officially known all over this part of Wisconsin.

WILBUR J. ZOCHERT. who is one of the proprietors of the monment and marble works on the corner of Fifth and Jackson streets, Wausau, Wisconsin, is the junior member of the firm of W. J. Zochert Company, the present location of the firm having been a marble yard for twenty-five years. He was born in this city, July 22, 1885, and is a son of W. R. and Carrie Zochert.

Wilbur J. Zochert was educated in the Wausau public schools. For several years afterward he worked for the Wausau Novelty Works and then started to learn the monument and marble business, with his uncle J. P. Zochert, who at that time was the owner of his present shop. In 1906 he started into business for himself, in partnership with Jacob Empter, and they occupied the building that adjoined the St. Paul's church on Washington street, until 1908, when removal was made to Clinton street. In March, 1912 they secured their present desirable

In 1909 Mr. Zochert was married to Miss Emma Joyade, of Wausau, and they have two children: Marion and Earl. Mr. Zochert belongs to the following organizations: the D. A. V. V., the W. O. W., Commercial Club, Amitie Club, and the T. I. C. He is numbered with the enterprising and successful young business men of this city.

HON. ROBERT E. PARCHER, whose death took place in Wausau, Wisconsin, December 4, 1907, was for many years one of the most substantial business men of this place and one of its most esteemed citizens. He was born at Troy, Vermont, December 6, 1838, a son of Robert and Lucretia G. (Kenny) Parcher, and was reared and educated at Morrisville, Lamoille county, Vt., whence he came to Wausau in the spring of 1858. For eighteen months after his arrival here he was employed as clerk by the firm of Taylor & Ellis, and when Mr. Ellis retired soon afterward, Mr. Parcher succeeded him in the firm. Later he succeeded to Thomas Taylor's interests in the business and conducted it alone until July, 1876, when he admitted George Fernald as a partner.

From the time he first came to Wausau Mr. Parcher's activities were mainly devoted to the lumber business. For five years he was president of the Boone Company and he was one of the founders of the Wausau Lumber Company, which was engaged in the manufacture of shingles on Trapp river. After disposing of his interest in the shingle mill Mr. Parcher gave some attention to farming and also to mercantile interests. Early recognized as a man of sterling integrity and force of character, he was at different times tendered various public offices. He served as city assessor and as a member of the city board and later became postmaster, during this time conducting a general store.' In 1891 he was elected mayor of Wausau and served until the spring of 1894, being twice re-elected. In his later years he kept up his interest in public matters but became independent in his political views. He was frequently called upon, as a representative man, to fill temporary civic positions along the lines of benevolence or public safety.

On June 12, 1865, Mr. Parcher was married to Miss Mary H. Single, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Taylor) Single, who were natives of the county of Hertford, England. Charles Single, with his brother Benjamin, came to America in 1836 and they went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they remained until 1844. They then made their way to the Wisconsin pineries, where they worked together for a time, after which Charles Single came to Wausau and built the Forest House for hotel purposes, on Third street, of which he was proprietor until it was destroyed by fire in 1878. He served a number of terms in the city council and was a useful and respected citizen. He died April 30, 1880, at the age of 58 years, and was survived by his wife, and children as follows: Benjamin T., now deceased; Mary H. (Mrs. Parcher) ; Alice, who is the widow of A. L. Fitzer, a former citizen of Wausau ; Josephine, wife of J. Baldwin, of Wausau; Henry, who resides at Antigo; Letitia, wife of Charles E. Dunbar, of Wausau, and Charles, who is a resident of the state of Washington. The mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Single, died at Wausau, June 24, 1897, at the age of 69 years. Mrs. Parcher is a member of the Episcopal church. She resides in a beautiful home on Third street and is a prominent memljcr of tlie best society of Wausau.

ROBERT PLISCH. who was born in Prussia, April 7, 1845, came with his parents to America in 1856 and to Marathon county, through many hardships, in the same year, and there are few men better known or more highly respected in this section. His valuable farm of 160 acres is situated in section 29, town of Berlin, his residence being nine miles north and east of Marathon City. His parents were Gottleib and Caroline (Grosse) Plisch, who left their native land with their children and came to the United States, taking passage on the ship Delmach, commanded by Captain Schroeder. Although many hundreds of individuals crossed the Atlantic ocean at that time, the usual carrying vessels were not fitted up for human beings as well as are the cattle ships of the present day and what the voyagers endured during the ten long weeks of the voyage would take many pages to tell. After finally landing in the harbor of New York, they were able to secure conveyance to Fond du Lac, W^isconsin, but still were far from their eighty acres of government land which was situated in section 32, town of Berlin, Marathon county.

In their own land Mr. and Mrs. Plisch, had been accustomed to comfort and were prepared for lack of luxur\' but it is doubtful if they ever imagined the hardships the\- would have to endure in the pioneering which they had undertaken. As there were no conveyances to be secured the parents and the children had to walk, not along the fine highways that are now provided in every direction, but through a pathless tract of timber and six weeks were required to cut a road.

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At first they made cakes of flour and water but the flour gave out and for two days parents and children kept alive on bass wood leaves and an occasional berry. Fortunately the first winter proved mild as their house was one of Indian style, made of boughs and poles and covered only with leaves. Gottleib Plisch was a well educated man and immediately began to agitate the starting of schools and for several years taught school in Marathon county and may, possibly, have been the first county superintendent of schools, and was chairman of the town of Berlin when its territory reached to Lake Superior. He lived into his eighty-third year, his wife passing away in her seventy-sixth year and their burial was in the Lutheran cemetery one mile east of their son's farm. The following children were born in Europe: Emelia, Oswald, Robert, Bertha, Mary, Paulina and Emma, while two more, Eda and Albert, were born in Marathon county.

Under such conditions as above indicated, Robert Plisch, spent his early years in Wisconsin. The first school he attended was at Fond du Lac and the next one was in a cabin in which three families lived. In the morning the beds occupied were piled in a corner so that school sessions could go on and at night the cabin became again the sleeping place of the families. The benches were made of rough bass logs and a half window admitted light. Afterward Mr. Plisch worked in saw mill and on farm, teaching school during the winter season, probably about twelve terms. His first land purchase was in the town of Stettin, which he subsequently traded for his present farm which was then owned by his parents, this has been almost entirely improved by Mr. Plisch. He makes a specialty of growing thoroughbred Holstein cattle.

On April 14, 1872, Mr. Plisch was married to Miss Augusta Mathurig who was born in Europe and after coming to the United States lived for five years in Ohio prior to coming to Wisconsin. The following children have been born to them: Albert, who lives at Hamburg; Bertha, who is the wife of Adolf Zilsdorfif, of Swift county, Minnesota; Emma,, who is the wife of Henry Kukfahl, of Pine River; Eda, who is the wife of William Rollenhagen, of Sunset, Marathon county ; Lena, who is the wife of Edward Zastrow, of Stettin ; Anna, who is the wife of Edward Newman, of Hamburg; Mary, who is the wife of Edward Brantd of Hamburg; Minna, who is the wife of Paul Riechel, of Wausau ; Clara, who is the wife of William Radloff; and Lydia, Ernest and Walter are at home.

his party and fellow citizens of the First District of Marathon county by election to the General Assembly, in which he served with credit in 1895-6, being a member of several important committees. He filled various township and district of^ces, was deputy sheriff during 1893- 1894, and was employed in the legislature in 1893. He has served also acceptably as president of the Marathon County Agricultural Society, is a member of the Berlin Insurance Company, and for the past forty years has belonged to Wausau Lodge Xo. 215, Odd Fellows.

EVAN M. MACAULAY, M. D.. who is engaged in medical practice at Wausau, Wisconsin, for the past ten years has devoted himself to his profession in Marathon county and through a considerable portion of it is well known. He was born February 4, 1873, at Balsover, County Ontario, Canada, and is a son of Rev. E. M. and Margaret (Monroe) Macaulay.

Rev. E. M. Macaulay was born in Inverness, Scotland. At the age of seventeen years, after having been a student at Edinburgh University, he accompanied his older brothers to the United States, they settling in Alabama and Florida. He entered Queens University, at Kingston, Canada, where he completed his medical studies, after which he turned to theology and from i860 until his death in 1907, at the age of eightysix years, he was a minister in the Presbyterian church. He married Margaret Monroe, who was born in Canada seventy years ago and survives, the beloved mother of seven children, namely: Evan M. ; John, who is a traveling salesman in Northwestern Canada; Angus, who is in business at Ottawa, Canada; Collin, who is a master mechanic for the Grand Trunk Railroad, in the shops at Ottawa ; George, who is a printer now residing at Ottawa, Illinois ; Thomas, who is connected with the Grand Trunk Railway ; and Jean, who resides with her mother.

Evan M. Macaulay received his early educational training in the Guelph Collegiate Institute, at Guelph, Canada, and after graduation became connected with the privy council department of the Canadian Government and continued until he entered Queens University of Physicians and Surgeons, at Kingston, where he was graduated in the class of 1899. Dr. Macaulay located immediately at Racine, Wisconsin, where he practiced until 1903, when he moved to Hatley, in Marathon county, and from there came to Wausau, in 1909, maintaining his office at No. 606 Third street. As a man of trained faculties and wide outlook, it is natural for Dr. Macaulay to be interested in public questions. He is independent in politics and the only public office he has held since coming to Marathon county was that of justice of the peace while residing at Hatley.

In 1899 Dr. Macaulay was married to Miss Edith Calvert, a daughter of Thomas Calvert, of Kingston, Canada. They have a daughter, Evaline Josephine, a beautiful child of two and one-half years. Dr. Macaulay belongs to the leading fraternal organizations including the Freemasons, the Modern AVoodmen of America, the Eagles and the Owls. He and wife attend the ISIethodist Episcopal church.

KIEFFER BROS., well known business men of Wausau, operating two meat markets here, one situated at No. 308 Jackson street, and the other at No. 1516 Sixth street. They have been in the meat business in this city since August i, 1898. The firm consists of Clement, Albert and John, Sr.

Clement, was born in 1870, in Alsace Lorraine, which was at that time a French Province. In the following year he was brought to the United States by his parents Jean Baptiste and Agatha Kieffer. The father was a tailor by trade and first located at Cincinnati, and later at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. There the other sons were born, and the children were all young when removal was made to Schofield, Marathon county, Wisconsin, in October, 1883, after twelve years at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The father died June 10, 1910. Clement, passed a busy youth and boyhood. After coming to Marathon county he worked in a mill and on a farm. In 1898 he with the other brothers, Albert and John Sr., went into the butchering business. They are all equal partners and are practical men in the business. They owned their own slaughter house which is situated south of the city, in the town of Weston. The brothers are all married, all have families and all belong to the Roman Catholic church. Clement married Miss Alvina Pickruhn and they have four children : Ida, Lawrence, George and Elmer. Albert married Miss Catherine Dreyer and they have two children: Raymond and Esther. John, Sr. married Miss Annie Tetzlafif and they have three children: Gertrude, Evelyn and John, Jr. As a firm the brothers stand high, while personally each one enjoys confidence and respect as a useful and reputable citizen.- intendent of their large plant and stands in the relation of a thoroughly trusted employe. He was born at Dennison, Iowa, August lo, 1877, and is a son of C. S. Curtis.

The parents of Mr. Curtis came to Wausau with their children in 1881 and here he attended both the common and high schools and afterward a military school at Knoxville. Illinois. He then returned to Wausau and entered the employ of Curtis & Yale and has had practical experience in every department including the ofifice. For thirteen years he was superintendent of the company's plant No. 2 and then came to plant No. I, in his present capacity.

Mr. Curtis married Miss Pauline Ringle, daughter of Valentine Ringle, and they have two children : Cornelius Valentine and Evelyn Pauline. Mr. Curtis has passed all the chairs in the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, of which he is the present chancellor, and he belongs also to the Elks and to the Wausau Club.

OTTO TRESS, one of the substantial and useful men of the town of Stettin, who owns 200 acres of fine land situated in sections 26 and 24, occupies that part of his fann lying in section 26, on the south side of the east and west road, si.x miles west of Wausau. Mr. Tress was born in Germany, June 16, 1868, and is a son of Ferdinand and Wilhelmina Tress, who came from Germany and have been residents of the town of Stettin for thirty-nine years.

Otto Tress was five years old when his parents brought him to the United States and to Wisconsin. He attended schools in the towns of Stettin and Wausau, after which he learned the carpenter trade, working afterward at the same in summers and for fourteen winters laboring in the woods. He then turned his attention to farming and of his large acreage has seventy acres cleared, six acres preserved in fine timber and all the rest in native woods. He has been successful as a breeder of grade Shire horses, and of Red Poll cattle. All the improvements on his place he put here and is one of the busy men of the town. For the last three years he has been town treasurer, is also road overseer of District No. 9. In politics he is a democrat and religiously belongs to the Lutheran church. He is a member of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

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business concerns of Wausau, Wis., is one of the -prominent and forceful men of this section, and has been identified with the timber and land business for twenty-three years. He was born in the city of Hamburg, Germany, May 21, i860, a son of Johann Ludwig Dominicus Scharbau and wife, the head of whose branch, Ludwig Christorer Dominicus Scharbau von Scharbautz, left Scharbautz in the year 1583.

Louis Scharbau was reared in a comfortable home by careful parents and was given good educational advantages, including attendance at a- high school and also a technical school in his native land. Having acquired a knowledge of civil engineering he followed that profession for awhile in his native land. In 1883 he came to America, settling at once in Wisconsin. After a short period spent at Milwaukee he came to the more northern part of the state and embarked in the saw mill business and in merchandising. He operated a mill and store in Gillette and another mill seven miles from Cecil, Wisconsin. He continued in business at Gillette until 1898, when he came to Wausau, since which time he has given his attention largely to the timber business, and his personal dealings in both farm and timber lands are extensive. He is a man of wide business experience and his operations are acknowledged factors in the commercial life of Northern Wisconsin.

In 1890 Mr. Scharbau was married to Miss Hulda Zell, and they have two sons, Harold and Kurt, who are students in St. John's Military Academy. Mr. Scharbau has twice visited Europe since he first crossed the Atlantic, and on the last trip, in the spring of 1912, he was accompanied by his wife. Together they visited the old home in Germany, also Paris, and extended their travels as far as St. Petersburg, Russia.

FRANK KURTH, who is one of the leading representatives of the hardware line, at Wausau, continues a business which he established in June, 1894, in association with his father, Gotlieb Kurth, under the firm name of G. Kurth & Son, the senior member of the firm retiring in 1908. Mr. Kurth was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 2, 1874, and is a son of Gotlieb and Lena Kurth, who still live in this city.

Frank Kurth attended the public schools at Wausau and his first experience in business was in a hardware store. Afterward, for several years, he was in the employ of the Montgomery Hardware Company, and then, as stated above, embarked in business for himself. He carries a complete stock of hardware and cutlery, and a business house that has prospered continuously for eighteen years may be justly named as a representative one. In 1902 Mr. Kurth was married to Miss Anna Zastrow, of this city, and they have one son, Waher. They are members of Zion Evangelical Lutheran church. Mr. Kurth is considered a sound, reliable business man and his opinions as a citizen carry weight.

PAUL HAHNHEISER, furrier, who has been in this business at Wausau since he came here in 1887, is a man of established business reliability and a highly respected citizen. Like many other of the substantial men of Wausau, he was born in Germany, in 1857, and learned his trade under his father, Leopold Hahnheiser, and an uncle, it being a family trade.

Mr. Hahnheiser has been identified with the fur trade since he was fifteen years of age and his knowledge of furs and their treatment, their fashioning into garments and their preservation, is complete. From Germany he went to London, England, and from there, two and onehalf years later, in 1885, came to America and two years afterward established himself at Wausau. He owns the brick building in which his store is located and his residence which adjoins it.

In the city of Philadelphia, Pa., ]\Ir. Hahnheiser was married to Miss Hattie Hunple, and they have five children : Paul, Lorton, ]\Iagdalena, Ruth and Hattie. The family belongs to the Catholic church and Mr. Hahnheiser is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters.

WILLIAM P. KENNEDY, whose place of business is one of much activity and is located on the corner of Jackson and Fifth streets, Wausau, where blacksmithing and horseshoeing is done and carriages and buggies are repaired, has been a resident of Wausau since 1882. He was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, April 16, 1862, and is a son of Peter Kennedy.

William P. Kennedy obtained his education in the schools near his home and then learned the blacksmith trade under his father. He was twenty years old when he came to Wausau and afterward worked for several winters in the woods, after which he opened his first blacksmith shop on Second street,' Wausau. He continued there until he found he needed larger quarters and in 1901 came to his present place. He has been industrious and painstaking and has always rendered good service for value received. Mr. Kennedy has many friends in this city and is a valued member of the order of Eagles. Mr. Kennedy is unmarried.

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GEORGE H. WILKE, who is engaged in the jewelry business at Wausau established himself March i, 1912, at his present location, No. 314 Scott street, and has been a resident of this city since 1901. He was born at Port Washington, Wisconsin, January 21, 1880, and is a son of William and Wilhelmina Wilke.

Geogre H. Wilke attended the public schools at Port Washington and spent two years in the high school, after which he started to learn the jewelry and optical business and spent eleven years with Otto Mueller at Wausau and then went into business for himself. He is a practical watchmaker and optician and carries a complete line of watches and optical goods and a fine stock of silverware and jewelry. He enjoys the confidence of the public and has satisfactory prospects. Mr. Wilke belongs to the Knights of Pythias and values his social membership with the Wausau Club. He is unmarried.

ERNEST E. SCHLEGEL, deceased, who, for twenty-seven years had been a resident of Athens, Wis., at the time of death, November 23, 191 1, was one of the very prominent men of Marathon county. He was vice president of the Bank of Athens and also of the Ceres Roller Mills Company, and financially interested in many other important business concerns. He was born in the town of Mequon, near Grafton, in Ozaukee county, Wis., February i, 1865, the oldest of se\'en children born to Charles Schlegel and wife, the others being: Oscar; Henry; Matilda, wife of Benjamin W. Pick; Charles; Cora, wife of Hugo Brunswick; and George.

Ernest Edward Schlegel spent his boyhood and youth in Ozaukee county and in 1884 accompanied his father to Athens, then known as Black Creek Falls. The father established the Ceres Roller Mills Company, placing the management in the hands of his son Ernest, who ever afterward had charge of the mill and acquired a controlling interest in the same. He was a capable business man and exercised his foresight and judgment not only for his own benefit but also for the general welfare of the community and many a struggling business concern, in its early days, was placed on a sound foundation by his timely aid and interest. In 1900 he assisted in organizing the Bank of Athens, was its vice president and on its directing board, and was a large stockholder in the Athens Printing Company, in both the Athens and the Marathon County Telephone Companies and in the Central Park Association. He was long connected officially with school and village government and performed every duty of life in a manly, straightforward manner that secured and preserved the confidence, respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.

At West Bend, Wis., Mr. Schlegel was married, April 29, 1890, to Miss Mary Boehm, who survives him. She was born in Germany and was four years old when her parents, Joseph and Mary (Alder) Boehm, brought her to Wisconsin. To Joseph Boehm and wife the following children were born: Joseph, who is deceased; Mary; Theresa, who is the wife of Joseph Rahberger; August; and Anna, who is deceased and was the wife of Clemens Wiler. To Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel eight children were born, namely: George; Ernst and Fred, twins; Florence; Jeanette; Helen; Marie and Mabel. The family belongs to the Evangelical church.

Mr. Schlegel's last illness was of a month's duration and as it was diagnosed as an abscess on the brain it was deemed advisable to take him to the Milwaukee Hospital where an operation was perfonned, from which, however, he did not rally. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge of Abbotsford and of the Masonic Chapter of Medford and belonged also to the Black Creek Aerie of Eagles.

HENRY OSSWALD, proprietor of the City Bakery at Wausau and an experienced and reliable business man of this city, was born at Wausau, November 22, 1873, ^"^ '^ a son of Christian Osswald, who was a pioneer in the baking business here and now lives retired.

Henry Osswald was educated in the public schools and from youth assisted his father in his grocery store and later learned the baking business with him. When his father retired from business Mr. Osswald succeeded. This is one of the best known and most largely patronized bakeries in the city and Mr. Osswald finds it necessary to keep six men employed and also three clerks to handle the trade. In addition to the usual bakery goods Mr. Osswald prepares many German dainties for which there is a large demand. Mr. Osswald married Miss Martha Brockmann, who was born in Germany and they have two children, Henry and Walter. Mr. Osswald is identified with several German organizations.

OTTO F. MUELLER, jeweler and optician, with convenient quarters on the corner of Third and AVashington streets, Wausau, has been engaged in business in this city for twelve years and has occupied his present building for eleven of these. He was born at Wausau, Wisconsin, December 19, 1875, ^"^ is a son of Gustav Mueller, a prominent citizen here for many years.

city and then began to learn the jewelry business in all its details, and also optical work, mainly pursuing his studies for eight years in Wausau, and then embarked in business for himself, his location during his first )'ear being on Third street two doors south of his present store. He carries a large stock of goods, including cut glass and expensive novelties and his display is very attractive. He has additional business interests, being president of the Badger Turpentine Company, of Wausau, and also president of the Wausau-Yakima Land Company.

Mr. Mueller married Miss Clara Thielke, of Maysville, Wisconsin, and they have three children: Anita, Margaret and Otto. As an earnest and intelligent citizen, Mr. Mueller is active in public affairs but has never been willing to accept any ofifice except supervisor in the Fourth ward, in which ofifice he served one term. He is identified with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the M. W. A., the E. F. U. and the Wausau Schuetzenverein, of which he is treasurer.

OSCAR H. BRIESE, who is one of Wausau's industrious, useful and well known business men, his carriage and wagon making plant being at No. 407 Sixth street, came here from Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he was born February 19. 1875. His parents are August and Bertha (Frick) Briese. They were born, reared and married in Germany, and the father learned the wagonmaking business before he came to the United States and located in Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he yet lives.

Oscar H. Briese learned his business wtih his father and worked with him for three years before coming to Wausau, having previously worked for three years in the railroad car shops at Creston, Iowa. In addition to manufacturing wagons and carriages he has a department for saw filing. His first location after establishing himself at Wausau was at No. 23 Washington street, in 1910 coming to his present place. His comfortable residence is at No. 702 Stark street, Wausau.

Mr. Briese was married in 1901 to Miss Minnie Esch, of Columbia countv, W'is., and they have one daughter. Alberta. He is a man of quiet tastes, devoted to home and family and is fdentified with but one fraternal organization, that being the Royal Arcanum.

JOSEPH WAGNER, whose horseshoeing shop is situated at No. 308 Second street, Wausau, is well known in this business, having devoted much of his business life to this line although giving some attention to his farming interests in the town of Marathon. He was born at Marathon City, Marathon county, Wisconsin, April 12, 1874, and is a son of Henry and Katherine Wagner, the latter of whom survives. The father, who was a carpenter by trade and for many years a resident of Marathon county, died in 1889.

Joseph Wagner attended school at Marathon City and then learned his trade and after working at the same there for three years, came to Wausau, in 1894, and from 1897 until 1907 conducted his own shop here. He then located on his farm of 130 acres, situated in the town of Marathon and after selling the same came back to Wausau and since February 15, 1912, has occupied his present stand. He is widely known and his shop is usually the scene of much activity.

Mr. Wagner married Miss Bertha Schulze, who was born in California, and is a sister of E. E. Schulze, of Wausau. They have four children : Helen, Ernest, Norma and Margaret.

CARL BLIESE, Jr., proprietor of a general store at No. 522 Scott street, Wausau, has been in the mercantile business since 1908. He was born on his father's farm in the town of Texas, Marathon county, Wisconsin, November 2"/, 1879, ^"d is a son of Carl and Amelia Bliese. His parents were both born in Germany and in their childhood accompanied their parents to the United States. They were reared in Wisconsin and married here and for many years the father carried on general farming in the town of Texas. He still owns his farm, having it under rental, and the family all live in a comfortable home situated on Lincoln avenue, Wausau.

Carl Bliese, Jr., was reared in the town of Texas and assisted on the home farm until he came to Wausau and embarked in his present business, purchasing from Conrad Bopf. He carries a large and well selected stock including dry goods, groceries and candies, and through pleasing manners, honest goods and square treatment, has built up a fine trade with prospects of its permanency. He has never been an active factor in politics but possesses the qualities which make that class known as the best and most efifective citizens of a community.

CHARLES T. EDGAR, a member of the Florida and Wisconsin bars, with office in the Record-Herald Building at Wausau, and also interested in the Wausau Investment Company, was born in the city of New York, August 9, 1887, and is a son of Charles and Gertrude

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Edgar. Charles Edgar was, for a number of years, one of the big lumber men of Marathon county, Wisconsin, but now lives retired at Evanston, Illinois.

Charles T. Edgar had both educational and social advantages and completed his education in law at the University of Virginia, receiving his degree in June, 1910, after which, for several years, he was connected with the Wausau Law and Land Association. Following this came a period of travel both in the United States and in Europe. In February, 1913, he opened his law office in Wausau, well equipped for professional problems. He is a member of the Wausau Club and the Wausau Country Club and the college Greek letter fraternity, Delta Tau Delta.

HERMAN RAMTHUN, who is a well known citizen of Marathon county, resides on his well improved farm of eighty acres, which lies in the town of Wausau, nine miles northeast of the city of Wausau. He was born in Pummen, Germany, in 1857, and is a son of ^^'illiam and Johanna (Hammond) Ramthun.

The parents of Herman Ramthun came to the United States in 1866 and settled first at Watertown, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, moving from there to the town of Easton in 1887. There the father died February 17, 1906, at seventy-three years of age. He was known as an industrious -man, good citizen and successful farmer. His widow survives and two sons : Herman and August, the latter being a resident of the town of Hewitt, and four daughters : Vine, Rose, Mary and Guste, respectively, who reside in Chicago, Nebraska, Chicago, and Montana.

Herman Ramthun grew up on his father's farm and attended the country schools, after which he learned the carpenter trade and more or less devoted himself to this work for the next twenty years. In the meanwhile, in 1880 he purchased his present farm and settled on the same in 1890, making all the improvements and putting up the excellent buildings. Successful cultivation of the land followed and Mr. Ramthun is numbered with the prosperous farmers of this section and is a member of the local board of supervisors of Marathon county of which he has been chairman for fifteen years. In politics he is a democrat and frequently has been elected to responsible offices, serving several years as assessor and for many years as school treasurer.

Mr. Ramthun was married first to Miss Ida Kuntz, a daughter of Carl Kuntz. Mrs. Ramthun became the mother of five children: Fred, who is a resident of the city of Wausau, married Martha Ott and they have one child ; Emma, who died at the age of fifteen years ; and Edward, WilHam and Matilda who reside at home. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Ramthun married again. Miss Millie Juedes becoming his wife, and to this second marriage the following children have been born : Ella, who is the wife of Paul Hahn ; and Annie, Paul, Walter, Harvey, Elbert, Clarence and Priscilla. Mr. Ramthun and family belong to the Lutheran church in the town of Easton.

LOUIS WIECHMAXX . who is one of the old hardware men of Wausau, Wisconsin, with which business he has been identified here for twenty-three consecutive years, occupies commodious quarters and owns his building at No. in Washington street. He was born at Algona, Wisconsin, February 9, 1871, and is a son of Adolph and Johanna Wiechmann. The father was a contractor and builder and in 1875 moved with his family to Lacrosse, Wisconsin, in 1881 came to Wausau, and in 1890 established the hardware business here under the firm style of A. Wiechmann & Son, which remained until the retirement of the elder partner in 1905, his death following on November 5, 191 1.

Louis Wiechmann was ten years old when his parents came to Wausau, where he attended school and afterward for some five years or more, was in the employ of the Montgomery Hardware Company. In 1890 he became his father's partner in business and has continued alone since his father's retirement, the firm, in 1900 having purchased the valuable business block now occupied. Mr. Wiechmann is well known over ^larathon County as a reliable dealer and honorable business man and his long experience has well fitted him to supply the hardware most in demand in this section and his patrons often come from far distant parts of the county as they have done for over twenty years.

In 1903 Mr. Wiechmann was married to Miss Emma Wegner, of Wausau, Wisconsin, and they have two children: Walter and Gertrude. He is a member of Zion church.

OTTO B. KAROSS, secretary of the Northwestern Dyeing & Cleaning Works and the Badger Steam Laundry at Wausau, and also treasurer of the same, has been a resident of Wausau for the past seventeen years and is favorably known to the majority of its citizens. He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 16, 1875, and was reared and educated there.

company to take charge of its affairs at Wausau, in 1893, and for twelve years he had charge of this branch. His present business enterprises were organized in 1908, at which time the company was incorporated and the present large cement building was erected here, with dimensions of 45x90 feet, at Nos. 127-129 Clinton street, the capital involved being $20,000, with the following officers : J. S. Alexander, president ; W. E. Hardloff, vice president; Otto B. Kaross, secretary, treasurer and manager; and George R. Lee, superintendent of the steam laundry. From thirty to thirty-five people are afforded employment and the business is exceedingly prosperous.

Mr. Kaross was married to Miss Paula Riebe, who is a daughter of Dr. Paul Riebe. As a citizen Mr. Kaross is interested in all that concerns the permanent welfare of Wausau but has never been very active in politics. He is identified with the Masons and the U. C. T.

GEORGE STUHLFAUTH, who, for thirty years has been a resident of Wausau, Wisconsin, is one of the city's best known citizens and owns farming lands in different parts of Marathon county. He was born July 13, 1854, in Germany, a son of George Stuhlfauth, who was a baker by trade and who taught the business to his son.

After coming to America, the younger George Stuhlfauth located in Illinois and conducted a bakery there for two years and then came to Wausau and operated a bakery here for two years. He then went into the horse business, in which he is yet interested; he deals also in vehicles and harness, handling a line of wagons, carts, sleighs and buggies and is prepared to supply almost any kind of conveyance.

Mr. Stuhlfauth was married in Germany, to Miss Maria Fackt, and then have five children : George, who is a resident of Chicago, Illinois ; and Marie, Jacob. Louise and John. The family belong to St. Paul's church. He has long been identified with the Masonic fraternity. During his many years of residence here, Mr. Stuhlfauth has seen the village develop into a city and other wonderful changes take place in Northern Wisconsin.

WALTER E. CL'RTIS, secretary and general manager of one of the very important business concerns of Marathon county, the Curtis & Yale Company, manufacturers of sash, doors, etc., is also vice president of the Fenwood Lumber Company of Wausau, and stands high in business circles in this section. He was born May 9, 1880, at Dennison,

Walter E. Curtis was an infant when his parents came to Wausau and here he was reared, attended the common and high schools and then spent two years at the University of Wisconsin. Upon his return to this city he entered the offices of Curtis & Yale and has worked his way through all departments, earning his way to his present responsibilities. Mr. Curtis has long been interested in and identified with Masonry, uniting with the local lodge when twenty-one years of age, is a thirty-second degree member and is serving in his second term as eminent commander of St. Omar Commandery, Knights Templar.

On June 12, 1906, Mr. Curtis was married to Miss Sadie Washburn, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and they have three children: Harriet, Emma and Catherine. He is identified with the Wausau Club, being one of its board of directors.

JARED ROLLIN GREEN, of the firm, of Green Bros., proprietors of the City Biis Line, has been in the general transfer and transportation line at Wausau since 1895 and owns the present business in partnership with his brother, George G. Green. He was born at Wausau, July 3, 1871, and is a son of George G. and Sarah J. Green. The parents were old settlers of Wausau and early in life the father was a lumberman. His death occurred in 1893 and that of his wife several years later.

Jared R. Green was reared and educated at Wausau and practically throughout his entire life has been in the transfer business. He owns and operates by himself, a valuable farm of forty acres which lies in the town of Texas. The Green Bros, own four omnibuses and three transfer and baggage trucks and keep nine head of horses. The firm has established a reputation for reliability and promptness that makes it a leading one in the city.

Mr. Green married Miss Minnie L. Hinz, of the town of Berlin, Marathon county and they have two children : George G. and Elmer R. Mr. Green and family still occupy the house in which he was born, a comfortable residence standing at No. 405 Second street. He is identified with the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias and belongs to the Royal Arcanum.

and also conducts a dray and ice business, is one of the representative business men of this section. He was born in Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, July 5, 1876, and is a son of Michael and Margaret (Klein) Hubing, who are natives of Wisconsin and now retired residents of Athens. They have seven children: John, Frank, George, Emil, Ernest, Clara and Catherine, the last named being the wife of George Beaver.

Frank A. Hubing secured a good, common school training and assisted his father on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old when he made a little venture in business for himself which resulted favorably, this being the purchase of a timber tract near Loyal, Wisconsin, which he cleared and then sold to advantage. After this Mr. Hubing came to Athens, where, for five years, he was foreman in a saw mill, retiring from that when he entered into the dray business and a few years later in the live stock business. He is still interested in timber to some extent in Marathon county, and is one of the stockholders in the Athens Telephone Company.

On November 28, 1905, Mr. Hubing was married to Miss Mary Degenhert, who was born in Monroe county, Wisconsin. Her parents, Henry and Catherine (Youngferdorf) Degenhert, were born in Germany and the mother still lives in Monroe county. The father, who was a farmer there for a number of years is now deceased. They had the following children: William; Martin; Anna, who is the wife of William Study; Frederick; Mary; Cecelia; Henry; Amelia, who is the wife of Frank Mushawk; Joseph and Catherine. Mr. and Mrs. Hubing have two children : Leona and Almyra. The family belongs to the Catholic church and Mr. Hubing is church treasurer. He has served the village in various public capacities, for six years being marshal and for the last two years has been constable and now is assessor. He belongs to the Eagles, to the Catholic Order of Foresters and to the Catholic Family Protective Association.

WILLIAM H. NABLO, who is one of the stable and representative business men of Wausau, Wisconsin, of which city he has been a resident for fifteen years, during ten of which he has been engaged in the merchant tailoring business, with quarters in the Record-Herald Building, was born in the Dominion of Canada, June 20, 1871, and is a son of Adam Nablo, who followed an agricultural life.

he learned tailoring and cutting and from there went to Jamestown, in the same state. At that place he worked as a cutter in one of the best establishments for three years. Later he was employed at Kalamazoo, Alichigan, and afterward had two years of tailoring experience at Chicago, Illinois, after which he came to Wausau and entered the employ of Jacob PafT as cutter. He continued with this well known tailor for five years when he purchased the business which he has successfully conducted until the present. His patrons are among the most critical and best dressed men of the city and county and his name alone is sufficient recommendation for the quality and fit of garments.

On November 29, 1905, Mr. Nablo was married to Miss Ida M. White, who was born in Augusta, Wisconsin. He is well known in fraternal circles and belongs to both the Elks and the Knights of Pythias, also to the Wausau Club and the Country Club.

MAX L. TISCH, who is in the contracting, heating and plumbing business at Wausau, W'isconsin, is a well known resident, his whole life having been passed here, where he was born December 13, 1882. He is a son of Carl and Augusta Tisch, both of whom are now deceased. The father was a well known man in Marathon county and for nine years was superintendent of the covinty farm.

Max L. Tisch was reared at Wausau and secured a public school education and then learned the plumbing business and worked as a plumber with dififerent firms until 1904. He then went into business for himself at Antigo, Wisconsin, and remained there until 1908, when he came to his present location and started business in his native city in 1909. He is well equipped for any work in the line of plumbing or hot water heating and his contracts are completed to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Tisch married Miss Marie Janusick, of Wausau, and they have two children: Dorothy and Maxwell. He is identified with the Odd Fellows, the Eagles and the Fraternal Reserve Association. He owns a fine auto-delivery car and all his other business equipments are entirely up to date. He is a good, reliable citizen but takes no very active part in political matters.

OTTO C. LEMKE, president and treasurer of the Underwood Veneer Company, manufacturers of veneers and panels at Wausau, Wis., has been identified with this important business enterprise for some eleven years, first as bookkeeper and afterward assuming his present responsibilities. Mr. Lemke was born on a farm in the town of BerHn, Marathon county, October I, 1870, and is a son of Fred and Ernestine (Giese) Lemke. They were bom in Germany and came to Marathon county in 1868. The father died on his fann in 1900, but the mother survives.

Otto .C. Lemke spent his boyhood on the home farm and attended the country school ; afterward took a commercial course in a business college, and attended state normal school, following which he taught school for a number of years. In 1895 he came to Wausau where he was engaged in clerical work for a time, and then bought a part interest in a country saw mill in the town of Hamburg, Marathon county, which he operated for a number of years, and when he retired to become bookkeeper for the Underwood Veneer Company returned to Wausau, but for some time afterward still was interested to some degree in his former business. As time went on his responsibilties in the Underwood Veneer Company increased and he became assistant secretary, treasurer and manager, subsequently becoming head of the business. The officers are: O. C. Lemke, president, treasurer and general manager; S. W. Underwood, vice president; A. W. Underwood, secretary. The products of the company are veneers and panels, birch, basswood, oak, ash, elm, maple and mahogany woods being utilized. Shipments are made to all the states and Canada and the North America and British Islands.

Mr. Lemke married Miss Bertha Nickel, of the town of Maine, Marathon county, and they have three children ; Helen, Alvera and Margaret. As a citizen Mr. Lemke is very active. He was one of the organizers of the Wausau Commercial Club and became its first president, but finding his private business making constant demands on his time and attention, resigned that ofifice although his interest in the organization continues. He is known as a man of business ability and equally so of business integrity.

ALBERT WENDORFF, a well known resident and highly regarded citizen of the town of Stettin, where he owns 120 acres of land situated in sections 16 and 15, residing on the latter, six and one-half miles northeast of Marathon City, was born in Germany, October 19, 1844. He is a son of Gottlieb and Louisa (Haasch) Wendorfif, both of whom were born in Germany. They came to America with their three children and in 1857 settled on the farm now owned by Albert Wendorfif. A forest then covered all this land and Gottlieb Wendorfif made the first clearing and erected the first building here. Both he and wife died here, his age being eighty-eight years and three months and that of his wife, eighty-four years, and their burial was in the cemetery of the Lutheran church, to which reHgious body they belonged. He was a very successful gardener in his own land and after getting established on this farm built a greenhouse and conducted a market garden.

Albert Wendorfif was twelve years old when he was brought to America and his home has been on his present farm ever since. He was the youngest born of his parents' four children and is the only one living. During his summers he devotes his attention to his farm industries, having eighty acres cleared and has made all the improvements here, oiificial duties of various kinds absorbing his time and attention in the winters which, in earlier years, he spent in logging camps. He has a small nursery and raises considerable fruit and also keeps bees profitably. He belongs to the progressive wing of the republican party and has frequently served acceptably in public offices. He was a member of the county board for two years, was assessor for nine years, then was census enumerator, for five years was assessor of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and for twelve years was fire and game warden. He was the first president of the Berlin Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company and assisted in making the bylaws and securing the charter. The present officials are: Albert Felhaber, president; Mr. Radlowf, secretary, and \Villiam Lemke, treasurer.

Mr. Wendorff married Miss Wilhelmine Grade, who was born in Germany, a daughter of August Grade, and they had the following children: H. A., who is clerk of the town of Stettin; Edward, who was census taker and also formerly town supervisor, married Otilie Lodholz ; Lizzie, who is the wife of Gustave Kopplin ; Emma, who is the wife of John R. Loy, and they live in Oregon ; Bertha, who is the wife of Gustave Boerner, of the town of Stettin ; Otto, who died at the age of eighteen years ; Albert, who died when a babe ; and an infant that also passed away. Mr. Wendorfif and family are members of the Lutheran church.

OTTO MUENCHOW, one of the representative business men of Wausau, Wisconsin, a general merchant, with quarters at Nos. 103-105 Grand avenue, has been a lifelong resident of this city, in which he was born, September 29. 1873. He is a son of Carl and Carolina (Erdman) Muenchow, both of whom came to America from Germany. They came to Wausau in 1873 and here the father died in 1888, but the mother survives.