Marathon County, Wisconsin - Chapter 35, 1913 (part 8 of 10)

EDWARD GENSMANN, a prosperous general farmer residing in the town of Main, owns 160 acres of fine land, 100 of which is cleared and ten acres of which is used by the state for a horticultural station. Mr. Gensmann was born at Wausau, Wisconsin, January i, 1876, and is a son of Jacob and Amelia (Wilde) Gensmann.

Jacob Gensmann and wife were both born in Germany but came to Wausau prior to their marriage and now live in comfortable retirement in that city. During his active years he was a lumberman. Their children are: Jacob, William, Emma, wife of Paul Gebhardt ; and Henry, Edward, Matilda, Leo and Lydia.

which time he has been engaged in farming. On the land selected by the state as an experiment station, apple, plum and cherry trees were set. out in 1897, and their experimental culture has shown that the climate and situation will produce the finest of apples and plums.

In 1902 Mr. Gensmann was married to Miss Hulda Machel, who was born in Marathon county, a daughter of Herman and Tena (Schultz) Machel, farming people in the town of Main. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Gensmann are : Matilda, wife of Albert Borchart ; Emil, Robert and Edward; Emma, wife of Anton Kluetz ; and Clara, Herman and Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Gensmann have three children: Leo, Norman and Elmer. Politically Mr. Gensmann is a democrat and is a member of the town school board. With his family he belongs to St. Stephen's Church at Wausau.

ADOLPH KNOEDLER, who has conducted his harness making shop at Mosinee, Wisconsin, since 1892, is a representative business man and substantial citizen of the place. He was born in 1861, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and is a son of Jacob and Rosena ( Egender) Knoedler. The father of Mr. Knoedler was a small farmer in Germany and there he died. The mother still resides in the old country as do all of their ten children except three who came to America and one who died while serving in the German-French War in 1 870-1. They were named: Joseph, Cieirack, Floren, John, Cresenzia C, Casper, Antone, Adolph, Julia and Carl.

Adolph Knoedler attended the German schools as is obligatory, and then learned the harness making and upholstery business before he was twenty years old, when he came to the United States. He located at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and worked there at his trade until 1888, when he went to Wausau, Wisconsin, where he was in the employ of George Lindsey, and from there in 1892, came to Mosinee. He has always been an industrious, careful man, one who thoroughly understands his business and has enjoyed excellent patronage. Mr. Knoedler has made property investments here and is one of the stockholders in the local telephone company. In politics he is a Republican and has served one term as a member of the town board and two terms as assessor.

In 1886 Mr. Knoedler was married to Miss Mary Alice Keefe, a daughter of William H. and Catherine (Kennedy) Keefe, of Haider, Wisconsin. Mrs. Knoedler has the following brothers and sisters : Maggie, John, Martin, Kate, Celia and William. Kate is the wife of

Albert Paronto, and Celia is the wife of Garry Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Knoedler have one daughter and two sons. Daisy May, who is the wife of Walter Guenther, and they have three sons, Charles, Jacob and William. The family belongs to the Catholic chufch. Mr. Knoedler is a member of the Knights of Wisconsin and president of the same; belongs to the Knights of Columbus at Wausau ; is president of the Fraternal Relief Association, and is secretary of the Catholic Relief Society of Mosinee.

LOUIS DEININGER, who is one of Marathon county's well known and highly respected men, resides on his valuable farm of i6o acres lying in section 26, town of Cassel, was born at McKeesport, Pa., April 2, 1859, and is a son of Anson Michael and Maggie (Herly) Deininger. Anson Michael Deininger was born in Germany and was sixteen years of age when he came to America and went to work in coal mines in Pennsylvania. He married Maggie Herly, who was also born in Germany, and they had seven children, four of whom yet live. Louis was about seventeen years old when the family came to Marathon county and located on the present home farm. At that time the entire tract was covered with heavy timber but the father, with the help of his sons cleared ninety acres. The father put up a residence on the site of which Louis Deininger later built the present comfortable brick residence. The parents died on this farm, the father living to the age of ninety-two years.

Louis Deininger attended the schools of Burnham, Pa., but after coming to Marathon county found little time for books, work awaiting him on the farm and in the woods and in the saw mill at Mosinee. He here carries on general farming and on this place all his children have been born. He married Miss Annie Golbach, who was born in the town of Cassel, a daughter of Albert Golbach, and they have three children: Joseph, Rudy and Mary. The family belongs to St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. Deininger is a stockholder in the Edgar-Cassel Telephone Company, in the State Bank at Marathon City, and in the Marathon City Brewing Company. While never active in political life Mr. Deininger is a well informed man concerning public matters, and never fails to cast his vote for the Democratic party.

ALBERT J. FEHLHABER. president of the Berlin Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company, of the town of Berlin, and since February 18, 1895, postmaster of the village of Naugart,

Wisconsin, is one of the representative men of this section of Marathon county and is proprietor of the leading general mercantile store at Naugart. He was born in the town of Berlin, October 2, 1869, and is a son of August and Amelia (Plisch) Fehlhaber.

After attending the public schools in his native town, Mr. Fehlhaber became a student in the Wausau High School and later in the Wausau Business College, after which he taught school for six years, in the towns of Maine, Rib Falls and Stettin. After his marriage he was a clerk in a store at \\'ausau for one year and then purchased his present store at Naugart, which was formerly conducted by William F. Beilke. He carries a large stock of staple merchandise and does a heavy business. Although the mercantile enterprise keeps him quite busy, he has found time to serve acceptably in a number of public offices, being secretary of the local board of health, and since October i, 1908, has been a justice of the peace. As above stated, he became postmaster in February, 1895, and now has a rural route connection which was established May 15, 1904, the carrier being Henry W. Jehn, who covers over twenty-five miles of territory. One daily mail is received at Naugart. Since October i, 1908, Mr. Fehlhaber has been town clerk of Berlin, having been elected without opposition. He is also secretary of the Naugart Telephone Company. His position as the head of the Berlin Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company is one of responsibility, this organization carrying many risks through this section. It was incorporated December 27, 1875, with forty-seven members, 'the first officers being Albert Wendorf and A. W. Schmidt. The present officers are: Albert J. Fehlhaber, president; Frank Marth, vice president; F. G. Radlofif, secretary; William F. Lemke, treasurer; Frank Reinke, Marathon county assessor, and Fred Kleinschidt, Lincoln county assessor. The following. Gust Bauman, Wm. Geise, and Joe Woller make up the board of directors, elections taking place annually, three members being elected for three years.

Mr. Fehlhaber was married to Miss Amelia Beilke, of Berlin, and they have two children ; Lydia, who is assistant clerk in the postoffice ; and Francis, who is in school. The family belongs to the Lutheran church, Mr. Fehlhaber being a member of its board of trustees.

NICHOLAS J. SCHLAEFER, senior member of the firm of N. J. Schlaefer & Son, bakers, at Wausau, has been interested in this line here since the fall of 1908 and is a representative business man of the city.

The parents of Mr. Schlaefer emigrated to America when he was young. They landed at New York and crossed the country as far as Chicago, Illinois, remaining there for two months or until the father had selected a farm in Washington county, Wisconsin, to which they then moved and lived on the same for several years. Later the family removed to a farm in Bufifalo county and that continued the homestead for twenty years, the father owning this property for twelve years, when Nicholas J. purchased it and after owning it for eight years sold and then moved to Arcadia, Wisconsin. He went into the grain buying business for the W. W. Cargo Company, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and after two years at Arcadia moved to Sherwood, and after three years there, to Appleton. In 1889, after two years there he came to Wausau and here was engaged in carpentering until 1908, when he went into the baking business, for which he has well equipped, sanitary quarters and finds constant employment in his plant for three skilled bakers.

Mr. Schlaefer was married February 3, 1885, in Bufifalo county, Wisconsin, to Miss Elizabeth Theisen, and the following children have been born to them: John, who is associated with his father, was married September 17, 1912, to Clara Eskar; William, who is manager for the Paulsen Shoe Company, at La Crosse; Ida, who entered a convent and died in 1910 when aged twenty-three years; Erna Adelia, who died in 1909, when aged eighteen years ; Clemence : Jacob, who died when aged five months ; and Cecilia, Mary, Nicholas, Marcella and Charles. The family belongs to the Roman Catholic church. ^Ir. Schlaefer is» a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and also of St. Joseph's Society and has long been identified with the Eagles.

ALBERT JOHNSON, a well known resident of the town of Maine, where is situated his farm of 120 acres, was born in Norway, June 16. 1858, and is a son of John and Gena (Johnson) Johnson. In 1870 they came to Wisconsin and spent the rest of their lives in A\'aupaca county, where the father was a farmer. They had the following children : Cornelia, Anna, Albert, Gena, Tena, John and Lollie.

Albert Johnson was in his twelfth year when the family came to America and settled in Waupaca county, Wisconsin, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age and then came to Marathon county. Here he found plenty of work in the woods although it was very la- borous, and he continued to work as a hired hand at logging until he was about twenty-five years old. Then he went into partnership in the logging business with Dennis Donohue and they continued together for twelve years. Mr. Johnson then went to Boyd, Wisconsin, where he bought a farm and lived on it for four years and then sold to advantage and came to the one he now has in the town of Maine. The farm was cleared, but Mr. Johnson improved it and remodelled the buildings and now has a very comfortable home, and carries on general farming and is meeting with very satisfactory results.

In 1895 Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Minnie Liljequist, who was born at Wausau, January 20, 1872, a daughter of John and Alice (Johnson) Liljequist. The parents of Mrs. Johnson were born and married in Sweden and after coming to the United States lived for one year in New York and then came to Wausau, where he lived two years and then moved to Kelley, Wisconsin, where he followed farming and logging. Mr. Liljequist had eighteen years of medical practice in Sweden, but never had any diploma. He spent one year in Karlskrona, and one year in Malmo, Sweden, in hospitals studying medicine. After this he worked 18 years in a soldiers hospital caring for the sick. When his family came to Wausau there was only one building on the west side of the river and although not having a diploma he was ever ready to help or relieve the sick. Many a broken bone he set, healed old wounds, extracted teeth, etc. Here he followed logging and farming. They had five children older than Mrs. Johnson : Mary, Frank, Charles, Alma and Oran, and three younger: William, Alice and Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children: Albert and Hazel. They attend the Presbyterian church at \\'ausau. Mr. Johnson casts his vote with the Republican party.

WILLIAM A. PAFF, who is a well known business man of Wassau, dealing in cement, lime, sand, sewer pipe, etc., with office at No. 216 Third street and with warehouse on Shingle street, was born in this city, June 17, 1870, and is a son of Jacob and Sophia (Doell) Pafif. The father was born in Germany and when he came to the United States in the winter of 1848-49 he located at Wausau and here was engaged in a general mercantile business until in the early seventies, when he sold. His death occurred at Wausau.

tinned for several years, when he entered the employ of his brother, Carl Paff, as his bookkeeper. In 1883 the late Carl Paff, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Fred Zentner, embarked in the cement, lime and sand business under the firm name of Zentner & PafT and they continued together for several years when Mr. Pafif bought out his partner and ran until 1899, when William A. Paff bought the business, and Carl Paff died in 1908. Mr. Paff is enjoying a profitable volume of business and is numbered with the city's reliable business men and owns the building in which his office is located. He has never been very active in politics but has settled convictions and when necessity arises is not backward in announcing them.

WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, president of Johnson's Electric Shop at W^ausau, contractors and electric supply dealers, is a well known citizen here, where he has lived since he was fourteen years of age. He was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, August 5, 1876, and is a son of Jeremiah F. Johnson, who is a retired railroad man, having continued as an engineer until he was sixty-five years of age, being then retired, some five years since.

Until prepared for the eighth grade, William R. Johnson was a student at La Crosse, and after accompanying his father to Wassau he entered this grade in the public schools and in 1895 graduated from the Wausau High School, after which he entered Lawrence University and spent three years in that institution. Mr. Johnson then became principal of the schools of Hermansville, Mich., and one year later was called from there to Wausau to become principal of the Lincoln School. At that time there were but six rooms in the building, but, largely through Mr. Johnson's influence, the taxpayers enlarged the school facilities and made it a 14-room building, four years later. He then suggested a manuel training course, the first equipments for which he purchased. The enthusiasm of the students, both boys and girls was so great that they willingly worked after regular school hours and so impressed the visiting members of the school board with the advantages that would accrue through a thorough training along this line, that they advised yiv. Johnson to take a summer course at Lewis Institute, Chicago, for better preparing him to take up this work and encouraged him to visit many of the leading centers of Industrial Education, at Indianapolis,

Dayton, Oak Park, and Minneapolis. The following year the Domestic Science and Manual Training equipments were installed in the high school building. Mr. Johnson then fitted up a room appropriately and in the following fall became principal and director of Manual Training in the Lincoln School, and interest in the work increased. He left this school in 1909, to enter into the electrical business, after a continuous period of ten years.

Johnson's Electric shop was incorporated in April, 1912, and constant employment is given to from six to eight men. The company contracts and does wiring of all kinds, both in and outside the city, and handles electric fixtures and supplies.

Mr. Johnson was married in August, 1904, to Miss Minerva Eckels, of Buena Vista, Wisconsin, who, before marriage, was a teacher in the Lincoln School. They have three sons: Raymond, Charles and Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a steward. Formerly he had charge of a mission school on the West side, the average attendance being seventy-five. He has been active in the Y. M. C. A. since its organization, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

NICHOLAS P. MOLTER, who is at the head of the Nicholas P. Molter Plumbing & Heating Company, No. 206 Scott street, Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1908, coming here from Chicago, Illinois, where he was born October 17, 1859. He is a son of Peter and Anna M. (Simon) Molter, who were natives of Berfeld Trier, Germany. They came to America in 1845, landing at New Orleans, where they remained one year and then came north to Chicago, Illinois. There Peter Molter continued to live until his death in 1874, when aged sixty-one years. He was a Roman Catholic in religion. Of his family of children reared in Chicago, there are three living: Mary, who is the wife of J. Henry Schoenemann ; Kate, who is the wife of Jacob Weiler ; and Nicholas P.

In his native city Nicholas P. J^Iolter attended school and assisted his father in the foundry and machine shops where he was employed, until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered upon his apprenticeship to the plumber's trade, which he completed and has been in the business ever since. His first visit to Wausau was made' in 1884. when he came here to be married, after which he returned to Chicago and went into the plumbing business and continued until he decided to re- turn to Wausau. Here he embarked in the same business as a partner of Benedict J. Hett, his brother-in-law, who had learned the business with Mr. Molter in the later's Chicago establishment. The firm of Hett & Molter existed until January, 1913, when Mr. Hett retired, and A. R. Marson and H. P. Molter, the latter being a son of Nicholas P. Molter, were admitted as partners. A general plumbing business, including steam and hot water heating, is carried on, and the firm, as a business house, stands high in public confidence.

In 1884 Mr. Molter was married at Wausau, to Miss Bertha T. Hett, whose father, Henry Hett, was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1846. Mrs. Molter passed her childhood in Chicago and came to Wausau in 1881, teaching school in this county until her marriage when once more she lived in Chicago. Since returning to Wausau with her husband and children in 1908, she has renewed many old friendships. Six children were l)orn to Mr. and Mrs. Molter, namely: Frank, who is deceased; H. P., who is a member of the Nicholas P. Molter Plumbing & Heating Company: Benedict A., who is in business at Los Angeles, Cal. : Catherine, who, after graduating from the \\'ausau High School and the Oshkosh Normal School, became a teacher at Appleton, \\'isconsin. ; Edna, who is a student in the Wausau High School ; and Leander J-. who attends St. Mary's School. Mr. Molter and family are members of the Catholic church. He belongs to the Royal League and the Catholic Order of Foresters, and to other local organizations.

HENRY RUDER, secretar)- and treasurer of the George Ruder Brewing Company, of A\'ausau, Wis., has efficiently served in this connection since 1892, when the company was incorporated, his father having been its founder. He was born in this city, in a house that then stood on the present brewery site, in 1871, and he is a son of George and Louisa Ruder, well known residents of Wausau.

Henry Ruder was reared in his native city and secured his education in its excellent schools and a business college at Milwaukee, which he attended three years. From boyhood he has been to some extent employed around his father's brewery and thus may be said to have grown up in the business, which, from a small beginning, has been developed into an industry that commands a capital stock of $200,000. In 1892 the business was incorporated with Jacob Gensman as president; Julius Ouade as vice president ; and Henry Ruder as secretary and

Henry Ruder married Miss Alma Kickbush, " who was born at Wausau, and they have two children: Paula and Leona. He is widely acquainted with business men all through this section and is prominent in Odd Fellowship, belonging to Lodge No. 215 and Marathon Encampment No. 79.

LOUIS C. LEAK, merchant tailor and representative business man of Wausau, Wisconsin, where he has been established for the past seventeen years, has been identified with this city for twent}'^-two years and is justly proud of his own hard won success and also of the general prosperity which makes Wausau a desirable place commercially and socially, in which to secure and maintain a home. He was born at New Lisbon, Wisconsin, March 24, 1871, and is a son of Julius and Augusta Leak. W'hile still an infant, the parents of Mr. Leak moved from New Lisbon to Tomah, in Monroe county, Wisconsin. By trade the father was a shoemaker, but never worked at his trade in this country, but was in the employ of the C. M. & St. P. Railroad for several years. Both parents died at Tomah.

Louis C. Leak was reared at Tomah, \\'isconsin, and there obtained a public school education, after which, as soon as his parents would permit, he went to Milwaukee and there learned the tailor's trade. For several years after his apprenticeship ended he traveled as a journeyman and then came to Wausau, where he worked for others until he embarked in business for himself. He is an expert cutter and carries a large and carefully selected stock of the finest goods on the market and his customers are among the most particular and fastidious men of the city. Mr. Leak enjoys the distinction of having it said of him that a customer once gained is never lost.

Mr. Leak was married at \\'ausau, Wisconsin, to Miss Ida Arendsee, of this city, and they have one son, Louis C, Jr. He is identified with a number of fraternal organizations, including the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum and the Independent Order of Foresters, and for twenty-two years has belonged to the German body, the Liederkranz.

ways claimed Wausau as his home, for he was born here, May 6, 1873, although business responsibihties have demanded his absence for protracted periods. His parents, August W. and Johanna (Lueck) Marquardt, were born in Germany and came to this section in 1868, settHng in the village of Wausau, later securing farming land in close proximity, in town of Wausau, Marathon county, so that it was possible to there carry on agricultural operations and still maintain the home at Wausau. Here his death occurred June 14, 1909, his widow still surviving.

Herman E. Marquardt attended the public schools and graduated from the Wausau High School in the class of 1891, and then entered the law office of A. L. Kreutzer, with the intention of studying for that profession. He continued his studies there for two months when a more attractive proposition presented itself and he entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in its construction department and during the following two years traveled over Wisconsin, Idaho and A\'ashington. The succeeding two years he spent at Duluth, where he had charge of the business there relating to the lines, batteries and other necessary working paraphernalia, and filled the same position at Superior, from 1894 until 1896, and from the latter year until 1905 he was in the inspection service, having jurisdiction over Wisconsin, Northern Iowa, Minnesota, Upper Michigan, North and South Dakota and a part of Montana, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn., for thirteen consecutive years belonging to the same department, resigning March i, 1905, and for one year was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Although Mr. Marquardt retained his headquarters at Minneapolis, he returned to his native city January 18, 1900. In April, 1906, he was first elected to his present office, the first favor he had ever accepted from the Republican party, of which he had been a loyal member for many years.

In 1897 Mr. ]\Iarquardt was married to Miss Emma Rollenhagen of \\'ausau and they have two children: Gladys E., who is a student in the Wausau High School ; and Milton A. Mr. Marquardt has considerable prominence in the fraternal orders of Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen, being a trustee of the former in this city, and a member of the board of managers of the latter; being also a member of the Commercial Club and the Y. M. C. A.

years having been connected with milling interests here and is vice president and superintendent of the H. E. McEachron Company, whose great mills are located on Clarke's Island, Wausau, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 9, 1862, and is a son of John George and Mary (Scheck) Pfeiffer.

When George Pfeiffer was about thirteen years of age his father, who by trade was a wagon maker, moved with his family to Monroe, Wisconsin, and two years later bought a small flour mill there and the son worked in his father's mill for four years. He then went to Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and was employed there in a flour mill for two years, returning then to his father's mill for a year, when he came to Wausau and in January, 1884, entered the employ of his present company as a miller. At that time the mills were considered very prosperous, the output being about ninety barrels of flour daily, but compared with the present output of over 800 barrels a day, the former volume of business seems very small. At first Mr. Pfeiffer worked as assistant miller but in 1891 took charge as head miller and superintendent and when the company was incorporated became also vice president. Mr. Pfeiffer confines his attention, in a business way, to this concern and his duties are so numerous and important that he is fully occupied.

At Tomahawk, Wisconsin, in 1889, Mr. Pfeiffer was married to Miss Mary Oelhafen. and they have one daughter, Marian, who was born in 1903. They belong to the Presbyterian church. He has never been very active in political life and his only fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias.

H. A. VEDDER, M. D., physician and surgeon at Edgar, Wisconsin, is a native of this state, born in Walworth county, November i, 1878. After completing the public school course and graduating from the High School at Marshfield, Wisconsin, he entered the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, where he was graduated in the class of 1905. Dr. Vedder located immediately at Edgar, selecting his present suite of office space in the Dapratto Building. He has built up a practice that extends three miles east of the village, fourteen miles south, nine miles west, and seven miles north. Additionally he is examining physician for a number of the leading insurance companies. He keeps well informed concerning scientific progress through membership in the Marathon county, the Wisconsin State and the American Medical Associations.

Dr. Vedder married Miss Mary Wilson, who is a daughter of Rev. Wilson, formerly a Presbyterian minister at Wausau, now of Reedsburg, Wisconsin. They have three children : Janette, Lillian and Harry. Dr. Vedder confines himself closely to his profession but, when occasion arises, takes a good citizen's part in public matters.

WILLIAM R. CHELLIS, a representative business man of Wausau, Wis., who conducts a real estate business, including loans and investments, with office at No. 310 Scott street, is a prominent ctizen of Marathon county who has ser\-ed with efficiency in public office and is a recognized factor in Republican politics. Of New England ancestry, he was born in Grafton county, N. H., August 18, 1869, a son of Sumner and Emma Chellis, having only one brother, Herbert, a twin sister having been scalded to death at the age of six months, his parents being also of New England birth and rearing. When the Civil War broke out Sumner Chellis, at the age of fifteen years, enlisted for service in one of the early New Hampshire regiments. In 1873 he came with his family to Green County, Wis., and in 1881 to Wausau, where he died at the early age of thirty-seven years.

William R. Chellis was eleven years old when his parents came to Wausay and was not much older when he lost his father. He went to school until he was old enough to be useful on a farm and from school went to the lumber regions where he took part in the rough work of saw milling and logging, promoting his health and gaining muscle and taking pleasure also in the rough life, hard as it was. It was while working in the saw mills at Wausau, where he had learned the saw-filing trade, that, in August, 1893, a serious strike was called under his leadership on account of existing conditions that involved all the lumber and factory workers, the contention being on account of the long period of working time required by the employers. The strike was soon settled, and Mr. Chellis has the satisfaction of knowing that through his efiforts and diplomacy, the working hours of the day since then have been ten instead of eleven hours, which proved beneficial to all concerned.

Mr. Chellis represented the ward in which he lived as alderman for two terms, resigning to accept a position on the police force, where he sensed for six months as a patrolman and when the office of captain was created he received the appointment and serv-ed as such for a year and a half, subsequently being appointed under-sherifY. After ser\-ing two years in the latter capacity he was elected sherifif of Marathon county and held the office for two years, administering it to the satisfaction of all except law breakers. Then for six years

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Mr. Chellis married Miss Ethel Sampson, a daughter of Frank and Rowena Sampson, of Wausau, and they have one child, a daughter, Edna. Mr. Chellis belonged to the Wisconsin National Guards for four years, serving as corporal. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Eagles, and Equitable Fraternal Union, orders of which he is very proud. He is a member of the Marathon County Building- Loan and Investment Association and is on its board of trustees, and is on the appraisal board. He is also one of the trustees of the Marathon County Agriculture Society.

Mr. Chellis is one of the men that believe in giving a hearty welcome to all and a good word of praise for his friends, which is enjoyed by all who know him. The rich and poor are one to him. His watch w-ord is forward and upward.

OLAI BACHE-WIIG, a mechanical engineer, who is superintendent of the Wausau Sulphate Fibre Company, at Mosinee, Wisconsin, and one of its stockholders, was born in Norway, June 3, 1876, and is a son of Hartvig and Amalie Bache-Wiig. Neither of the parents and only two of the ten children ever came to America, these being Olai and Jens, the latter being in the employ of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, at Pittsburgh, Pa., as an electrical engineer.

Olai Bache-Wiig attended school in his native land, studied mechanical engineering in Germany, and, returning to Norway, engaged in pulp and paper mill engineering. He came to the United States in 1903, carrying on the same kind of work here and in Canada. In 1910 he was engaged by Wausau capitalists to design and build the pulp and paper mills of the Wausau Sulphate Fibre Company, located at Mosinee, Wis.

In February, 1912, Mr. Bache-Wiig was married to Miss Agnes Ravn, who was born at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, a daughter of Dr. Michael and Valborg Ravn. Mrs. Bache-Wiig's father conducts a private hospital in Merrill, Wisconsin. His family consists of four children : Bjarne, Agnes, Signe and Erling. Mr. and Mrs. Bache-Wiig have one son, Lars Ravn. They are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Bache-Wiig is a Republican in polities but is not a close party man.

CHARLES A. BERNIER, owner and proprietor of a general store at Mosinee, Wisconsin, has been more or less identified with merchandising all his business life. He was born at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, May ID, 1861, and is a son of Louis Alexander and Clementine (Blanchette) Bernier. His parents were natives of Canada and his father followed lumbering. He is one of the following family of children, all of whom survive except the second born : Arminigile, Zellier, Charles A., Delvine, Frank, Laura, Louis A. and Mary.

Charles- A. Bernier attended first the public school and then became a pupil of the Howe School at Grand Rapids, after which he was a clerk in a general store in that city for four years. He came then to Mosinee and for fourteen more years was connected ^with mercantile firms, when he became associated in business with Hon. Willis F. La Du, and for twenty years their continued their mercantile partnership and are still connected in their real estate enterprises.

In 1884 Mr. Bernier was married to Miss Maggie Keefe, who was born in West Virginia, a daughter of John Keefe, who engaged in farming near Mosinee after coming to Marathon county. Mr. and Mrs. Bernier have three children : Charles A., Willis Owen, and Eva, who is assistant superintendent of the schools of Marathon county. They are members of the Catholic church and Mr. Bernier belongs to the Knights of Columbus and to the Catholic Order of Foresters. In politics he is a Democrat.

GUSTAV GRUNEWALD, who has many important business interests and owns considerable valuable property at Athens, Wisconsin, is one of the well know men of Marathon county and for the past thirty-one years has been a resident of Athens. He was born June I, 1863, in Germany, and is a son of August and Louise (Huhn) Grunewald. The parents of Mr. Grunewald remained in Germany until 1885, the father working at his trade of blacksmith. Both parents are now deceased but their children all survive, as follows: Gustav, Herman, who still lives in Germany ; Tena, who is the wife of Edward Brant ; Bertha, who is the wife of Carl Ratz ; and Frank.

Gustav Grunewald remained in his native land until he was nineteen years of age, attending school as does every German boy, and learning the blacksmith trade with his father. In 1882 he came to the United States and for one year lived at Wausau, Wisconsin, from there moved to Hatley but very soon afterward settled permanently at Athens. Here he has continued ever since and through industry and good judgment has built up prosperous business enterprises and has become a leading man of the place. He owns a blacksmith shop and a wagon and sleigh shop, both manufacturing and repairing, and gives several men employment all the year round. He also owns a general store, a fine residence that he occupies and another that he rents out, and has two business blocks, together with stock in some local concerns. He has also been active in public affairs and was elected town treasurer on the democratic ticket and for thirteen years served also as school treasurer. In every position of trust and responsibility he has shown himself a man of capacity and integrity.

Mr. Grunewald was married first to Miss Josephine Lepack, who died in 1900, the mother of the following children : Anna, wife of Walter Clotere, Frances, Henry, John, George, deceased, Margaret and Frank. In 1901 Mr. Grunewald was married (second) to Mrs. Alverna Jones, widow of Edward Jones and mother of four children : Caroline, wife of George Fulmer ; Agnes, wife of William Hanson ; Ethel, a teacher in the public schools; and Elmer. Mr. Grunewald is a member of the German Lutheran Church. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and attends the lodge at Athens.

JOSEPH LANG, JR., one of the leading citizens of the town of Cassel, resides in section 21, five miles southwest of Marathon City, owning 159 acres of excellent land lying in sections 21 and 17, Cassel. He was born at Neilsville, Wis., October 9, 1886, and is a son of John and Mary Waldkirch, and was left an orphan when six months old. At the age of five years he was adopted by Andrew and Benedicta (Bauman) Lang, who were early settlers in the town of Cassel. These good people reared the orphan child as their own and gave him their name, one on which he has always reflected credit.

Joseph Lang obtained his education in the district schools in the town of Cassel and the parochial school at Marathon City. He grew up a farmer and has always resided in Marathon county except during one year, when he traveled in the West. After his return he was married in the town of Cassel to Miss Matilda Lang, a daughter of Emil and Martha Lang, Emil and Andrew Lang being brothers and both fine men. After marriage the young people settled on the present farm which was already improved. They have one child, Emil, who is yet an infant. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church. In politics

Mr. Lang is a Republican and takes an interest in public matters and commands public confidence to such a degree that in 1912 his fellovv citizens elected him town assessor. He is a stockholder in the Cassel- Edgar-Emert Telephone Company.

JOHN SEUBERT. There are many wealthy and prominent men in Wisconsin and Marathon county has its full quota, and the larger number of these have built up their fortunes through industry and good judgment in their lumber and agricultural operations. One of the well known men of the town of Cassel, Marathon county, residing in section 9, four and one-half miles west of Marathon City, owns 650 acres of valuable land, on which stands the finest rural residence in the entire county. He was born in Washington county, Wisconsin, April 15, 1855, a son of Nicholas and Margaret Seubert. The father died when John was nine years old, leaving a family of six sons and four daughters.

The early years of Mr. Seubert were more or less toilsome for the family was large and a living had to be made out of the home farm and he worked for neighboring farmers, getting a very small amount of schooling in the meanwhile, and spent many winters in the logging camps in the woods. In 1882. near Marshfield, Wis., he bought eighty acres of land, made a clearing there and built a house. His next purchase was of eighty acres two miles north of his first farm, in the town of Spencer, Marathon county, cleared sixty acres of it, remodeled the house and built a barn. During some seven years while owning that place he engaged in logging in the winters in Ashland county for Henry Sherry, devoting his summers to farming. After he sold that place he moved to Marathon City where he went into a general store business under the firm name of Miller, Ritger & Seubert, and during the succeeding ten years he was a buyer of lumber and the other members of the firm carried on the store, all having their capital involved. Mr. Seubert then sold his interest there and in the spring of 1901 bought his present farm, which was then all woods and so dense that he had to cut a road for two miles in order to reach his property. He built a log house there and since then improvements have followed swiftly. He has 288 acres cleared, 170 acres of which he calls hay land and he carries on all his large agricultural operations himself, with the assistance of his sons. In November, 1901, the present handsome modern residence of fourteen rooms was completed, in which has been installed city comforts including a system of hot water heating.

On May i6, 1882, Mr. Seubert was married to Miss Frances Bayer, who was born at Menasha, Wis., a daughter of George and Katie (Waltdrap) Bayer, who were born in Germany. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Seubert : Johanna, who is the wife of Jacob Martin; Clara, who is the wife of Fred Misoll, residing in Idaho; Peter, who was born at Marshfield; Gust, who was born after the family moved to Marathon City, where all the remaining children were born : Madaline, Mathilda, Frances, Agatha and Aloysius. Mr. Seubert and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic church, to the building of which he was a liberal contributor. He is a Democrat but his business interests have always so engaged his time that he never felt free to accept public ofifice. He is a stockholder in the State Bank of Marathon City; is interested also in the local telephone company, and in the Seubert Harskin Land Company, the Colby Southern Land Company and the Wausau Southern Land Company. He is identified fraternally with the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin and the Foresters.

MATHEW WAGNER, who is one of the substantial and representative men of the town of Cassel, of which he has been supervisor for the last four years, resides in section 14, where he owns 120 acres of valuable land, situated three miles southwest of Marathon City. He was born in Dodge county. W'is., December 25, 1867, and is a son of John M. and Catherine Wagner, the former of whom lives on the above mentioned farm. The mother of Mr. Wagner was. born in Germany in 1826 and came to America in 1864 and in December of that year was married to John M. Wagner, at Chicago, 111., after which they moved to Dodge county. Wis. She died December 31, 191 1, at the age of eighty-six and her burial was in the Catholic cemetery at Marathon City.

Mathew Wagner has three brothers : John, who has been a widower some eight years and has three children, follows the trade of scaling and working in the woods, and makes his home in the town of Cassel; Peter, who lives in Edgar and also follows lumber scaling and works in the mills, is married and has six children ; and Nick, who lives in Canada, is a thresher.

Mathew Wagner attended the public schools until about twelve years of age when the family came to Marathon county and since then his activities have been farming, threshing and work in the woods. For twenty-three years he followed threshing during the season, worked at lumbering and in saw mills in the winter time and on farms as opportunity offered. During the last three winters he has been engaged in log scaling, for two years being with the Wausau Lumber Company at Rib Falls and one year at Marathon City for Philip Menzner. He carries on general farming on his seventy acres of cleared land, the rest being in timber. Mr. Wagner is considered a man of excellent judgment in the management of his own affairs and as reliable and trustworthy as a public official. He has been a Democrat in politics since he cast his first vote.

Mr. Wagner was married to Miss ]\Iary J. Kohler, who was born in Elmore, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, June 4, 1866, a daughter of Joseph Kohler and his first wife, the latter of whom was born in Switzerland, was married in Germany, where Mr. Kohler was born. They came to America in the year 1865 and settled in Fond du Lac county, Wis. They had three children: Mary, Annie and Joseph. The mother of Mrs. Wagner died when she was nine years old and afterward the father married Catherine Kastel, who was also born in Germany, and thev had the following children: Katie, who married a Mr. Imhoff; Maggie, who is the wife of Anton Vebelacker ; Susanna, who is the wife of William Kutchenreter : Grace, who is the wife of August Kutchenreter, and Rose, who is the wife of Herman Kutchenreter. The mother of the above children died in her forty-third year and her burial was in St. Mary's cemetery. The father was a wagonmaker by trade but later became a farmer and a pioneer in the town of Cassel, Marathon county, where he died, November 2},, 1912, when aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Wagner attended the public and parochial schools at Elmore and New Castle, Wis., and was twelve years old when her parents came to Marathon county. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have the following children: Raymond P., Gertrude K., Andrew N., Thaddeus J., Mathew J., and Robert W. The family belongs to St. Mary's Catholic church, and Mr. Wagner belongs to the St. Leo Court, No. 795, Catholic Order of Foresters, and Germania Lodge, No. 44. He served efficiently as supervisor in 1899.

CARL G. KRL'EGER, whose important business interests are mainly centered at ^^'ausau, \\'is., where he is assistant cashier of the First National Bank, is a native son of Marathon county. He was born January 15, 1873, on a farm in the town of Stettin, Marathon county. Wis., and is the son of A. W. and Wilhelmina Krueger.

A. W. and Wilhelmina Krueger were both born in Germany and for a number of years after coming to Wisconsin, the father carried on farming in Marathon county, when failing health caused him to change his mode of life. He then came to Wausau and for some years afterward successfully conducted a general store in this city, but now lives retired.

Carl G. Krueger was reared at Wausau and here attended the public and parochial schools, and helping his father in his business. At the age of eighteen he went to Milwaukee where he entered the employ of Wm. Steinmeyer Co., wholesale and retail grocers. But Mr. Krueger had an ambition ; he was looking for things beyond. After leaving school at the age of fourteen he did not feel that he had had sufificient learning, but employed his evenings attending the public night school during the winter season. After a year's satisfactory service for Steinmeyer & Company, he entered the Spencerian Business College at Milwaukee, completing the course in the year 1893. In March, 1894, he entered the service of the First National Bank of Wausau, as a junior clerk and collector, and he has been advanced step by step, according to bank custom, until he became assistant cashier.

He is prominently identified with other business interests in Wusau and is president of the Northern Milling Company, which is operating with a capital stock of $100,000. Mr. Krueger is well known all over the county and is recognized as an able and trustworthy business man. Because of his great faith in the future possibilities of Wausau and Marathon county he has taken an active interest in the development of its resources, especially has he been interested in getting the young men to become a success and help to this community. For the past fifteen years he has been a director and treasurer of the Wausau Y. M. C. A., and since its organization has been a member of the Wausau Board of Industrial Education.

In early manhood Mr. Krueger was married to Miss Frances Hooker, of West Salem, Wis., who was born at New Orleans, La. They have four children ; Gretchen, Rhoda, Richard and William.

JULIUS H. KEIL, capitalist, is one of the largest property owners at Wausau, Wis., and is one of the city's best known men. Not only is Captain Keil prominent in business affairs, especially in improved real estate, but has honorable military standing as well. He is a member of the Council of Honor of the Central Union of the German

Veterans and Soldiers' Federation of North America, and second vice president of all the German Veteran Associations in the state of Wisconsin, the members of these bodies all having formerly been soldiers in the German army. Captain Keil was born in Germany, February 28, 1855, and is a son of Frederick and Rosa Keil. The father was a military man all his life and won many honors.

Julius H. Keil was reared and educated in his native land and when twenty years of age entered the army in which he served with credit for three years. By trade he is a dyer and after his army service was over he engaged at work in the line of his trade until 1880, when he crossed the Atlantic ocean and visited in New York for six weeks. Finding his expenses heavier than he had anticipated he returned then to Germany but his impressions of the country and people had been so favorable that in 1886 he came back to America. Shortly afterward he became foreman of large dye works in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., where he remained for eight months, then spent a short period in Cincinnati and afterward came on to Milwaukee, \\'is. In that city he became foreman for the Northwestern Woolen Mill Company and continued such for one year and then came to Wausau. Here he purchased a property opposite the Northwestern Railroad depot and conducted dye works there for eighteen years. In the meanwhile he had been purchasing property and improving it in different parts of the city, both on the East and West sides and now occupies his handsome residence on Sherman street, West side, and also owns all the resident buildings between Third and Fifth avenues. South, having built them all. He also built the \\'est side Roller Skating Rink. He devotes much of his time to looking after his numerous properties and many investments. His position in connection with the German Veterans Association is one of such honor that when he visited Germany in ]May. 1910, where he remained for eleven weeks, he was the guest of royalty and great consideration was shown him. He travels over many sections of the United States on lecture tours, largely in connection with the military organization in which he is so interested.

On November 28, 1890. Captain Keil was united in marriage with Miss Emma Eschman, who was born in Switzerland, and they have three children : Freda, Rosa and Helen. He is identified with the fraternal organization known as the Eagles and belongs also to the Royal Arcanum. Wausau owes much to Mr. Keil's public spirit in the way of material development and his improvement of property here has un-

W. F. BIELKE, justice of the peace and general merchant at Zeigler, Wis., was born in the town of Berlin, May ii, 1865, and is a son of Henry and Augusta (Neumann) Bielkea, who were natives of Germany and among the first settlers of the town of Berlin. They had three sons and two daughters. The father died when his son, W. F., was seventeen years of age and was buried in the Lutheran cemetery in the town of Berlin.

W. F. Bielke attended the public schools in his native town and then worked on a farm until he embarked in the mercantile business, first at Naugart, where he continued for six years and then sold to A. J. Fehlhaber, after whch he bought the stock and good will of George W. Zeigler, at his present place. For the entire time he was engaged at Naugart, Mr. Bielke was postmaster there and was appointed postmaster of this village and continued until the office was discontinued here. He is a stockholder in the Marathon-Zeigler telephone line, in the Marathon City Brewing Company, the George Ruder Brewing Company, and the City State Bank at Wausau, and is a member of the Berlin Fire and Lightning Insurance Company. He has served in a number of local offices, being justice of the peace a;id town and school clerk.

In 1890 Mr. Bielke was married to Miss Mary Crochiere, a daughter of Peter Crochiere, of Stettin, and they have five children: Ervin, Viola, Walter, Mildred and Delora. The family belong to the Lutheran church.

- CLAIRE BRAYTON BIRD, attorney at law, and member of the firm of Kreutzer, Bird, Rosenberry & Okoneski, was born at Jefferson, Jefferson county. Wis., October 27, 1868. His ancestry on both sides were pioneers in the very earliest settlement and building of the state.

His paternal grandfather, Col. A. A. Bird, was employed to lay out the site of the city of Madison, and to build the first capitol building, when that location was chosen for the capitol site of the state. He started with a party of forty men from Milwaukee, went through the forests to the four lakes, building his own roads and bridges, platted and laid out the city of Madison, built the first capitol building, the first court house, hotel, depot, south building of the University, and other buildings. He was also sheriff of Dane county, and mayor of Madison. As soon as the capital city site was established and sufficient housings for the family prepared, the eldest Colonel Bird removed his family from Milwaukee to that city. There his son Col. George W. Bird grew up, went through the shools, including the University ; studied law, enlisted in the army, after which he practiced law at Jefferson, where his children were born. He removed back to Madison in 1886, and there practiced law until his death October i, 1912. He was well known throughout the entire state as a leading Democrat, and one of its best lawyers.

On his mother's side, his great-grandfather, Jeremiah Brayton, moved into the Rock River Valley and established a small colony of original homesteaders. His daughter, Louise Brayton, was the first school teacher in Dane county. She subsequently married George Swain, who died in middle manhood leaving two children, a son and a daughter. The son, then the sole support of the mother and daughter, enlisted in the 29th Wisconsin, and gave up his life in the Vicksburg campaign. The daughter married Col. George \V. Bird. They had five children of whom three are living, to wit: Claire Brayton Bird, Hobert S. Bird, a lawyer in New York City, and Louise B. Warren, the wife of a Chicago architect.

Claire Brayton Bird was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, in the collegiate class of 1889 and the law class of 1891. In 1892 he came to Wausau, became the junior member of the firm of Mylrea, Marchetti & Bird, which firm terminated in 1900, when it was succeeded by his present firm.. On June 20, 1892, he was married to Miss Laura Eaton of Muscatine, Iowa. They have two children : Marie, now a student at Downer College, Milwaukee; and George, student at Lake Forest Academy. He is prominently identified with the Masons (of which Lodge he is now Master), the Elks (of which he has twice been Ruler) and other fraternal societies.

He has devoted himself during his twenty years residence here, almost exclusively to the practice of law. ^\'hile he has taken advantage of the financial opportunities resulting from the growth of northern Wisconsin, so as to acquire for himself a substantial competence, yet he has never allowed the matter of outside investments or such other distractions to divert his attention from his main purpose and business of practicing law in this community. He is considered one of the most effective lawyers in argument of legal propositions to the court as well as able advocates before a jury that we have had in Wausau. Aside from court practice, (which is getting to be less and less important in the work of a lawyer) he is also considered a very wise and safe counsellor upon whose opinion of the law and advice as to policy, clients are accustomed to rely with safety.

Mr. Bird has taken an active interest in the welfare of the Baptist church of this city, being what may properly be called a Liberal Baptist. He has also been active in politics though not seeking office. Of late years he has affiliated with the Republican party, but has always been independent and outspoken in his views and has never been a partisan of either wing.

OSCAR LOUIS RINGLE, who is a well known member of the Wausau bar and the junior of the well known law firm of Regner & Ringle, was born at Wausau, Wis., April 12, 1878, and is a son of Hon. John and Augusta (Engle) Ringle.

Hon. John Ringle is mayor of the city of Wausau and is one of the city's capitalists and is vice president of the First National Bank of Wausau. His people came early to Dodge county, Wis., and there he was born and mainly reared. He married Augusta Engle, who was born in Germany, and nine children were born to them. Oscar Louis being fourth in the order of birth.

Oscar L. Ringle was reared in his native city and has made his home here all his life. After he completed the public school course he entered the University of Wisconsin and was graduated there in law in the class of 1901, immediately entering upon the practice of his profession. In 1902 he formed a law partnership with Frank R. Regner under the style of Regner & Ringle, which has ever since continued. Mr. Ringle is a member of the Marathon County Bar Association, and fraternally is identified with the Masons and the Elks. Politically he is a Democrat, and was elected a member of the assembly of the Wisconsin Legislature, from the 2nd District of Marathon county at the general election in November, 1912.

Mr. Ringle married Miss Clara Baesman, a daughter of G. H. Baesman, of Wausau, and they have one daughter, Dorothea. Mr. Ringle and family belong to St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church.

THOMAS C. RYAN, deceased, who, for many years was closely identified with the people and affairs of Wausau but had a circle of acquaintanceship which included the state, was born at Utica, N. Y., July 4, 1841, and died at Wausau, December 10, 191 1.

The parents of Thomas Curran Ryan died during his childhood and he was reared on a farm in the town of Hemingford, Lower Canada. His natural ambition for an education was encouraged, fortunately, both his grandfather and his uncle, James Ryan, willingly giving him all the opportunities in their power but in that newly settled country the schools ofifered but few advantages. He was gifted with a quick intelligence and had a real genius for mathematics. In the fall of 1853, with his older brother, John Ryan, he came to Wisconsin where the youths found work on farms but later both learned the shoemaking trade at which Thomas C. worked during the winters until 1861 and as a farmer during the summers. The brothers became soldiers when the Civil War opened, both serving from 1861 until 1863 as privates, in Company G, 5th Wis. Vol. Inf., and all his spare time the younger brother devoted to study, thereby gaining a fair knowledge of Latin, German and French. Three times he was wounded, the last injury being of so serious a nature that it resulted in his honorable discharge from the service and he then returned to his former home, Berlin, Wis. His capital was $350, and with this sum to depend upon he began his struggle for a law education, becoming a student in the office of Truesdall & Waring, at Berlin, and in the fall of 1865 was admitted to the bar at Dartford, in Green Lake county. After a term of school teaching, which added slightly to his now depleted resources, he opened his office at Berlin and his successful career as a lawyer began. He was thrice elected district attorney and then county judge, afterward being admitted as an equal partner of Hon. George D. Waring. In 1881 he moved to Wausau and became a law partner of Neal Brown, in 1882 moving to Merrill where he soon afterward formed a law partnership with George Curtis, Jr., the beginning of the present firm of Curtis, Van Doren & Curtis. In December, 1883, Mr. Ryan returned to Wausau and became a partner with Silverthorn & Hurley, under the firm name of Silverthorn, Hurley & Ryan. Mr. Jones was admitted to the firm in 1886 and the firm name then became Silverthorn, Hurley, Ryan & Jones, which name continued until eleven years later when Mr. Silverthorn went on the bench, when the firm style then becoming Ryan, Hurley & Jones. In August, 1903, Mr. Ryan retired from the firm and during the following two years sought health in travel and at one time purchased a home in the South but never settled there permanently, his affections being centered in A\'isconsin. In his later years he devoted a large part of his time to literary pursuits. He was a keen and daring thinker and had a wide range of subjects. His satire on the appellate courts, entitled "O'Hooligan's Fine Forms" had a large circulation and the publishers are about to issue a second .edition. His second book, "Finite and Infinite," has sold well and his writings and theories on astronomy brought him into touch with the great astronomers of the world. His latest work, "Intellectual Religion" which has just been published is a lawyer's arrangement of the evidence in support of the case for immortality and has created considerable favorable comment.

THOAIAS H. RYAN, a well known member of the bar at Wausau and a member of the law firm of Ryan & Sweet, with oflfices in the First National Bank Building, was born at Berlin, in Green Lake county. Wis., September 3, 1876, and is a son of Thomas C. and Emma E. (Thurston) Ryan.

In 1881 Thomas H. Ryan accompanied his parents to Wausau, and his mother still resides here, his father having died some years after locating here. He was educated in the public schools and at St. John's Military Academy and his military training was brought into play during the Spanish-American War; he enlisted as a member of Company K, 4th Wis. Vol. Inf., recruited at Washburne, Wis., and later served as principal musician ; this regiment being held at Anniston, Ala. After he returned to his home he entered the law department in the University of Wisconsin, where he was graduated in the spring of 1901 and was admitted to the bar at Madison. He entered into practice at Merrill, Wis., at first alone and later as senior of the firm of Ryan & Runke, and for several years while living at Merrill was president of the board of education and also was president of the Lincoln county training school board, was treasurer of Lincoln Farm & Timber Co., a director in other corporations and took an active part in the business and social life of the city.

In 1904 Mr. Ryan was married to Miss Mollie V. Murray, a daughter of D. J. Murray, of Wausau, and they have one daughter, Ellen Murray Ryan. Mr. Ryan is a prominent factor in Democratic circles, is a member of the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee and was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1912 where he took an irriportant part in the efiforts to secure the nomination of President Wilson. He was manager of the Democratic presidential campaign in northern Wisconsin in the election following and assisted greatly in obtain-

L. H. MOLL, dealer in dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats, groceries, flour and feed, at Edgar, Wis., was born November i8, 1864, in Austria- Germany, and came to America when two years old, brought by his parents, Jacob and Anna Mary Moll. They settled at West Bend in Washington county, Wis., where the father was a farmer. He died at Stevens Point when aged forty-six years, his widow surviving to her seventy-fourth year.

L. H. Moll attended school at West Bend and Stevens Point. He started to work as driver of a team and afterward as chore boy in a hotel, then became a clerk in a store and in 1908 went into business for himself in the village of Rosholt in Wisconsin and from there, July 22, 19 1 2, came to Edgar and purchased his present business from C. E. Blodgett, of Marshfield. Mr. Moll married Miss Helena Jacobs, a native of Portage county, Wis.

REV. PETER L. GASPER, pastor of St. Mary's church, Wausau, Wis., is a native of Prussia, born May 16, 1850, in Schoenecker, Kreis Pruem, Reg. Bez. Treves, a son of Peter and Catherine (Lochen) Gasper, also natives of Prussia. They were the parents of six children all deceased except the oldest, Henry, still living in Prussia, and the youngest, Peter L., the subject of this biography. The father who was a locksmith by trade, died in 1851, the mother in 1859.

Father Gasper recived his elementary education in the parochial school of his native village, afterward learning the trade of locksmith with his elder brothers. In 1869 he came to the United States, and for about a year worked at his trade at Pittsburgh, Penn., at the end of which time he entered St. Vincent's College, Westmoreland county, Penn., where he commenced studying for the priesthood. He remained in that institution until the year 1878, when he went to St. Francis Seminary near Milwaukee, Wis., where he completed his studies and was ordained priest in 1880, by the late Rt. Rev. Bishop Heiss. Our subject's first charge was as .assistant priest in the cathedral at Green Bay, Wis., where he remained seven months, then for a time assisted Rev. Father Gaellweiler, at Chilton, Wis., after which he was transferred to Jericho, Calumet Co. Wis., where he had charge of St. Trinity Congregation for two years and where he erected a new church building. In 1883 he was again transferred; this time to Lebanon township, Waupaca Co., his stay there covering a period of six years, during which time he not onlyattended to the spiritual welfare of the Catholic people of Northport, Manawa, W^eyamvega and of course Lebanon but also made numerous improvements in the church edifices in those localities. In 1889 he was transferred to New London, Wis., where he erected the handsome and commodious church of the Most Precious Blood, the cornerstone of which was laid June 24, 1890, by Rt. Rev. Fred Katzer, bishop of Green Bay, and consecrated to the worship of God, February 12, 1891. It is a large and imposing edifice of solid brick 126x52 feet with a bell tower 140 feet high. During his administration in New London, Father Gasper also erected a fine church in Hortonville, the building of which was commenced in 1893 and dedicated with imposing ceremonies by Rt. Rev. Seb. Messmer, June 18, 1893.

In August, 1894, he was appointed rector of St. Mary's church. \\^ausau. Wis., his present charge which at that time consisted of about 400 families. In 1895 Rt. Rev. Bishop Messmer made him dean for the counties of Lincoln, Marathon, Portage and Wood as far as they were situated within the limits of the Diocese of Green Bay. He found his new congregation encumbered with a heavy mortgage and paying 6% interest, which he at once converted into bonds bearing only 4% and this enabled him to lessen the debts continually. In 1898 he built the beautiful home for the School Sisters, who up to this time had lived in the school-house. Great improvements were made in the school-house and new school rooms opened: a pipe organ for the church was also bought during the course of this year.

In 1902 the church was decorated very beautifully and equipped with gas and electric light. In 1904 the present parsonage, a large and commodious brick building, costing $8,000 was erected and a steamheating plant for church and school installed and other improvements made which raised the indebtedness again to $8,500 but which was lessened every year until 191 1 when all was liquidated. In 1912 a new pipe organ costing $3,050 was installed in the church and paid for, still leaving almost $1,000 in the treasury of the congregation.

In the vear 1906 when the limits of the dioceses were changed Marathon Co. was annexed to the diocese of Lacrosse and consequently with it St. ]\Iary"s congregation with its pastor. In the same year a large number of families separated and formed the new St. James Congregation with Rev. J. J. Brennan as its first rector. On account of this sepa- ration the number of families was considerably decreased but Wausau being a thriving city both congregations are as large now as St. Mary's was before the separation and are continually growing. The number of pupils in school is over 400 with nine Sisters of Notre Dame as their teachers.

LOUIS H. COOK, county clerk of Marathon county, who assumed the duties of ofifice on the first Monday in January, 19 13, is well known all over Marathon county, to which he was brought when two years old. He was bom on a farm in Calumet county, Wis., November 25, 1876, and is a son of Alfred and Amanda (Blood) Cook. The father was a farmer and moved to Marathon county in 1874 and then moved to Calumet county, but in 1878 returned to Marathon county and settled near Unity.

Louis H. Cook attended school at Unity, Wis., and when he reached manhood went into journalism, establishing the Marathon County Register, which he published at Lenity for nine years. He tlien sold to E. L. Messer who still conducts it. In politics he has always l)een a Republican and has been very active in county politics and was only twenty years of age when he was elected a justice of the peace, afterward serving in other offices, for six years being supervisor of the town of Unity. To some extent Mr. Cook has been interested in agricultural matters and the raising of livestock and poultry. He is secretary of the Central Wisconsin Poultry Association, both secretary and treasurer of the Wisconsin branch of the American Poultry Association, and is a director of the Marathon County Agricultural Society.

In 1898 Mr. Cook married Miss Efifie J. Du Cate, a daughter of Moses H. Du Cate, a jeweler and photographer at LTnity, Wis., and they have four children: Neal J-. Russell H., Margaret and .\nola. Air. Cook is interested in and identified with many of the leading fraternal organizations, including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the M. W. A., the E. F. U. and the F. O. E.

HENRY H. ZAUN, M. D., physician and surgeon at Edgar, Wis., was born near Richfield, Washington county, Wis., January 2, 1862, a son of L. Henry and Pauline (Beyer) Zaun, who live at Jackson, Washington county. Wis. Henry H. Zaun attended the public schools in Washington county and the Oshkosh Normal School, after which he taught school for five years in his native county and then entered the Northwestern University at Chicago, 111., where he was graduated in medicine with the class of 1891. He returned to Washington county and practiced there for fifteen years, coming to Edgar in September, 1909, where he has remained. In politics Dr. Zaun is independent. He married Miss Hulda Lowe, a daughter of the late John Lowe, of Washington county, and they have two children: Almira and Harvey. Dr. and Mrs. Zaun belong to the Lutheran church.

SAMUEL M. QUAW, president of the Citizens State Bank of Wausau. Wis., who has been at the head of this institution since it was organized in 1908. has been a resident of this city for forty years and his interests here are numerous and important. He was born in Alleghany county, N. Y., March i, 1839, and is a son of Henry and Jane (McGibney) Quaw.

Samuel M. Quaw was reared on the home farm, in the meanwhile attending the district schools as he had opportunity, and when he was eighteen years of age he accompanied his parents to Adams county, Wis. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, nth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and continued in service until he was honorobly discharged at Madison, Wis., in January, 1865. The nth Wisconsin formed a part of the army of Missouri and Arkansas - the Western Division - and took an active part in many memorable battles and campaigns. After participating in the siege of Vicksburg and the second battle at Jackson, Miss., it was ordered back to Vicksburg and then to New Orleans, where one winter was passed, after which it was a part of the force under General Banks in the Red River Campaign. While never wounded or captured, Mr. Quaw did not escape all the perils of a soldier's life, being taken sick in April, 1864, and confined to a hospital in New Orleans until the following September, a most unpleasant experience, as an army hospital at that time was a dreadful place.

After his military service was over Mr. Quaw returned to Adams county. Wis., and after regaining his health entered into a flour mill business in partnership with others. In 1867 he sold his interest in this business and went to Iowa, where he was engaged in farming until January, 1873. Then returning to Wisconsin, he located in Wausau, of which city he has since remained a resident, having here important business interests. For a number of years he was extensively engaged in the lumber industry and is yet president of the Quaw Lumber Company, which controlled about 10,000 acres surrounding Edgar, Wis., but the land has been largely sold and the timber cut and Mr. Quaw is gradually retiring. He owns 220 acres of fine farming land, sixty of which lie within the corporation limits of Wausau, and is much interested in the development of this property. He has long been identified with the Masonic Order, in which he has attained the 32d degree.

JULIUS HEISE, who, for twenty years has been president of the Stettin Mutual Insurance Company, serving four years also as its treasurer, resides on his excellent farm of 150 acres, lying in section 28, town of Rib Falls, three-fourths miles south of Big Rib Falls. He was born in this town, January 5, 1862, and is a son of August and Augusta (Crueger) Heise.

The parents of Mr. Heise were born, reared and married in Germany and when they came to the United States they chose to make their home in Wisconsin, settling as pioneers in Marathon county, selecting a tract of woodland in the wilderness, situated two miles east and one-half mile north of Big Rib Falls. Hardships, and they were great, did not frighten them and constant labor was what they had anticipated in order to make a new home. They were poor at first and had to carry on their backs all the commodities they purchased at ^^'ausau, but later they acquired oxen and with the help of those useful beasts of burden were able to save their own time and strength and to gradually bring a part of their eighty acres to a state where it could be cultivated. Later forty more acres were added through industry and thrift and this is the old Heise homestead and seventy-five acres of this were improved by August Heise and his sons. There were seven children in the family, Julius being the sole survivor. The father yet lives but the mother died when aged sixty-two years and her burial was in the Methodist Episcopal cemetery at Rib Falls. August Heise is a Democrat in politics but takes no active part in public matters, having always devoted himself to his own affairs and doing his duty to his family and neighbors.

Julius Heise attended the public schools when his father could spare him for on a pioneer farm the duties are many and pressing, and afterward he went to work in the woods, lumbering being a winter industry in this section, devoting his summers to farming. When he settled on his present place as owner he had all the improvements to make and has cleared fifty acres where he lives and fifty acres on his other tract. He is one of the busy men of his town, interested in several lines of usefulness and is known all through this part of Marathon county as an authority on insurance matters.

meier, who was born in Manitowoc county, Wis., April 25, 1867, and is a daughter of Henry and Wilhelmine (Grieve) Kielsmeier. They came to Wisconsin from Germany and were parents of eleven children, six of whom survive but Mrs. Heise is the only one living in this county. They were members of the German Reformed church. Mr. and Mrs. Heise have five children: Irvin F., a graduate of the training school, who has been a successful teacher for some years; and Raymond, Reuben M., Linda, and Bertram, all of whom have been given school advantages and are bright, intelligent young members of society. The family belongs to the Lutheran church. Mr. Heise is independent in his political views.

WILLIAM F. LEMKE, who is one of the leading men and reliable citizens of the town of Berlin, resides on the old Lemke homestead situated in section 23, which contains eighty acres, fifty of which were cleared by his father. He was born in Germany, January 6, 1866, and is a son of Fred and Austina (Giese) Lemke. The parents were both born in Germany and belonged to the educated class. They came to America in 1869 and established their home in Marathon county. Wis., settling in the woods in the town of Berlin, their first home being a rude shanty on the site of the present comfortable farm house. Fred Lemke helped to build the first road in the township and became a man of considerable prominence here. He was elected to school ofifices for twenty years, was town assessor for two years, and helped to erect the first Lutheran church, of which he was an officer for thirty j'ears. He served five years as agent for the Berlin Fire Insurance Company, of which he was a charter member and first representative. His death occurred at the age of sixty-two years and his burial was in the Naugart cemetery. His widow survives and resides with her son.

William F. Lemke attended school in a log building in Berlin District No. I, after which he engaged in farm work and spent several years both before and after his marriage, in the town of Stettin and then returned to the homestead. He was three and a half years old when the family first settled here and one of his earliest impressions of the new home was when a violent storm came up and the roof of the house was torn away, his father being absent at the time. He resides in section 23 on the east side of the north and south road and in all, owns 200 acres of land, on which he carries on general farming and raises Guernsey cattle. He is a stockholder in the Citizens State Bank and the German-American Bank and is president of the Naugart Telephone Com- pany, of which he was a charter member. After thirteen years of useful service on the board of Agriculture, being vice president during six years of that time, Mr. Lemke resigned in 1912. In politics he is an Independent Republican. For three years he has been school clerk of District No. I ; for six years has been chairman of the town of Berlin and takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the public welfare. For the last three years he has been treasurer of the Berlin Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company, of which he has been a member for six years.

Mr. Lemke married Miss Bertha Lange, a daughter of Fred Lange, now deceased, and they have the following children : Paul, Lydia, William, Herbert, Erwin, Hertha, Carl, Raymond, Alice, Alfred, Roy and Ramona. All the older children have been attending college, and all are sure of having the best of educational advantages afforded them. The family belongs to the Lutheran church at Naugart, of which Mr. Lemke is a trustee.

WILLIAM E. ZILISCH. M. D.. who has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Wausau since 1907, was born at Hustisford, Dodge county, Wis.. December 21, 1873, a son of F. W. and Emily Hannemann Zilisch, both of whom are now deceased. The father, born in Germany came to America when a young man and was a cabinetmaker and furniture dealer. His death occurred in 1903 when he was aged fifty-four years. The mother survived until 1898. William E. was the eldest born of the family of three sons and one daughter. Gustav lives in Dodge county, having succeeded his father in the furniture business. Hugo, the youngest is a window trimmer by trade and resides in California. Johanna is the wife of David Mackie of Ashland, Wis.

William E. Zilisch received his early education in the public schools, also attending the Juneau High School, of Juneau, Wis. In 1898 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, from which he was graduated in the class of 1902. For one year he w-as an interne at St. Mary's Hospital at Oshkosh and for four years engaged in practice at Hortonville, Wis. In 1907 he came to Wausau, where he has an office in the Livingston Building and engages in a general practice. He belongs to the Marathon county, the Wisconsin state and the American Medical Associations. In politics he is a Republican and he is a member of the Lutheran church.

FRANK KYSO\\', a well known business man and prominent citizen of the town of Hamburg, residing on a farm of 80 acres in section 3, was born in the town of Concord, Jefiferson county, Wis., a son of William and Wilhelmina (Simnicht) Kyson. His parents were both natives of Germany, the father coming to America when a young man, and their marriage took place in Jefferson county. They were the parents of two children : John and Frank. William Kysow died when the subject of this sketch was six months old and his widow subsequently married Gottfried Baneck, also a native of Germany. Of this union there were four children, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Baneck is also now deceased and his widow, mother of Frank Kysow, resides in Jefiferson county. Both the father and step-father of our subject were Demochats in politics. Mr. Kysow's mother is a member of the Lutheran church.

Frank Kysow was reared and attended school in Jefiferson county, Wis. He came to'Hamburg when 21 years of age and resided for a year and a half with an uncle. He then purchased his present farm, which at that time was heavily timbered. Since then he has cleared about 50 acres, leaving the rest in timber. He practically built his present residence, doing all the carpenter work thereon. This residence, which stands on the north side of East and West road, is a good substantial structure, and the farm is well cultivated. Mr. Kysow is a Democrat politically and has served as town supervisor six years, assessor two terms, and has been treasurer of district No. i for the last ten years. He is a stockholder in the Hamburg Cheese Manufacturing Co., of which he was formerly vice-president, and is also a stockholder in the Hamburg Telephone Company.

Mr. Kysow married Miss Lena Petznick, a daughter of Fred and Matilda Petznick, who came to this section from Germany when she was ten years old. They have had four children - Ethel (deceased), Dewey, Hattie (deceased), and Clara. Mr. Kysow is an industrious and progressive citizen, a good representative of the sturdy foreign element which has done so much to build up and develop this section of Wisconsin, as well as other localities, and whose Americanism is proof against all tests.

ARDEX PAROXTO, owner and proprietor of a hardware store at Mosinee, Wis., secretary of the Mosinee Electric Light and Power Company and president of the ]\Iosinee Telephone Company, was born at Stephens Point, Wis., August 6, 1875, a son of Alfred and Mary (Treu) Paronto. The father was born in Canada and the mother in Germany and they now live at Kelley, Marathon county, where he is a fanner.

Arden Paronto obtained his education in the public schools and for seven years afterward taught school, following which he was clerk in a general store at Mosinee for two years. In 1902 he embarked in the hardware business and in 1904 erected his brick building, and has a warehouse here and a second warehouse at the railroad, the dimensions of the latter being 20x130 feet. In politics he is nominally a Republican and has served as one of the village trustees.

Mr. Paronto was married September 4, 1902, to Miss Kittie Coye, who was born in Xew York, a daughter of Sylvester Coye. They attend the Episcopal church. Mr. Paronto belongs to the Masons at Wausau, and to the M. W. A., the Fraternal Reserve Association, the E. F. U. and the Beavers at ^Mosinee.

FREDERICK M. DEUTSCH, a business man of acknowledged reliability, with numerous important interests at Wausau, Wis., stands high personally with his fellow citizens, with whom he willingly cooperates in all matters of civic concern. He was bom at West Bend, Wis., September 8, 1865, and is a son of Frank and Elizabeth (Licht) Deutsch.

Frederick M. Deutsch was reared and educated at West Bend, Wis., and there learned the harness making trade. His father was in the furniture and undertaking business there and in that way the youth learned many practical details which later proved of great value when he became associated with his present line. In 1884 he came to Wausau and for four years was employed here in a furniture store and on June 8, 1888, became associated with Frank Ritter in the furniture and undertaking business, under, at that time, the firm style of Ritter & Deutsch. The former partner of Mr. Ritter had been Mr. Stahl and the firm of Ritter & Stahl established this business in 1884, Mr. Stahl selling his interest to Mr. Deutsch four years later. Up to 1893 the company engaged also in the manufacture of bar, store and ofifice fixtures but in that year closed out that feature and have since given entire attention to the other departments, for which they are thoroughly equipped in every way. In the year 1909 the firm of Ritter & Deutsch was incorporated under the name of Ritter & Deutsch Co., with the following officers: Frank Ritter, president; Edward C. Langenhahn, vice president; Roman C. Deutsch, secretary and treasurer; and Frederick M. Deutsch general manager. In addition to his interests mentioned, Mr. Deutsch is secretary and treasurer of the Scharbau Land, Lumber and Mining Company, and is a member of its directing board.

On April 2y, 1887, Mr. Deutsch was married to Miss Catherine Klein, of Marathon City, Wis., and they have five children: Roman C, who is secretary and treasurer of the Ritter & Deutsch Company; Lienor, who is a music teacher; Leah, who is a senior student in the University of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the Cumnock School of Expression and Oratory, at Evanston, 111. ; Esther, who is a member in the senior class in the Wausau High School; and Frederick, Jr. Mr. Deutsch and family belong to the Roman Catholic church. He is identified with the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Elks and the Eagles.

FRANK DEICHSEL, general farmer in the town of Maine, owns 127 acres of land. He was born at Wausau, Wis., January 20, 1862 and has spent his life in Marathon county. His parents, August and Mary (Kolter) Deichsel, were born in Germany and are now deceased, their burial being at Wausau. They had the following children : Charles, Jacob, Frank, George, Helen, wife of W^illiam Rienow, Amelia, wife of John T. Drinkwater, Marie, wife of George Marthalor and August.

Frank Deichsel attended school until old enough for farm work. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' Produce Company and one of the stockholders and treasurer, the store and warehouse being situuated on the corner of Third and Forest streets, Wausau. Since November 18, 1912 he has had charge of this store and for two years has had charge of the warehouse.

In 1887 Mr. Deichsel was married to Miss Bertha Schurtt, who was born in ^Marathon county, a daughter of Frederick and Caroline (Haker) Schurtt. They have three children: Robert, Frank J. and Agnes. In politics he is a Democrat, and he belongs to the M. W. A. at Wausau. The family belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran church.

RAY M. FRAWLEY, M. D., a practicing physician of Wausau, was born June 2-j, 1882. at Clinton, Calumet county. Wis., a son of Daniel and Annie (Mulcaley) Frawley. The father of Dr. Frawley was born at Boston, Mass., and the mother in Wisconsin, and they are farming people. The family consists of three sons and four daughters: Kittiebelle ; Nellie T., who is the wife of Dr. W. J. Foot, of Appleton, Wis. ; Genevieve; William J., who is a student in the Marquette University; Ethel M., a student in Lawrence University, Appleton; and Donald D., residing at home.

Ray M. Frawley attended the local schools and then was graduated from the Oshkosh Normal School in the class of 1905, and from Marquette University with the class of 1910, in June of that year, having received his medical diploma in the month preceding, and in June he opened his office at Wausau but for some years prior to this had been teaching school. He is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association retains his college fraternities connections, and, as a Catholic, belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Knights of Columbus and to the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin.

WILLIAM E. GENSMANN, who has cleared sixty acres of his farm of 160 acres, situated in the town of Main, carries on general farming and dairying and is numbered with the substantial men of this section. He was born at Wausau, Wis., February 18, 1870, and is a son of Jacob and Amelia (Wilde) Gensmann, well known people of Wausau, where they now live in comfortable retirement.

William E. Gensmann attended the public schools at Wausau and then accompanied his father to the woods and with him engaged in logging and lumbering. In May, 1896. he came to his present farm where he has been engaged ever since. He raises dairy stock and sells cream and butter.

In November, 1895. Mr. Gensmann was married to Miss Anna Kolbe, who was born 'in Germany and was about eleven years of age when she came to the United States with her parents, Emil and Christianna Kolbe. They survive and live on their farm in the town of Marathon. Their children are : Max ; Mary, wife of Wilhelm Katz ; Emil ; Herman : Minnie, wife of Paul Oertel ; and Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. Gensmann have five children: Minnie, William, Albert, Ella and Henry. Mr. Gensmann and family attend St. Paul's Lutheran church at Wausau. He is a member of the town school board, elected on the Democratic ticket. He belongs to the order of M. W. A. and attends its meetings at Wausau.

WILLIAM J. WEISBROD, who is serving in his third term as alderman, representing the First Ward, Wausau, is engaged in the painting contracting business, with residence and office at No. 8oi Plumer street. He was born in Germany, March i6, 1873, and is a son of Henry and Annie (Hartman) Weisbrod, who came from Germany to the United States in 1883 and immediately located at Wausau, W^is. After three years in the city the father decided to become a farmer and moved to the town of Hamburg, where he and wife still live.

After coming to Wausau, William J. Weisbrod completed his education and then began to learn the painting trade, which interested him more than farming; hence he did not accompany his parents to the country, Wausau continuing to be his chosen home ever since, although, in attending to his business he has lived in other places, including Chicago and Milwaukee. He established his contracting business at Wausau in 1903 and gives employment to seven painters and decorators. From the age of eighteen years Mr. Weisbrod has been interested in politics and is a factor in Democratic circles and a very highly regarded citizen of the First Ward, which he is representing in his sixth year in the city council, being ever ready to work for the advancement of ward enterprises and ward people, while not forgetting his public responsibilities to the city as a whole.

In 1903 Mr. Weisbrod was married at Wausau to Miss Frances Odenweller, a daughter of Henry and Theresa (Appel) Odenweller, who were Germans who came to Wausau in 1883, before Mrs. Weisbrod was born. Mr. and Mrs. Weisbrod have three children : Henry, William and Edward. The family belongs to the Roman Catholic church. He is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, the St. Joseph Society, the Beavers, the Eagles, and Bankers Life Insurance Co.

FRANZ WINNINGER, who occupies his comfortable residence at No. 715 Forest street, Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1895 and now lives retired. He was born in Austria, December 3, 1848, was reared and educated there and before coming to the United States spent eleven years and eleven months in military service. For three years he served as a musician and for nine years was a member of the reserves. There are few names better or more favorably known in this section of the country than that of Winninger, it representing an unusual aggregation of musical talent and continued achievement in this direction.