Marathon County, Wisconsin - Chapter 35, 1913 (part 7 of 10)

Otto Muenchow obtained his education in the Lutheran parochial schools at Wausau but when thirteen years of age began to be self supporting, working in the sash and door factory where he continued for seventeen years. There he learned the trade of saw filing and worked in that capacity the following nine years. Mr. Muenchew was then appointed superintendent of the construction of the Stinchfield Creek canal, which is eight feet in diameter, built entirely of concrete. This is by far the largest canal construction in this part of the state. In 1906 Mr. Muenchow embarked in the mercantile business, erecting a fine two-story brick block on the corner of Grand and Forest streets, with dimensions of 36x68 feet. He has been a very useful and public spirited resident cf the First ward, which he served as a member of the city council for four years, retiring in 1905.

Mr. Muenchow married Miss Margaret Buechner, a daughter of John Buechner, formerly town treasurer of the town of Johnson, Marathon county, and one of the first settlers at Athens, Wisconsin. Mr. Muenchow was reared in the Lutheran church.

FRED G. WIECHMANN, proprietor of the Wiechmann Drug Stores, one of which is located at No. 310 Scott street, and the other at No. 1703 North Sixth street, Wausau, has an experience covering thirteen years in the drug business. He was born at Wausau, Wisconsin. July 12, 1884, and is a son of Adolph Wiechmann and wife, the former of whom died in this city in November 191 1.

Fred G. Wiechmann has spent the greater part of his life in his native city, attending the public schols until old enough to make a choice of career and then becoming a clerk and student in a local drug store. Later he took a course in pharmacy in the medical department of the Milwaukee College and after graduating devoted his entire time to his profession. In May, 1907, he established his store on Scott street, and in March, 1909, his second store to accomodate patrons on North Sixth street. Both stores carry a complete line of pure drugs, conforming to the law in every way, together with the additional goods usually found in modern drug stores. He is a manufacturing chemist, one specially being Dr. Monroe's Rheumaioi, a patent medicine for the alleviation of rheumatic afflictions, this branch of the business being carried on under the name of the Rheumol Remedy Company.

JOHN STARK, who is one of the substantial and reliable business men of Wausau, is engaged in the confectionery business as manufacturer and retailer, with attractive quarters at No. 604 Third street. He was born at Milwaukee, Wis., June 3, 1869, and is a son of Matthew and Anna Stark.

John Stark was reared in his native city and in boyhood had the excellent advantages ofifered by the fine public schools there. When it came time for him to learn a self supporting trade he chose that of candymaking, beginning at the bottom and learning every detail. He came to Wausau in November, 1901 and embarked in the confectionery and ice cream business and has prospered, manufacturing all the goods he handles and being thus assured of their cleanliness and wholesomeness. His heavy trade gives evidence that the public appreciates the care he thus exercises and admires his fine displays of choice confections.

Mr. Stark was married at Wausau to Miss Anna Jager of this city. He is identified with the fraternal organizations, the Elks and the Eagles. As a citizen he is law abiding and public spirited but takes no very active part in political campaigns.

GUSTAV TOBUREN, who, for the past seven years has conducted a photographic business at Wausau, his studio being situated at No. 408 Jackson street, which stand he has occupied since October, 191 1, was born at Greenwood, Clark county. Wis., February 19, 1887, and is a son of William and Minnie Toburen.. Gustav Toburen was educated in the Greenwood schools and afterward worked as a farmer until he came to Wausau and embarked in the line of business for which his natural bent best fitted him. He was associated with Carl Lemke, the well known photographer, from that time until he opened his own studio, which is well patronized, Mr. Toburen's artistic taste and mechanical skill being very generally recognized.

In May, 1908, Mr. Toburen was married to Miss Annie Manske, who was born in Germany but was reared at Wausau. She is a daughter of Herman and Lena Manske, the former of whom died in 1908, but the latter survives. Mr. and Mrs. Toburen have one son, Clarence, who was born March i, 1909. Mr. Toburen has his studio in his residence, having equipped the same with modern appointments of suitable nature for photographic work. He and wife are members of the German Reformed church, and he belongs to the fraternal organization known as the Yoemen.

FRED \V. AIANECKE, jeweler, with well appointed store at No. 312 Washington street, Wausau, is one of the city's prosperous and reliable business men. He was born in Westphalen, Germany, September 30, 1879, and is a son of Henry and Fredericka Manecke.

Henry Manecke and family came to America in the spring of 1882 and immediately located at Wausau, Wis., where he opened a jewelry store, a business he had previously followed in Europe. In 1901 he admitted his son, Fred W., to partnership, the firm name being Manecke & Son, which name was retained until August, 1912, when the son bought his mother's interest, the father having died June 2^, 1908. The mother yet lives.

In 1894 Fred W. Manecke started to work at the jewelry trade with his father and learned every detail including watchmaking. His education was secured in the public schools of Wausau and in this city he has always maintained his home. In 1900 he married Miss Bertha Schoenfeldt, also a native of Germany, and they have four children: Hildegarde, Dorothea, Roland and Henrietta. The family belongs to the German Reformed church, and from its organization until within two years of his death, the father of Mr^ Manecke was church treasurer, the latter then succeeding and serving six years in that office.

CHARLES WEJSBROD, a well known business man of Wausau, a member of the firm of Denfield & Weisbrod, painting contractors, with office at No. 307 Forest street, has been in the painting contracting line since 1891, at which time he formed his partnership with Henry Denfield. He was born in Germany, August 3, 1865, and is a son of Henry and Annie Weisbrod, who came to Marathon county. Wis., in 1883, and now resides on their farm in the town of Hamburg.

Charles Weisbrod was sixteen years old when his parents moved to Wausau, coming directly from Germany, and when they moved on a farm two years later he remained at Wausau, having started to learn his present business and being interested in the same. Mr. Weisbrod and partner* do a large business, giving employment to fifteen men during the busy season, and their trade is constantly on the increase as a result of honest work and promptness in completing contracts. Mr.

Weisbrod married Miss Rosa Hirsch. They are members of the Cathohc church. He belongs to the CathoHc Knights of Wisconsin and to the Germania.

HENRY GROSS, who fills a very important position in the civic government of Wausau, Wis., being superintendent of the city water works, has been a resident here since 1886. He was born July 4, i860, in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, and is a son of Nicholas and Christiana Gross.

Henry Gross was five years old when his parents brought him to America. They settled on a farm in Portage county, Wis., on which they lived for a number of years and then removed to Stevens Point, where their closing years of life were passed. Henry Gross remained on the home farm in Portage county until 1886. when he came to Wausau and for fifteen years afterward was manager here for the Pabst Brewing Company. In 1901 he was first appointed superintendent of the city water works and served until 1906, and in 1910 was reappointed to the office which he has since so satisfactorily filled. In 1889, at Ashland, Wis., Mr. Gross was married to Miss Mary \\'aters, a daughter of William and Mary Waters of that place.

EDWARD C. LANGENHAHN, who is vice president of the Ritter & Deutsch Furniture Company at Wausau, undertakers and dealers in furniture, has been identified with this business house for the last nine years and is one of the alert and reliable young business men of the city of his birth. He was born here January 18, 1883, and is a son of Theodore and Mary (Kline) Langenhahn. For a number of years the father was in the harness business at Marathon City, where he lives retired.

Edward C. Langenhahn was educated in the public schools and the Wausau Business College and later attended a school of embalming. When twenty years of age he went to work for his present company, of which he became vice president in 1910. The business is one of long standing and it enjoys public confidence. Mr. Langenhahn was married to Miss Helen Ruder, a member of an old Marathon county family, and they have one child, Marie. They are members of the Catholic church and he belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Woodmen of America and to St. Joseph's Society.

JOSEPH WILLEMS, junior member of the well known firm of Haesle & Willems, meat dealers, at No. 524 Forest street, VVausau, is one of the enterprising native born sons of this city, in which he has spent his life and secured a very creditable position as a business man and citizen. He was born March i, 1882, and is a son of John and Ag-nes (Berens) Willems, the latter of whom survives. The father died in 1902, a well known man in this county and for years a police officer and also street commissioner at Wausau.

Joseph Willems was reared at Wausau and was educated in the St. Mary's parochial school, and was a student in the city High School until his junior year, when he began to learn the meat business. He worked for the old firm of Gilham & Rich for about ten years and in 1905 associated himself with John Haesle, another employe, in the purchase of the business and since then the firm of Haesle & Willems has been a prosperous one here, handling the bulk of the trade in their section of the city. ]Mr. \\'illems is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church.

EDWARD G. WEINKAUF, president and treasurer of the Weinkauf Brps. Clothing and Furnishing Company, at Wausau, is one of the city's enterprising and substantial business men. He was born in 1868, in the town of Texas, Marathon county, Wis., six miles from Wausau, and is a son of Carl and Augusta Weinkauf. The parents of Mr. Weinkauf were born, reared and married in Germany and from there came to the United States and to Wisconsin in 1866, settling on a farm in the town of Texas, Marathon county. The father at first engaged in farming and then bought a saw mill. Both parents survive and reside at Edgar, in Marathon county.

Edward G. Weinkauf was reared on the home farm and worked for several years as a logger. He was twenty-five years old when he came to Wausau and entered the employ of his uncle, John Patzer, who conducted a saloon adjoining the Ritter & Deutsch Building. Later Mr. Weinkauf bought his uncle's interests and conducted the saloon until 1909 when he went into his present business, which is an incorporated concern, well managed and amply financed. Just prior to coming to Wausau, Mr. Weinkauf was married to Miss Minnie Volkman, and they have two children, Arnold and Anesta, both of whom attend the Wausau High School.

CHARLES F. PESCHMAXX, deceased, for many years was engaged in business at Wausau, as a merchant, and after he became an invalid was succeeded by his wife, who still continues the business, having greatly enlarged its scope and ably managing all its many details. Mr. Peschmann was born in Germany and died at Wausau, Wis., in 1908, having been under medical care at Oshkosh for seven years previously. In 1885 at Wausau. Mr. Peschmann was married to Miss Matilda Poch. Their seven children all died in infancy.

Mrs. Peschmann was born in Germany and accompanied her brother Carl Poch, to Wausau, the latter being now in business at San Francisco. Mr. Peschmann, whom she knew well in Germany, had come to \\'ausau one year before and after their marriage they continued to live in this city until Mr. Peschmann's affliction fell upon him. Mrs. Peschmann and husband started their store on North Sixth street, in 1893. and it has been mainly through her energy and wise judgment that the business has reached its present large proportions. She developed great business capacity when it became necessary for her to take entire charge and now owns the fine, well stocked store at No. 1910 Sixth street and five additional properties. She is well known and is held in very high esteem by her business associates and has a wide circle of personal friends. She is very charitable in many directions and liberallv contributes to help all worthy public movements.

JOSEPH KARL. who. for the past six years has been the caretaker of St. Joseph's school at Marathon City, owner of valuable property, and for the past nine years village assessor, is one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of the town of ^Marathon. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 28. 1835, and is a son of Sabastain and Catherine Karl.

The parents of Mr. Karl were also natives of Bavaria who came to the United States with their five daughters and one son, landing at the port of New York, July 16, 1852. They went to Pittsburgh, Pa., where the father found work for four years and from there came to Wisconsin, in 1858, he being then aged fifty-eight years. He had been a farmer in Germany and when he settled in ]\Iarathon village it was in the hope of again having his own land to cultivate and in this he was not entirely disappointed. He secured eighty acres of wild land and immediately began the labor of clearing, making his home in the village which was then only a little shanty settlement on the border of the deep woods. He was a man of judgment and sound principles but always felt too busy to accept any public office. His death occurred when he was aged seventy years and six months, his widow surviving to the age of eighty-four years and five months. They were good Catholics, members of St. Mary's church and their burial was in this church cemetery.

Joseph Karl's school period was passed in Germany. After he accompanied his parents to Pittsburgh, Pa., he worked at digging ore in the mines and afterward worked in a rolling mill at Pittsburgh. He was twenty-live years old when he came to Marathon City in i860 and imediately began to help his father in the really laborious work of clearing the farm, his father only succeeding in getting three acres cleared by himself. Joseph Karl cleared twenty-five acres and later bought eighty additional acres one-half mile south of Marathon City, in the town of Cassel, which he sold in 1898, moving then to the village. Here he owns a business block and his home.

Mr. Karl married Miss Tressa Blume, who was born in Prussia-Germany, a daughter of John Blume. Their children who were born in the town of Marathon were : Caroline, Theresia, Blandina and Romonda, and those born in the town of Cassel are Joseph and Mary, while eight children died in infancy. Mr. Karl and family belong to St. Mary's Catholic church. Mr. Karl has been a lifelong democrat. For fifteen years he was elected assessor of the town of Marathon and at first his district included also the towns of Frankfort, Wein and Cassel, and at that time he lived in section 26 in the town of Marathon.

CHARLES H. PETH. president of the Peth Candy Company manufacturers of candy at Wausau, Wis., is at the head of a large and growing business enterprise of this city and is a thoroughly experienced man in this line. Mr. Peth was born at Chicago, 111., August i, 1861, and is a son of Charles Frederick and Annie (Klotz) Peth. The parents were born, reared and married in Germany and the father was a carpenter by trade.

Charles H. Peth spent his earlier years in his native city and was educated in the public schools and afterward learned the trade of candymaking following which he went on the road as a candy salesman and came to Wausau, about 1901 from Peoria, 111., having been in the candy business all his active life. He established the Peth Candy Company in the same year and the company was incorporated in 1903 with Charles H. Peth as president and general manager; W. L. Covey as vice presi- dent and H. G. Flieth as treasurer. A large territory is served by this firm which has representatives all over Wisconsin and Lower Michigan, and employment is afforded from twenty-five to thirty-five people. A general line of fine candies are manufactured and they have a number of special brands.

Mr. Peth was married to Miss May Waidely, of Lincoln, 111., and they have one son, Adlai, who travels over the trade territory for the firm. In politics Mr. Peth votes independently and fraternally is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the W. C. T.

JACOB PAFF, manager of the Wausau branch of the F. C. Smith Piano Company, with ofifice and wareroom at No. 204 Third street, is one of the best known business men of this city. He was born at Wausau, Wis., July 3, 1865, and is a son of Jacob Pafif, who is affectionately remembered as "Honest Jake Pafif", this testimonial to his father's integrity being dearly cherished by his son. The elder Mr. Paff came to Wausau about 1849 ^"d became a man of substance here, carrying on a large mercantile enterprise for many years and later erecting the Pafif Block, a fine brick structure located at No. 202 Third -street.

Jacob Pair the younger, was reared at Wausau and attended the public schools and afterward worked for three years in a tin shop. After that he was in the employ of the Marathon County Bank and the First National Bank of Wausau, for seven years, when he became interested in the merchant tailoring business and conducted the finest and most exclusive tailor shop at Wausau, which he continued until 1903, when he disposed of that interest to advantage. For several years afterward Mr. Pafif was connected in a business way with a large fire insurance of^ce at Chicago, 111., and after returning to Wausau, in 1904. went into the musical line and acepted his present position. He handles the Bradbury pianos as a specialty and also the Webster, the Henning, the Smith & Barnes, the Willard and the Rogers Bros., pianos and also piano players. Wausau is a cultivated musical center and Mr. Pafif does a large business.

In 1896 Mr. Pafif was married to Miss Stella Dean of this city and they have one child, Marie. As a good citizen and native born resident, Mr. Pafif takes pride and interest in his city's development and ever is ready to do his full share in advancing movements that appeal to his good judgment.

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JOSEPH BRAUN, deceased, for many years was numbered with the leading business men and active and public spirited citizens of Athens, Wis. In naming many of the most important business enterprises of this section, his name is prominently mentioned, officially or otherwise, while his capital was invested in numerous ways that not only was advantageous to himself and family, but to the neighborhood in which various industries were successfully carried on. At the time of his death, April 15, 1907, he was superintendent and manager of the Braun Bros. Co.. and a heavy stockholder in the Bank of Athens, the Athens Brick and Tile Comjmny, the Marathon County Telephone Company, the Athens Printing Company and the Athens Park Association.

In May, 1886, Mr. Braun was married to Miss Cecelia Heinemann, who was bom at Milwaukee, Wis., a daughter of Joseph and Ann Bell (Kemper) Heinemann. Mr. and Mrs. Heinemann were born, reared and married in Germany, and after coming to Wisconsin lived at Milwaukee and Wausau, in which city the father now lives retired since the death of the mother. Mrs. Braun is one of the following family: Catherine, now deceased, who was the wife of Heman Aiken; Margaret, who is now deceased, was the wife of William Caward; Henry: Joseph: Hannah, who married first Herman Dehn and second, August Meyer; Anna, who is the wife of William Waterhaus; William: Cecelia; and Philip. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Braun : Henry, Bella. Esther and Anthony. Mr. Braun and family were members of the Catholic church and he belonged to the Catholic Order of Foresters and also to the E. F. U. For a long time Mr. Braun was a notary public at Athens. In his death Marathon county lost a citizen of sterling character and public usefulness.

VICTOR KLECKER, a member of the firm of Pfeifer & Klecker, dealers in meats and manufacturers of home made meat products, at Wausau, with retail store at No. 412 Scott street and slaughter house at the end of Grand avenue, has been in the meat business here for twenty years. He was born in Austria. August 23, 1865, and came to America and to Wisconsin when aged sixteen years, and almost directly to Wausau.

Mr. Klecker learned the butcher businses in all its details and afterward, for ten years, worked in butcher shops and then went into business for himself, almost immediately forming a partnership with Charles Pfeifer which has continued since. The firm owns the building at No. 412 Scott street and also the brick building on the same street now oc- cupied by Carl Merklein in the same business. This firm has a reputation for business integrity that places it among the representative ones of the city.

ANTHONY VETTER, general farmer, whose well improved tract of 260 acres is situated on sections 21 and 29 town of Marathon, three and one-half miles south of Marathon City, was born one and one-half miles west of his present farm, in Marathon county. Wis., April 17, 1862, a son of George and Julia Ann (Kiefer) Vetter.

George Vetter was born in Alsace, now in Germany, and was seventeen years old when he came to America and went to work in the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., where he married Julia Ann Kiefer. While they lived at Pittsburgh three children were born: George, Joseph and John, George dying before the family moved to Marathon county, where the following children were born: Victoria, Jacob, Frank, Anthony. Hemian, Elizabeth, Any, Mary and Lena. Although George Vetter had only seventy-five cents as his capital when he reached Marathon county he was not discouraged for his previous life had been one of toil and more or less hardship and he and family knew that pioneering in an unsettled region would necessarily bring about occasions for much self denial. He entered eighty acres of government land and lived to improve it and also owned one lot in Marathon City. He had considerable business enterprise and he built the Vetter Cellars at Wausau, the first brewery there. He and wife were faithful members of the Catholic church.

Anthou}' Vetter attended the public schools and afterward a business college at Wausau and prepared for the profession of teaching by attending the State Normal School at Oshkosh for five terms. For eleven years he then taught school in the towns of Marathon, Cassel and Emmett, after which he settled on his present farm, forty-five acres of which he cleared himself. He also buys and sells cattle in the town of Marathon and is a stockholder in the Central Creamery here. He belongs to the Marathon City Brewery Company of which he was secretary for two years. Since his first marriage he has resided on his present farm, first on the east end and later moving to the south side on the east and west road and here put up all the substantial buildings.

Mr. Vetter was married first to Miss Augusta Muhlbauer, who was a daughter of Joseph Muhlbauer, of Marathon county. She was a devoted member of the Catholic church and her burial at death was in St. Mary's cemetery. She was the mother of four children: Walter, Anthony and Ella and Laura, twins. Mr. Vetter's second marriage was to Miss Anna Roller, who was born at Minneapolic, Minn., a daughter of John Roller, a retired farmer of Marathon City. To the second marriage were born : Mary, who attends St. Mary's parochial school ; Anna, who attends the public schools ; Arnold and Sylvester, who are with their parents: and Mary, Anna and Arnold, all three of whom died in infancy. Mr. Vetter and family all belong to St. Mary's Catholic church. He has been a lifelong democrat and has frequently been called to serve in public office. For four years he was a member of the town board of Marathon and all that time its chairman, four years was a justice of the peace, two years was town treasurer and for six years was clerk of the school board.

JOHN F. MATHIE, secretary and manager of the Mathie Brewing Company, of Wausau, Wis., which is one of the old and solid business enterprises of this city, was born here in the year it was founded, July 5, 1869, and is a son of Frank and Catherine Mathie, both now deceased.

John F. Mathie was reared and educated in his native city and from boyhood has been more or less identified with his present business, early learning the necessary details and later applying his knowledge in the way best calculated to bring the plant to its present recognized commercial standing.

The Mathie Brewing Company was organized in 1869 by Frank Mathie. Since its incorporation John F. Mathie has been secretary and manager, the other officers being: Otto Mathie, president; John Ringle, vice president; and E. C. Zimmerman, treasurer. Mr. Mathie has additional business interests and is secretary and treasurer of the Mathie Land Company, of Wausau, of which Frank Mathie is president and Otto Mathie is vice president. John F. Mathie married Miss Mary Lehan, of Green Bay, Wis., and they have two children: Catherine and John.

ANTON L. KRYSHAK, proprietor of the Wausau Cigar & Tobacco Company, manufacturers of fine cigars, is established at No. 310 Third street, Wausau, Wis., in the Kryshak Building, a handsome, threestory brick structure which is a positive testimonial to his industry and business, ability, for he is a strictly self-made man. He was born in Germany, in i860, and was only eleven years of age when he came to the United States and immediately to Wausau. He attended school here but as soon as the law permitted became a cigar maker and thoroughly learned the trade. In 1891 he started into the business for himself, making his cigars in his own home, and finding a ready market. Through honest business methods and untiring industry he was able to meet competition and prosper. About nine years after entering into the business he was able to erect the substantial building which bears his name and in which he carries on his factory, giving steady employment to twenty-five skilled cigarmakers. He has never been active in political matters, being more interested in promoting his business, but he belongs to several fraternal bodies, including the Elks, the Eagles, the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, and the United Commercial Travelers.

FRANK F. CHESAK, who is extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber and a member of the board of directors of the Athens Manufacturing Company, directs a large Real Estate, Loan and Insurance business at Athens and for years has been one of the dominating men of Marathon county. He was born on a farm in the town of Trenton, Washington county. Wis., January 30, 1867, ten years after his parents, Martin and Mary (Sigmond) Chesak, had come to America from Austria. The father was a brickmaker by trade, but three years after locating in Washington county. Wis., he engaged in farming, continued until 1884 and then moved to Marathon county, where, until the close of his life he was interested in merchandising and lumber.

After completing the common school course, Frank F. Chesak, in 1885, went to Poniatowski. Several years later he became a student at Pierce Business College, at Keokuk, la., where he was graduated. He then returned and went into his father's store at Poniatowski and became also interested with his father and two brothers in lumbering. In 1889 he was appointed postmaster there and served until 1894, and in 1895 was appointed general clerk of the State Land Office at Madison and served until July, 1902. In 1909 by the Marathon County Board of

Supervisors he was elected treasurer of the Marathon County Agricultural School Board, in 1903 having represented the village of Athens on the County Board. For many years he held the office of justice of the peace, was twice elected president of the Athens Advancement Association; is police justice for the village of Athens; was chairman of the Republican County Committee of Marathon County, 1908-1910, and was the republican candidate for State senator, from the 25th Senatorial District, composed of Clark and Marathon counties. Mr. Chesak is well qualified for the many responsible positions which he has been called upon to accept. He is a master of four languages: English, German, Bohemian and Polish.

Mr. Chesak was married September 13, 1894, to .Anna Blaszka, who was born in Wisconsin, a daughter of Joseph and Josephine (Gates) Blaszka. The parents came from Poland to the United States and the father is a merchant in Chicago. Mr. Chesak is interested in the Athens Printing Company, being on the board of directors, is a stockholder in the Athens Bank, in the Geo. Ruder Brewing Company, in the Badger Ginseng Company of Wausau, and the Athens Telephone Company, and is a member of the board of directors and vice president of the Marathon County Telephone Company.

BR.AYTON E. SMITH, a leading member of the bar at Wausau, a member of the law firm of Smith & Leicht, with offices at No. 512 Third street, is also favorably known in republican political circles and may justly be numbered with the representative men of Marathon county. He was born on a farm in Keokuk county, la., April 25, 1874, and is a son of Israel W. and Emma I. (Hoyt) Smith. His parents were residents of Iowa until the spring of 1880, when the family moved to Rock county, Wis., where the father engaged in farming.

Brayton E. Smith remained at home and assisted on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age, in the meanwhile, however, securing . a broadening education, first in the country schools and later in Beloit Academy, graduating from the latter with the class of 1896. In 1897 the family left the farm, moving to Beloit, where he entered college, and continued his studies for two years. In December, 1899 he was appointed to the position of clerk in the U. S. railway mail service. He spent six years in the railway mail service and during the last three years of that period made his home at St. Paul, Minn., devoting all his spare time apart from his official duties to special studies in the law department of the

University of Minnesota. In May, 1906, he was admitted to the Wisconsin bar and has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Wausau ever since. On July i, 1909, when the office of Divorce-counsel was established by act of the legislature, Mr. Smith was appointed divorce counsel of Marathon county, and each year was reappointed and served in the office until October, 1912, when he resigned. From early manhood he has been jnore or less active in politics and in the spring election of 1912 was a candidate for municipal judge but was defeated by Hon. Louis Marchetti, the present incumbent.

On June 16, 1904, Brayton E. Smith was married to Miss Mary K. Babcock, of Clinton, Rock county, Wis., and they have one son, Orvis B. Mr. Smith is identified with the Knights of Pythias and belongs also to the Fraternal Reserve Association.

CHARLES H. WEGXER, general merchant, who has been a resident of Wausau, Wis., for twenty-nine years and established here in his own business for almost a quarter of a century, is one of the city's reliable, substantial and truly representative men. He was born in Germany, January 28, 1863. and the first twenty years of his life were spent in his native land and his education was secured in the German schools.

Charles H. Wegner decided very early in life to become a merchant and in early manhood decided that the United States could ofifer better opportunities than were to be found in his native neighborhood, and after landing at the port of New York, came immediately to Wausau, Wis., where alreadv many of his countrymen had settled. He very soon secured employment as a clerk in stores and served in that capacity, in the meanwhile learning the English language and the important details of merchandising, until 1888 when he embarked in business for himself, opening up in what was known as the old Kickbush Block, on the corner of First and Scott streets and has occupied this site ever since, now owning his fine brick structure which includes Nos. 502-504 First street. He carries one of the largest as well as most carefully selected stocks in the city, covering many commodities : dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, china and crockery, together with flour and feed. His present enormous business has been built up on a foundation of honesty and he has customers who have dealt with him from the beginning. His place is the trading headquarters for a very large percentage of the farmers, campers and loggers in the surrounding coun- try, his long experience enabling him to provide just the goods these patrons want, while his honorable business methods are well known to them and their confidence in his integrity is unquestioned.

On April 23, 1889, Mr. Wegner was married to Miss Emma Kickbush, a daughter of the late Hon. F. W. Kickbush, who was once consul from the United States to Germany.

JOHN M. KUEBLER, president of the J. M. Kuebler Co., manufacturers of sash, doors, etc., at Wausau, has been a resident of this city for more than thirty years and is well and favorably known in substantial business circles. He was born at Batavia, Genesee county, N. Y., June 30, 1864, and is a son of M. F. and Catherine Kuebler.

The parents of Mr. Kuebler moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., in his childhood and he attended the public schools there and learned his trade in one of that city's manufacturing plants. When he came to Wausau he entered the employ of Curtis Bros., now the Curtis-Yale Company, with which he continued for thirty years and for twenty-six of these was superintendent of their great plant. In March, 19 12, the J. M. Kuebler Company was organized, Mr. Kuebler becoming president, and general manager, taking over the old plant of the Werheim Company. They then entered upon the manufacture of sash, doors, etc., on a large scale and the business has prospered from the beginning.

Mr. Kuebler married Miss Margaret Single, a member of one of the old pioneer families of Wausau, and they have one son, Benjamin G. While Mr. Kuebler has never been very active in politics, he has taken much interest in Masonry and is a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.

GEORGE H. HALDER, who is now serving in his fourth year as deputy state oil inspector, has charge, as janitor, of the Court House at Wausau. He comands the respect and enjoys the confidence of his fellow citizens, with whom he has been officially associated for many years. He was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 11, 1866.

Mr. Haider came to Wisconsin in boyhood and attended school in Manitowoc county until 1881. when he came to Wausau. He learned the baker's trade but never followed it, other and more congenial lines occupying his attention and for twelve years he was in partnership with his brother in the plumbing business at Wausau. He has always been a zealous republican and has served both as supervisor and as alderman from the First Ward. Prior to accepting the position of oil inspector he served two years as under sheriff of Marathon county, under sheriff Damon. He has had charge of the Court House for some time, being now in his third year as janitor and during this period has made many personal friends among the of^ce holders and visitors to the building, his efficiency and courtesy being often a subject of favorable remark. Mr. Haider married Miss Aurora E. Ringle, a daughter of Valentine Ringle, and they have two children : Leona C. and Aurora C. Mr. Haider belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the E. F. U.

JOHN P. YOUNG, confectioner, who is one of the representative business men of Wausau, was born August ii, i860, at Berlin, in Green Lake county, Wis., a son of John Young who was a farmer there.

John P. Young was reared on the home farm and was seventeen years of age when he came first to Wausau where he remained for several years and, in fact, has lived here ever since with the exception of seven years. After learning the confectionery business in all its branches, including the manufacture of such dainties as ice cream and sherbets, he began business for himself, December 10. 1891, as a dealer and in the following year began manufacturing. His first location was on Washington street, then he was in the Lawrence Building for nine and one-half years and has occupied his present quarters for the past two years. His business is an extensive one and he largely manufacturers for the cit)' trade.

Mr. Y'oung was married at Wausau on April 5, 1884, to ]\Iiss Sophia E. Peterson, who was born at Watertown, Wis., but was reared in Marathon county. They have two children : Roscoe B., who married Charlotte Stowe ; and Margaret Ann. Mr. Young takes all the interest in local matters that good citizenship demands. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum.

F. BERNARD KOSCHAL\NN, general merchant at Wausau, Wis., his fine two-story brick building being located at Nos. 1419-1421 Third street, has been here as a resident since 1877. He was born in Germany, January 11, 1845, ^"<^1 '* ^ ^o" o^ Charles and Christiana Koschmann whose lives were passed in Germany.

F. Bernard Koschmann was reared and attended scIkjoI in his native land, learned the carpenter trade there and worked at the same until 1872, when he came to the United States. He found plenty of employ- ment at Chicago, 111., where he remained for five years and then came to Wausau and worked for three years in the Plumer mill. He then entered the employ of the Curtis Bros. Co., now the great Curtis & Yale Company, and for six years was foreman in their yard. In 1888 he established a retail business in the Blumenkamp Building at 1406 Third street. The following year he built a store at the corner of De Kalb and Third streets, which was partially destroyed by fire in 1900; he at once rebuilt and enlarged the building which he has occupied ever since. At Chicago, 111., Mr. Koschmann was married to Miss Augusta Langhuth, who died in 1881. They had had three children: Emma, who died in childhood ; Gustav, who lives at Spokane, Wash. ; and Hattie, who died in childhood. Mr. Koschmann then married Johanna Ladwig, who died three years later, leaving two children : Otto, and Johannes, who is with his father. Mr. Koschmann subsequently married Miss Emma Mathwich and they have nine children : Bennie, Anna, who died in childhood, Ella, Walter, Edward, Arthur, Martin, Hannah and Herbert. Another member of the family is an adopted daughter, Mary Ladwig. Mr. Koschmann is a member of the Lutheran church and one of its board of trustees. He has been a useful and reliable citizen ever since he came to make this his home. His sterling qualities have been recognized and twice he has been elected a member of the city council, retiring from office in 1910, with a clear record for honesty and efficiency.

JACOB VETTER, who is the oldest born resident now living in the town of Marathon, owns 226 acres of fine land lying in section 30, three miles south of Marathon City. He was born in the town of Marathon, Marathon county. Wis., August 24, 1858, and is a son of George and Julia (Keifer) Vetter.

George Vetter was born in Germany, a son of Louis Vetter, who died when the child was nine years old. He attended school and then learned the mason trade and when eighteen years of age came to the United States by himself and found his first home at Pittsburgh, Pa. There he worked at his trade and there warried Julia Keifer, who was also born in Germany and had come to America when aged eight years. While Mr. and Mrs. Vetter continued to live at Pittsburgh, three children were born, Joseph, George and John, one of whom died there. When George Vetter and family came to Marathon county he secured ninety-two acres of the present farm of his son Jacob. It was heavily wooded but, with the help of his sons it was all cleared and put under cultivation and later on he acquired 280 acres more. At first a log cabin sufficed for the family shelter, with only an earthen floor, and fireplace built in a stone wall, that served for heating and cooking. All the furniture was constructed of rough boards and poles brought in from the forest, but, in spite of its many deficiencies, here were born and comfortably reared a happy family of chidlren and the survivors recall their parents with feelings of reverence and afifection. The children "born after the family came to Marathon county were: Jacob, Frank, Anthony, Herman, Elizabeth, Ann and Mary. George Vetter built the first brewery in Wausau and the place was long known as the Vetter Cellars. His wife died at the age of fifty-four years but he lived to be seventy-nine years old, dying on the present farm, April 15, 1902. They were members of St. Mary's Catholic church. He was a strong democrat and was widely known, spending a part of his time at Wausau in his brewery and a part on his farm, and was well thought of by everyone.

Jacob Vetter had district school advantages and afterward worked on the homestead. He is interested largely at the present time in stockraising and is a stockholder in the Range Line Dairy Company, which plant is on his farm. Mr. Vetter married Miss Augusta Lemmer, who was born on an adjoining farm, a daughter of the late John Lemmer, and they have the following children : Priscilla, Isabel, Hugo, Rodeby, Elizabeth, Bruno, Mary, Mark, Mattie, Jacob and Alexander. The family belongs to the Catholic church and Mr. Vetter is a member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. Politically he is a democrat and has served as assessor and at present is serving in his second term as treasurer of the school board.

WILLL\M SCHUBRING, deceased, for many years was a well known farmer in the town of Wausau and one of its most respected citizens. He was born in Germany but from boyhood desired to try his fortune in America and his opportunity came when he was nineteen years of age and he landed in the United States. He had prepared to come directly to Marathon county, Wis., and when he reached here he located on the farm on which one of his sons now lives. He followed farming and lumbering on the river and during his entire active life was a man of industry and thrift. He did not, however, live into old age, his death occurring on July 10, 1904, when aged fifty-five years. At that time he owned 120 acres of improved land, which he had assisted to clear, and

William Schubring married Miss Barbara Deck, daughter of Christian Deck who was born in Germany and brought his family to America. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schubring, namely : Fred, who married Louise Borchert, of Columbus, Wis., and they have two children: Lydia and Elmer; Henry, who married Lily Harding, and they have two children: Gertrude and Eleanor; August, who married Talitha Lange and they have two children: Orville and Evelyn; Clara, who married William Trittin and they have two children : Lawrence and Henry ; Adolph. who lives at home ; Mathilda, who is the wife of Gustave Prey, and they have a daughter named Ruth; and Helen and George, both living at home. Mr. Schubring never took a very active part in politics but usually, voted with the republican party. He was a member of the Lutheran church and gave it support according to his means.

MORRIS LIPSKI, who is engaged in the manufacture of awnings, tents, shades and mattresses and does general upholstering, located at No. 6 Washington street, W'ausau, came to this city in 1900 and went into business first as a general repair man. He now has a business that extends into a half dozen counties and he gives constant employment to about five men.

Mr. Lipski was born March 2^, 1875, in London, England, and was five years old when his parents brought him to the United States. For the first nine years the family remained in the city of New York, after which he went to Chicago, 111., and from there to Wausau. where he not only has built up a first class business but has made many personal friends. He was married in this city to Miss Lena Boudreau, and they have one son, James. He is identified fraternally with the Odd Fellows and the Elks and belongs also to the United Commercial Travelers' Association.

CLIVE S. CONE, proprietor and manager of the Grand Opera House at Wausau, Wis., also manager and director of Cone"s 4th Regiment Band and Orchestra, is one of the best known residents of this city which has been his home for eighteen years. He was born July 23, 1873, at Waterloo, Jefiferson county. Wis., and is a son of George H. Cone.

loo and was only a boy when his musical talent was recognized and he became a member of the local band. Later he traveled as a musician and actor with theatrical troupes all over the United States, coming to make his home in this city, in 1898, and has had much to do with the public amusement business here. As proprietor and manager of the Grand Opera House here and as a member of the Northwestern Theatrical Association and Theatre Owners Association, of U. S. and Canada as well as manager and leader of the military band of twenty-five pieces, all experienced musicians. Mr. Cone's name is a familiar one from coast to coast. The Grand Opera House was erected in 1900 and is one of the finest houses of its kind in Wisconsin, having a seating capacity of over 1,200. Here Mr. Cone gives the people of Wausau and nearby towns and environs fine amusements, including first class attractions of every kind and aspecial vaudeville and moving picture entertainment is given on Saturdays and Sundays. Although his musical and theatrical interests are large, Mr. Cone has additional ones, being local agent for the Studebaker automobiles and owner of the Wausau City Bill Posting Company.

Mr. Cone married Miss Laura Anna Peters, who was born at Wausau, a daughter of Hugo Peters, a well known resident. During the Spanish-American War, Mr. Cone was in service as bandmaster and chief musician of the 4th Regiment Military Band, during the larger part of the time being stationed at Anniston, Ala.

MARVIN BRISTOL ROSENBERRY, attorney at law at Wausau and a member of the prominent law fimi of Kreutzer, Bird, Rosenberry & Okoneski, has been a resident of this city for the past twenty years. He was bom in Medina county, O., February 12, 1868, and is a son of Samuel C. and Mary (Hitchcock) Rosenberry, and a grandson of Samuel Rosenberry. who moved from Montgomery county. Pa., to Medina county, O., about 1840.

Samuel C. Rosenberry, who still resides with his wife on his farm in Kalamazoo county, Mich., to which he came in 1868, from Medina county, O., is one of the highly respected retired residents of that section. In 1862 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Co. I, 103rd O. Vol. Inf., and remained until the close of hostilities, receiving his honorable discharge in 1865. He is a carpenter by trade and for many years of active life followed farm pursuits. On September 20, 1866, he was married in Ohio to Mary Hitchcock and a family of four sons and four daughters was bom to them, namely: Marvin B.; Alice, who is the wife of Herman Stofflet, a fanner in Montana; Bertha, who is the wife of Jason Harrison, residing in Kalamazoo county, Mich. ; Erva, who is the wife of Fred Hitchcock, a fanner in Cass county, Mich.; Ada, who is the wife of John Stofflet, a dentist in business at Bishop, Calif.; Walter Samuel, who is manager of the Rose Lake Lumber Company, at Rose Lake, Idaho; David Dudley, who is superintendent of the Elk River Lumber Company, of Elk River, Idaho; and Harry Lloyd, who died August 25, 1900.

Marvin B. Rosenberry was six months old -when his parents came to Michigan. He attended the public schools and the State Normal School and then entered the L'niversity of Michigan and was graduated at Ann Arbor in the law class of 1893. In August, of that year, he opened his law office at Wausau, having prepared for college in the law office of Silverthorne, Hurley, Ryan & Jones, of this city. Mr. Rosenberry practiced alone for about eighteen months. On January i. 1895, he became associated with partners and the firm of Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberry continued until January I, 1901, when it was dissolved, following which the firm of Kreutzer, Bird & Rosenberry was organized, this continuing until Mr. Okoneski was admitted to partnership on September i, 1908. Although his practice has absorbed the greater part of his time, Mr. Rosenberry has given some attention to outside interests and was one of the organizers, in 1905. of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Company, of which he is vice president and is also president of the Edgar Land Company and of other concerns. Although business and professional life have laid heavy burdens on him, Mr. Rosenberry has never been disposed to forget the duties of good citizenship and in what he believes to be a worthy cause is an enthusiastic worker. A stanch Republican he served as chainnan of the county Republican committee from 1898 until 1904 and was very active in the campaign in the latter year.

On September 2. 1897, Mr. Rosenberry was married to Miss Catherine Landfair, daughter of Capt. John A. and Florence (Winslow) Landfair, and they have two children : Catherine and Samuel Landfair, a daughter, Florence, being deceased. The family belong to St. John's Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Rosenberry is junior warden. He is a Knight Templar Mason and an Elk and belongs to the leading organizations of his profession in the country and to the University Club at Madison and the Wausau City and the Wausau Country Clubs.

ANTON SAUTER, justice of the peace in the town of Stettin, is a leading citizen and extensive farmer in this part of Marathon county, owning 200 acres of excellent land situated in sections 8 and 17. making his home in the former section, seven miles northeast of Marathon City. He belongs to one of the solid old German families established here more than fifty years ago and was born April 2, i860, in Marathon county. Wis., on a farm one-half mile south and one-half mile east of his present home farm. He is a son of Ottmar and Theresa (Loy) Sauter.

Ottmar Sauter was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1829, and came to America in 1857 and shortly afterward reached Wisconsin, working on a farm at Watertown before coming to the town of Stettin, Marathon county. He married Theresa Loy, who was born in Austria, a daughter of Anton Loy, and the following children were born to them : Anton, Frank, John, Rosa, Mary, Elizabeth, Francis, Annie, Clara and Ottmar. Clara died in 1881, her burial being at Marathon City. The father, with the help of his sons, cleared up a large farm and was able to assist his children in getting established in life, giving a farm to both the oldest and the youngest sons. When ready to retire from active farm work he moved to Marathon City and lived there into his seventy-fifth year. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church, as was also his wife, who died when aged sixty-one years, and their burial was in the church cemetery. He was a stockholder in the Mathie Brewing Company.

Anton Sauter attended the public schools in boyhood, and afterward, following his father's example, kept busy, working in the nearby mills and on the farm, up to the time of marriage, and then took charge of his present farm which his father gave him as a reward for years of faithful service. Here Mr. Sauter has made all the improvements and has cleared fifty acres of his land b}' himself. It is well adapted to crop production and also to the growing of cattle and Mr. Sauter devotes considerable attention to raising fine Guernsey and Holstein cattle, his herds making an excellent showing in comparison with others in this section. His two brothers, Frank and John, are prospering in South Dakota. The former, a cigarmaker by trade, took up a homestead in South Dakota in 1885 and still later a tree claim there. John Sauter is a carpenter by trade and continues to work at the same, renting out the farm he acquired in South Dakota. The Sauters are all substantial men and reliable citizens of their communities. Anton Sauter has been clerk of School District No. 5, town of Stettin, since 1893 ^"d for the past ten years has been a justice of the peace.

residents of the town of Cassel. To Mr. and Mrs. Sauter the following children have been born: Joseph, born August 24, 1889, died May 24, 1890; Mary, born October 16, 1890; Regina, born January 7, 1892; Edward, born May 16, 1893, died August 17, 1893; Annie, born June 2, 1894, died August 25, 1894; Frances, born July 28, 1895; Frank, born August 3, 1897, died November 17, 1898; Adalina, born April 22, 1899; Emma, born November 11, 1900; Olive, born July 24, 1902; Laura, born May 9, 1904; Anton, born July 3, 1905; Flora, born July 23, 1966; and Cecelia, born May 6, 1910. The family belongs to St. Mary's Catholic church. In politics Mr. Sauter is a democrat. He is a stockholder in the City Bank at Wausau and is a member of the Stettin Mutual Insurance Company.

JOHN H. CHESAK, who, for the last fifteen years has been secretary of the Board of Education at Athens, Wis., for many years has been engaged in the lumber industry and is one of three brothers owning the Athens Manufacturing Company, a firmly established and highly prosperous business enterprise of Marathon county. He was born in Washington county, Wis., April 13, 1862, and is a son of Martin and Mary (Sigmond) Chesak.

Martin Chesak and wife were natives of Austria. They came with their children to America in 1857 and sought a home in Washington county, Wis., and for three years Martin Chesak followed his trade of brickmaker. He then engaged in farming until 1884, when he came to Marathon county and afterward, until his death, was interested in lumber and merchandising. His children were: Joseph; Barbara, who is deceased, was the wife of Herman Schrieber; John H. ; Mary, who is the wife of Joseph Masak ; Frank F., who is prominent in public affairs in Marathon county; and Josephine, who is the widow of John A. Blecha.

John H. Chesak has been a resident of Marathon county since he was nineteen years of age, and has spent twenty-one years at Athens, Wis. He was given excellent educational advantages, attending the Normal School at Oshkosh, Wis., for three years and taking a commercial course of one year at Wausau, and for eight years before embarking in the lumber business was a school teacher, teaching a district school one year and one village school six years.

Mr. Chesak was married September 24, 1889, to Miss Tena Hurt, a daughter of Frank Hurt, of Iowa, and at death she left two children: George J. and Helen A. The second marriage of Mr. Chesak was to

Miss Emily E. Penegor, who was born in Michigan, a daughter of Jeremiah Penegor, and they have one daughter, Dorothy. In his political sentiments Mr. Chesak is a republican. For six years he served in the office of a notary public and has always been a dependable, conscientious citizen. He is identified with the National Fraternal League, the F. O. E., the Beavers and the Polish National Alliance, while, with his family he belongs to the Roman Catholic church.

GUSTAVE E. KOPPLIN, one of the representative men of the town of Stettin, for many years a satisfactory public official and the owner of 280 acres of fine land in section 10, lives eleven miles northwest of Wausau, this being known as the Basswood Grove Farm. He was born in the town of Stettin, Marathon county. Wis., March 16, 1869, and is a son of Frederick and Caroline (Kiepke) Kopplin.

The parents of Mr. Kopplin were born, reared and married in Germany and the oldest of their six children was born there, the two survivors both living in the town of Stettin. A cabinetmaker by trade, Frederick Kopplin worked at the same for one year after reaching Milwaukee, \\'is., and as he was skilled in all kinds of fine carpenter work could, no doubt, have provided well for his familj' in that way in the course of time but he was anxious to own land and in 1857 settled on eighty acres, in section 13, in the town of Stettin, this land being now the property of Herman Kopplin. There were very few Indians yet remaining although then tlie country was mainly unsettled. There Frederick Kopplin engaged in farming during his active years and on that place both he and wife died, she in 1890, when aged sixty-one years. He was of more robust constitution and lived to be eighty-six years old. dying in 1910 and their burial was in the Stettin Cemetery Association ground. They were excellent people, worthy of remembrance and were members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

With his brothers and sisters, Gustave E. Kopplin attended the public schools in the town of Stettin and afterward took a full business course in a commercial college at Wausau. He made farming and stock raising his choice of occupation and has followed the same in his native town. He has cleared thirty acres of the farm on which he lives and put up all the substantial buildings and after purchasing his other land also made improvements on that. He devotes his summers to his land and his winters mainly to lumbering.

dorff, a daughter of Albert Wendorff, and they have had eight children: Else, an infant son deceased; Hertha, Florence and Emma, twins; Franklin, Elise and Gilbert. Mr. Kopplin and his family belong to the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he is president. He is interested in the Stettin Insurance Company and is a stockholder in other enterprises. In politics a republican, Mr. Kopplin has very often been selected by his party and fellow citizens for public office, and has served as school director of District No. 6, three terms as assessor and twelve terms as constable. He belongs to the local singing society "Eintracht."

HERMAN A. WENDORFF, who has acceptably filled the office of town clerk of the town of Stettin since 1897 and owns a fine farm of 160 acres, situated in section 16, six miles northeast of Marathon City, was born in the town of Stettin, Marathon county. Wis., July i, 1869, and is a son of Albert and Wilhelmina (Grade) Wendorfif. Albert Wendorfif and wife were born and went to school in Germany but came to .America unmarried, their wedding taking place in the United States, and they had four sons and four daughters born to them, four of these being residents of Marathon county.

Herman A. Wendorfif attended the public schools in the town of Stettin and also the Wausau city schools for a few terms and thus prepared himself for teaching school. He taught six terms in the town of Stettin, two terms in Rib Falls and two terms in the town of Berlin and fulfilled every expectation as a teacher. During this period he was looking to the future and purchased first a tract of forty acres, for which he paid $1,000, and subsequently an eighty-acre tract, paying $2,000 for this land, all in one body. As soon as he owned his land he began to desire to improve it and remodeling of the buildings and erecting of new ones followed until both his ideas of taste and his demands for convenience were satisfied and comfort assured. He carries on general farming and raises high grade Guernsey cattle, keeping twentyfive head. Mr. Wendorfif has always been a wideawake, industrious, enterprising man of business and has so directed his life and afifairs that he has won the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He is a republican in politics and for several years has been serving as health officer, and has served in other capacities such as justice of the peace and has also been the official crop reporter. He is a member of the Stettin Insurance Company.

holz, who was born in the town of Stettin, March 2, 1875, a daughter of George and Minnie (Judes) Lodholz. Both parents of Mrs. Wendorff were born in Germany but they were married in America and they had nine children, eight of whom are living and seven of these reside in Marathon county. Mr. and Mrs. Lodholz are both deceased, the latter dying when aged fifty-three years and the former when aged seventy-two years and their burial was in the town of Stettin. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wendorff : Hugo, Martha, Alice and Susan, all of whom are being carefully reared and given every possible advantage. The family belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which Mr. W'endorfif is secretary. He has always been musically inclined and is president of the local German Singing Society, "Eintraclit."

JOSEPH RIPCZIXSKE, who has been a resident of Marathon county for thirty-eight years and has been engaged in the fire insurance, real estate and steamship agency business at Wausau since April, 1890, was born in Germany, May 26, i860, and accompanied his parents, Joseph and Wilhelmina Ripczinske. to America. The family home was established at Minneapolis, IMinn.

In 1875 Joseph Ripczinske left Minnesota and came to Marathon county and learned the milling business with a brother-in-law, who had a mill at Rib Falls. From there he came to Wausau and worked in the Herchenbach-, now the McEachron mill, until he was twenty-three years of age, becoming foreman there. For the next five years he was engaged in the manufacturing of soda water and after discontinuing that line, in 1890, embarked in his present business. He represents nine of the old line fire insurance companies and handles both citj' and country real estate. He has always been active and interested as a citizen and is now serving in his third term as a member of the public library board. ....

In 1887 Mr. Repczinske was married to Miss Catherine Sherman, who died in 1897, survived by two children : Raymond, who is a resident of Denver, Colo., and John. His second union was with Mrs. Annie C. (Goldhammer) Young, and they have five children: Catherine, Clarinda, Marie, Joseph and Annie. Mr. Repczinske and family are members of the Roman Catholic church and fraternally he is identified with the Catholic Knigrhts of Wisconsin.

CHARLES REINHART, one of the representative citizens of the town of Wausau, serving as town treasurer, resides five and one-half mile northeast of Wausau, on a well improved farm of forty acres and owns additionally a tract of eighty acres lying north of his home farm. He was born in the town of Wausau, in Marathon county. Wis., January 9, 1859, and is a son of Martin and Amelia (Stolze) Reinhart.

Martin Reinhart was born in Germany and reached the United States when a young man. He was an early pioneer in Rock county, where he secured work by the day and being very industrious soon accumulated enough capital to encourage him to venture on farming. He rented land for a few years in Rock county, in the meanwhile buying a yoke of oxen and a wagon and when he came with this outfit to Marathon county he found his few neighbors much interested as his was the first farm wagon ever brought to the town of Wausau. He located one-half mile east of his son's present farm and lived there during the rest of his life, which extended to eighty-two years. He married Amelia Stolze, who was born in Germany and was brought to America when twelve years old. She survived until October, 1912, when aged seventy-six years. Of their eight children there are five still living: Irving, George, Laura, Walter and Charles, all residing in the town of Wausau except Walter, who lives in Montana.

All the school advantages that Charles Reinhart enjoyed in boyhood. he secured in the town of Wausau but they were few. Times were hard, books were scarce, and his services were needed by his father on the home farm and he was only ten years old when he was put to work hauling logs. Subsequently he learned the carpenter trade and, with his many activities, Mr. Reinhart has always been a very busy man. He has lived on his smaller farm for about twenty-five years and not only put up all of his own substantial buildings but a number of those all through this section, working at his trade largely until 1909, since when he has given more attention to his farming.

Mr. Reinhart was married first to Miss Anna Hackbarth, and they had two children : Edward and Lena. His second marriage was to Miss Mollie Hinkelmann, and they have three children: Esther, Nora and Harvey. In politics Mr. Reinhart has always been a democrat. In 1892 he was elected town treasurer and served four years and in the spring of 1912 was again elected to this office, previously having served three terms as school clerk. Mr. Reinhart and family belong to the Lutheran church.

HENRY SCHUBRING, general farmer and well known citizen of the town of Wausau, who resides on his eighty acres situated six miles northeast of Wausau, was born on the old home place in 1877, and is a son of William Schubring, who, for many years was a highly respected farmer of this town. He was born in Germany and came from there to the United States when nineteen years of age, and when he reached Wisconsin he settled on the farm on which he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring July 10, 1904. He married Barbara Dick, who was also of German parentage, and they became the parents of eight children, Henry being the second in order of birth.

After his school days Henry Schubring assisted in the work on the home farm and remained with his parents until he located on eighty acres received from his father and continued there until May 18, 191 1, when he came to his present place, this being the old Rheinhart farm. Although he did not find it necessary to replace any of the buildings, he remodeled many of them and did other improving, taking pride in making this one of the best kept and most attractive properties on this road. Under his excellent methods his land proves very productive and Mr. Schubring is numbered with the town's prosperous citizens.

In June, 1904. Mr. Schubring was married to Miss Lillie Harding, who was born in ^Marathon county, a daughter of Daniel and ]\Iinnie (\\"ebber) Harding. Daniel Harding was a son of Valentine Harding and they came to Marathon county very early, from Illinois, and were among the pioneer millwrights, and Daniel Harding was also a farmer. He married Minnie Webber, who was born in Germany and she survived him and was married second to John Heckbarth. To her first marriage wife of Mr. Schubring. Three children were born to her second marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Schubring have two interesting little daughters: Gertrude, who was born April 18, 1905; and Eleanor, who was born January 25, 191 1. The family and all its connections belong to the Lutheran church, of which Mr. Schubring is treasurer. In politics he does his own thinking and casts his vote for the candidate he feels sure is able and honest, without regard to party.

O. GEORGE SCHILLING, vice president and superintendent of the Wausau Novelty Company, at Wausau, Wis., has been associated with this business enterprise since it was founded, eighteen years ago, all this time having been superintendent of the business, and for two years he has been vice president of the company. Mr. Schilling was born

In 1866, when O. George Schilling was four years old, his parents came to America and found a home at Plymouth, in Sheboygan county, Wis., where his father opened a cooper shop. They lived there for nine years and then moved to Menasha, Wis. In the public schools Mr. Schilling secured his education and then served an apprenticeship to the cabinetmaking trade and afterward went into the general mill business, with which he was practically identified all the time prior to coming to Wausau, in December, 1892. Mr. Schilling is regarded as one of the far-sighted business men of the city and in addition to looking after the interests above mentioned, is one of the directors of the Wausau Building, Loan and Investment Company.

Mr. Schilling married Miss Leah Bedell, of Wausau, and they have one daughter, Gladys. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.

CARL A. ZEMKE, who is serving both as town clerk and as school clerk, of the. town of Wausau, belongs to one of the old and respected families of this section and lives on his farm of eighty acres, situated three and one-half miles east of Wausau. He was born January 27, 1881, on the old Zemke homestead in Marathon county, and is a son of John G. Zemke and Christianna (Hansel) Zemke.

John Gottleib Zemke came to the United States with his parents, in 1858, locating first at Watertown, Wis. He worked as a laborer in various places all through this section until 1861 when he came to Marathon county and settled on 120 acres of land in the town of Wausau, clearing and improving the same and as long as he felt able continued to carry on his farm industries, since when he has lived with a son, being now in his seventy-seventh year. Many changes have been brought about in farming methods during his lifetime and he is yet interested although no longer making any personal experiments. He married a lady in 1864, who also was born in Germany and accompanied her brothers and sisters to the United States while young, and ten children were born to them, namely: Mrs. John Marquardt ; Mrs. Frank Tress, of the town of Texas; Herman; Mrs. Charles Schuetz, deceased; Carl A.; Fred; Lewis ; and Amelia and Ida, both of whom died young.

until he bought a farm and then turned his attention to an agricultural life. He settled on that farm, five miles east from W'ausau, in 1900, and resided there for four years and then came to his present place which he afterward greatly improved. He built a new barn and practically rebuilt the house and made all his surroundings comfortable and well adapted to the demands made by his farm industries.

Mr. Zemke married Miss Frances Sternberg, a daughter of Gustave Sternberg, proprietor of the Park Hotel at Wausau. They belong to the Lutheran church and as Mr. Zemke is musical he assists in the church choir. Although an independent voter he was chosen by his fellow citizens as a dependable man in the ofiice of town clerk in the election of 1912, and reelected in 1913. and does his full duty irrespective of any political interests.

JOSEPH BURGER, one of the best known residents of the town of Wausau, who has resided on his present well improved farm of 120 acres, situated five miles northeast of Wausau, for the past thirty-seven years, was born near Detroit, Mich., in 1851, and is the eldest son of Mathias and Anna (Wirtz) Burger.

Mathias Burger was born in Germany and from there came to the United States when aged twenty years, locating at Detroit, Mich., where he followed the shoemaking trade. On September 29, 1858 he moved to the town of Wien, Marathon county, Wis., and followed fanning until 1898, when he remo.ved to Marathon City, where he lived for four years, his death occurring there at the age of eighty-two 3'ears. his son George purchasing his farm. He was married to Anna Wirtz. who was also born in Germany and was twelve years old when she accompanied her parents to the United States, living first at Parkersburg, Va., and afterward coming to Detroit, Mich., where she was married. Her death took place in 1909, when she had reached her seventy-ninth year. She was the wise, careful and beloved mother of a family of eight children, namely : Joseph ; Jacob, living in Marathon county : Mrs. John Kane ; Mrs. Anna Hershfeld. living at La Crosse, Wis.; George, residing at Edgar; Mrs. D. P. King, living at Edgar; Peter, living at Chattanooga, Tenn. ; and Anton, living at Tomahawk, Wis.

Joseph Burger attended the district schools in his native section and afterward, for ten terms, taught school and made a very good record as a teacher. In 1875 he bought his farm, on which he moved in the spring of 1876, and has continued to live here. He has sixty acres of his land cleared, has made many improvements in the way of building, and carries on general farming and stock raising, displaying excellent judgment in his operations and consequently meeting with very satisfactory results.

Mr. Burger was married to Miss Paulina Mathie, a daughter of Joseph and Magdalen Mathie. Joseph Mathie came to New York from Wiirtemberg, Germany, and for nine years engaged there in cabinetmaking. In 1861 he moved to Marathon covmty and lived on his farm in the town of Wausau until his death at the age of eighty-one years. He married Magdalena Heller, who died here when aged sixty-eight years and they had six children : Joseph, who died when aged thirty-seven years; Louise, who lives on the old home place; Charles, who died at the age of thirty-two years ; Paulina, who is the wife of Mr. Burger ; and two children who died in infancy. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burger: Hubert, formerly town clerk, married Selma Prahl, and they have had the following children: James; Laura, who married Walter Manecke; and Lawrence, Isabel and Esther. The entire family belongs to the Catholic church. In politics Mr. Burger is an independent voter but he is looked upon as so reliable a citizen that he has been kept continuously in public office ever since he became a resident of the town.

EMIL R. HOHMANN, senior member of the firm of Hohmann & Kuntz, hardware merchants at No. 116 Scott street, Wausau, is one of the old hardware men here, having been in the business for a quarter of a century. He was born in 1866, in Germany, and was four years old when his parents brought him to the United States, they settling in Milwaukee Wis., where his father, F. Hohmann, followed the mason trade. Six years afterward the family moved to Wausau.

From the age of ten to fifteen years, Emil R. Hohman attended school at Wausau and then went to Chicago, where he remained five years during which time he learned the upholstering trade. After coming back to Wausau he entered the employ of R. Baumann and continued with him for thirteen years, then went into partnership with William Kuckuk, the firm during its existence of four yars being Kuckuk & Hohmann, his location being at present place, but for eight years afterward was in business for himself on Clinton street, west side. On January I, 1912, he bought the stock and store of William Kuckuk, with whom he

Mr. Hohmann married Miss Emma Marquardt, of Wausau, and they have four children: Irene, Elmer, Adelbert and Harold. He is identified fraternally with the Owls and the ^lodern Woodmen.

CHARLES E. TURNER, president of the Wausau Box and lumber Company at Wausau and interested also in other directions pertaining to the civic and material welfare of the city as well as to his personal concerns, was born at Port Atkinson, Jefferson county, Wis., January 6, 1855, and is a son of George Francis and Mary Wilcox Turner.

George Francis Turner was born in Hamilton county, N. Y., and died at Port Atkinson in 1884, when aged seventy-two years. He led an agricultural life after coming to Wisconsin sometime in the forties. He married Mary Wilcox who was born also in Hamilton county and died at Port Atkinson, in her sixty-eighth year. They had the following children: Nellie, who is deceased; George and Nettie, both of whom died young; Mary, who is the wife of George Whiting of Markesan, Wis.; Carrie A., who is the wife of Albert Fletcher of Elgin, 111. ; Fred B., who is a resident of Oskaloosa, Iowa ; and Charles E.. who was the fifth of the family in order of birth.

Charles E. Turner attended the district schools and the Jeflferson Liberal Institute at Jeflferson, Wis., and was twenty years old when he put his books aside and started into business as an apiarist, for which he had been preparing for four years. On a farm in Jefferson county he continued in the culture of bees and production of honey until 1881 and when he retired from this industry owned 400 swarms of bees, for three years having been engaged in the business at Dancy, in Marathon county. Mr. Turner then entered the employ of Segelke, Kolhaus & Co., mill operators at La Crosse, Wis., as store manager and bookkeeper and continued until October, 1888, at which time he came to Wausau where he became general manager for Parcher - J. and A. Stewart, lumbermen. He remained with the above firm until August, 1892, when the Wausau Box and Lumber Company was organized, of which he was one of the incorporators, becoming president, with C. V. Bardine as vice president and W. B. Scholfield "as secretar}' and treasurer. In 1898 Mr. Turner and Mr. Scholfield purchased the entire business and they have continued together ever since. The capital involved is $100,000 and the product is knockdown boxes, box shocks and crates, shipments being made to all parts of the United States and to Mexico, employment being afforded some 135 operatives, about 13,000,000 feet of lumber being consumed annually. The plant is representative of one of the strongest business concerns of Wausau. Mr. Turner is a stockholder and one of the directors in the First National Bank at Wausau, is president of the Public Library board and for a number of years has served as a member of the water commission, his influence having been considerable in promoting the establishing of the city's public utilities. Since 1896 Mr. Turner has been identified with the democratic party.

In March, 1893, Mr. Turner was married to Miss Georgianna Gamble, daughter of William Gamble, of Wausau, and they have four children: Wells E., who is a student at Beloit; Grace Adelaide, who is a student in the Wausau High School ; and Charles and George F. Mr. Turner is a member of the Universalist church, and is a director of the Wausau Club. Fraternally he is a Mason.

KURT A. BEYREIS, clerk of the courts of Marathon county, a popular and efficient public official, was born in the village of Uderslebin, Germany, October 29, 1873, and is a son of Charles and Emelie (Lehman) Beyreis. In 1882 the Beyreis family came to Marathon county and ever since have been identified with this section. Prior to the Civil War, however, Charles Beyreis, the father, had emigrated to "America and for three years of this war he was a soldier in the Federal service, a member of a New York infantry regiment. After the war he returned to Germany and married there and remained until after the birth of four of his nine children, all of whom survive : Edward, who lives in Marathon county ; Bertha, who is the wife of Frank Feldbruegg, of this county; Annie, who is the wife of Philip Conrad of Rib Lake, Wisconsin; Kurt A.; Richard, who lives in Marathon county; Charles, who lives in Wausau ; Lena, who is the wife of Louis Hall, of this county ; Emma, who is the wife of John M. Hein, of Marathon county; and Fred, who is a resident of Clark county. The mother of the above family died in January, 1912, but the father survives and resides at Dorchester, Wisconsin; for thirty years having been a farmer in Marathon county.

Kurt A. Beyreis was educated in the public schools of Holton, in the Medford High School in Taylor county, and the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana. After leaving the above institution in 1896 he began to teach the district schools and continued for fourteen years and during this long period became well and favorably known over the county. In 1910 he was elected to the ofifice of clerk of the circuit and municipal courts, on the democratic ticket, and subsequently was reelected and has served continuously since January i, 1911.

On October 7, 1903, Mr. Beyreis was married to Miss Mary Feala, a daughter of John Feala. Her death occurred July 5, 191 1, and three children survive her: Myrtle, aged eight years; Gertrude, aged six years; and Arthur, who is three years old. Mr. Beyreis was reared in the Lutheran faith. He belongs to the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Eagles, and also to the Commercial and Wausau Clubs.

NICHOLAS H. ZENDER, proprietor of the Crystal Hotel, at Wausau, situated on Third street, directly opposite the Marathon County Court House, an admirable location, has been in the hotel business here for ten years and his reputation as a host extends all over this section. He was born at New Riegel, Seneca county, O., September 12, 1861.

Nicholas H. Zender was reared and educated in Ohio and when he came West in 1885, he remained a resident of Chicago, Illinois, until November 20, 1886, when he came to Wisconsin and has been a resident of Wausau ever since. For about sixteen years he was in the retail ' liquor business, after which he purchased the Crystal Hotel which he has made one of the leading hostelries of the city. It is a commodious brick structure, equipped with electric lights and steam heat, with baths and other conveniences, the same applying to the annex, in which there is provision for the entertaining of those guests who prefer buffet privileges. He conducts here also a cigar stand, billiard parlor and an excellent lunch room, the hotel proper being operated on the European plan. In every way possible Mr. Zender contributes to the comfort of the traveling public and his house is generally full of guests.

Mr. Zender belongs to the Odd Fellows, Eagles, and to the Elks. In politics he has his own opinions but for business reasons is not active. He is unmarried.

MICHAEL ANGEL HURLEY, who, for thirty-nine years was a member of the Marathon county bar in active practice but now retired, was universally recognized as a leader of the same, being an able advo- cate and unusually gifted in oratory. He was born in the village of Bytown, in Ontario, Dominion of Canada, October 22, 1840, a son of William and Mary Hurley. Hi,s maternal grandfather was an officer in the Scotch Grays, a noted regiment in the British army which participated in the battle of Waterloo, where he lost his life. William Hurley was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and in early manhood came to Canada and there became a railroad man. About 1841 he moved to Ogdensburg, N. Y., and there his death occurred in 1850.

Michael Angel Hurley was but ten years old when his father died and as his mother was an invalid he was practically, at that early age, thrown entirely upon his own resources. During his father's lifetime he had been carefully instructed and no doubt the father so impressed the child with a love of learning that aroused an ambition which the son cherished through many hardships until he secured the educational training that opened up the life career in which success crowned his efforts. After a comparatively short period in the public schools necessity made him seek some way of earning money, finding work as a sailor on the great lakes the first to come to hand, and with the money so earned he laid the foundation of his educational fund. In the fall of 1856 he secured employment in a sawmill at Schofield, Wisconsin, and remained until he had earned $400 and then secured a position at Stevens Point where he could work for his board and lodging and still have time for study. He was methodical and practical in his arrangements, engaging a local clergyman to direct his Latin studies, having learned his first verbs under his father, and another local scholar to teach him Greek, while, under the principal of the Stevens Point High School, he pursued a course in mathematics and in other higher branches. This plan he followed for several years, during this time occasionally teaching school as well as studying. In 1861 he secured a situation as a hotel clerk in Chicago, and while there took private lessons with the instructors in the old Chicago University.

From Chicago Mr. Hurley went to Berlin, Wisconsin, where he entered upon the study of law under the direction of Thomas Curran Ryan, and in 1869, at Dartford, Green Lake county, W^is.. was admitted to the bar, and after his admission to the bar he formed a partnership with O. S. Silver, and later he formed a partnership with G. D. Waring and subsequently he was elected district attorney both of the city of Berlin, Green Lake county, and served one year in that office, when he resigned in October, 1873, came to Wausau, in the following month forming a law partnership with WiUis C. Silverthorn, the latter of whom subsequently was elected judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit. The firm of Silverthorn & Hurley became one of great legal prominence and gained reputation throughout this entire section during much successful litigation that passed through its hands. Notable was the case of the Gogebic Iron lands, in 1881, the owners of which engaged this firm to recover the titles which had been lost through tax titles. The consequent litigation was carried on through great and masterly skill by this firm and brought success to their clients and a one-fourth interest to the firm. Having reason to be grateful for the work accomplished by Mr. Hurley in this case, these clients did him the honor of naming the present city of Hurley, Wisconsin, to perpetuate his name. In 1883 Mr. Ryan became a partner in the firm and in 1886 G. D Jones was admitted. In 1889 Mr. Hurley organized the Hurley Gold Mining Company, in California, and moved there to take charge of his interests and for two years engaged in the practice of law at San Francisco. In the fall of 1897 he returned to Wausau and re-entered his old firm, and in 1898, when Mr. Silverthorn was elected to the bench, the firm was reorganized as Ryan, Hurley & Jones, and since the retirement of Mr. Ryan, has continued as Hurley & Jones, although, for the past five years, Mr. Hurley has only looked after his individual interests. Perhaps the state has no lawyer who has a superior knowledge of fundamental law than has Mr. Hurley and his address before the Wisconsin State Bar Association is held as a classic by the bench and bar of this state.

On June 16, 1874, Mr. Hurley was married to Miss Clara H. Leonard, a lady well known in social and philanthropic circles here. For several years she has served as president of the Ladies' Auxiliary Society and Advancement Association of Wausau. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley have had two sons, Fred and Judd, the former of whom died while the family resided in California. They are members of the Presbyterian church. In years past Mr. Hurley has responded to calls from the republican party for active campaign work, yet he has never sought nor desired political preferment, his profession claiming his entire time and interest. He has served as a member of the board of law examiners, appointed by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and is president of the Wisconsin State Bar Association. He is treasurer of the Northern Chief Iron Company. In times of public calamity or when private charity has been necessary, no one has been more ready or will- ing than has Mr. Hurley to assume responsibility. He has long been a member and liberal supporter of the Wausau City and the Wausau Country Clubs.

HERMz-\N J. ABRAHAM, sheriff of Marathon county, is well known in public, military and business circles at Wausau, of which city he is a native. His birth took place here February 14, 1870, and he is a son of William F. and Hannah Abraham, both of whom were born in Germany. ' They came to Wausau in 1869 and the father engaged in manufacturing brick. His death occurred April 19, 1891, at the age of fifty-seven years. -He organized the old Germania Guard, of which he was first lieutenant until he retired in 1884, a man well posted in military life as he was a veteran of the German- Austrian War of 1866. The mother survived until August, 1898. They had three sons and one daughter.

Hemian J. Abraham attended the public schools at Wausau until old enough to be self-supporting and then continued his education in the night schools. For eighteen years he was foreman of the Curtis & Yale Company at Wausau. Inheriting perhaps his father's taste for military life, Mr. Abraham, who is now a major in the W. N. G., enlisted in Co. G, 3rd Inf., October 4, 1889. He was appointed corporal, September 5, 1890; sergeant, May 7, 1891 ; commissioned second lieutenant, January 7, 1892: commissioned first lieutenant, September 11, 1894; commissioned captain, January 14. 1896; commissioned captain Wisconsin Volunteers, May 11, 1898; participated in all the engagements with the 3rd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers during the Spanish- American War ; mustered out with his regiment, January 4, 1899; commissioned captain W. N. G., March 28, 1900, with date of rank from January 14, 1896; commissioned major, May 15, 1910. His shooting record as a soldier reflects exceeding credit upon him in every contest. From 1891 until 1894 he was a member of the state and regimental teams; winner of the Falk Skirmish Medal in 1894; member of the state and regimental teams from 1895 to 1896; and winner of the Holway Diamond Medal in estimating distances in 1908. Major Abraham has been a lifelong Democrat and his loyal services have been shown appreciation. On January i, 191 1, he was appointed under sheriff of Marathon county, and in 1912 was elected sheriff on the Democratic ticket. A man of unflinching courage, proved valor and fortified by experience in the office of under sheriff, he seems exceptionally well fitted for the responsible office of sheriff. Personally he has friends in every section of the county. He has attended two General

On March 25, 1895, Sheriff Abraham was married to Miss Alvina Pieper, a daughter of Ludwig Pieper of Wausau, and they have three children : Douglas, Adaline and Gordon.

PAUL SEYMOUR, the genial proprietor of the Adams House, a first class hostelry, located on the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets, Wausau, has additional business interests, owning a saw mill with steam power at Nutterville, Marathon county, Wisconsin. Mr. Seymour was born in the town of Easton, Marathon county, July 4, 1870, and is a son of Nelson and Hattie Seymour, who came to Marathon county among the early permanent settlers.

Paul Seymour grew to manhood in the town of Easton and assisted his father in the care of the home farm of sixty-six acres. This property subsequently became his own and after selling the same he moved to Nutterville, where he purchased the mill and for eight years also conducted a store. On June 20, 191 1, he took charge of the Adams House, Wausau, and from that time on patrons of this hotel have found comfortable and pleasant conditions surrounding them, with an excellent meal service and at very reasonable rates. Mr. Seymour is justly popular with the traveling public.

Mr. Seymour married Miss Jennie, an adopted daughter of Daniel Hardy, and they have four children: Earl, Grace, Roy and Elmer. Mr. Seymour is identified with the fraternal order of Eagles and belong also to the Germania.