Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 19th ed., Part 100

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C. J. CLAUSEN.

he built the house being now occupied by J. J. Martens, of whom a brief sketch may be found on another page.

In 1883 Mr. Martens divided his property among his children, and has since then led a life of retirement, richly earned. His wife's maiden name was Fredericka Schultz, to whom he was married March 11, 1851. She is a daughter of Jochem and Caroline (Kalow) Schultz. She was born August 27, 1829, in the village of Rechenzien, Prussia, and crossed the ocean alone in 1851. Within six weeks after her arrival at Chicago she had met, loved and married Mr. Martens, and the following year her parents, with their three other children, emigrated. Her father bought forty acres of land in Proviso Town- ship, which he afterward sold, taking up his resi- dence on the site where his son, John Schultz, now lives, on section 22, of Leyden Township. By trade he was a tailor, but he did not follow the occupation after coming to America. He died in 1869, aged sixty-five years. His wife, Mrs. Mar- tens' mother, died October 8, 1879, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-four years. Their children were as follows: Dorothea, wife of Frederick Volberding, whose husband is still living on sec- tion 30, of Proviso Township; John resides in the same township, and is mentioned in an article headed by his name, on another page of this volume.

Mrs. Martens' paternal grandfather married Miss Brinkman. Their children were: Frederick, Jochem and Elizabeth, all born in Germany .. Frederick settled in Proviso, and his son, Fred-

erick, is still living on section 29, of that town- ship. Elizabeth married Mr. Prill, and remained in her native land. Mr. Schultz was a farmer. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Martens-was the father of Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Voss. Caro- line and George never emigrated.

' The children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mar- tens are: Louise, who married H. A. Draper, whose biography appears elsewhere in this vol- ume; Caroline, now Mrs. William Polzin, of No. 39 State Street, Chicago; John. J., Charles and Henry, whose biographies are to be found in this work; and two children died in infancy. The family attends the German Lutheran Church.

Mr. Martens is a stanch Republican, and has held the office of collector for two years, and of school director nine years. In casting the eye back over this necessarily imperfect sketch of his life, one cannot fail to be impressed by the native, rugged worth of his character. Beginning life as a pioneer in a new country, he permitted no obstacle to daunt him, he knew not the meaning of the word "failure." With resolute will and steady perseverance he hewed out his own path to success, as the pioneer blazes a way through the forest. He is now nearing life's sunset, but for him the coming shade of nightfall has no ter- rors. The love of family, the respect of his fellow-men and the serene confidence inspired by Christian hope will illumine the crossing of the river, just as the recollection of a life of honorable industry, of unflinching fidelity to duty and of spontaneous generosity enable him to review the past without regret.

CLAUS J. CLAUSEN.

LAUS JOHANSEN CLAUSEN is the senior member of the firm of Clausen & Stone, sprinklers of No. 81 Twenty-second Street. He was born July 3, 1847, in Koerrup, Schleswig-

Holstein, and is the fourth child and third son of Andrew Clausen and Elizabeth Nielsen. His parents reared a family of seven children, five of whom are living. Andrew Clausen wasa farmer,

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MARTIN COLBY.

and died when about seventy years old, but his wife is yet alive at the age of eighty-oue years.

Claus J. Clausen emigrated from Denmark when a youth of eighteen years. His life up to that time had not greatly differed from that of other Danish boys of his class, he having attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, and for four years worked upon a farm. He first went to Australia to prospect for gold. For five years he was in the mining camps, when he returned to his native country, but only to re- main about four months. His next departure was for America, and his first employment after reaching this country was as a farin hand at Clif- ton, Illinois. After five months he removed to Chicago. Here he engaged with Rasmus T. Bertlesen to learn the carpenter's trade. This occupation he followed about ten months, when the Chicago fire occurred. Seeing that teaming was likely to prove profitable, he purchased a

team and embarked in that business. Two years later he entered the employ of a gentlemen on Prairie Avenue near Twentieth Street, and from there entered the service of William H. Mitchell, a banker, with whom he remained fourteen years. At the expiration of that time he formed a partnership with Andrew Clausen, under the name of Clausen Brothers, to engage in the sprinkling business, which he has since followed. He is now associated with F. L. Stone.

Mr. Clausen married Miss Marie Larsen in 1891, and is the father of two children, Elizabeth J. and Andrew R.

He has been for several years a leading mem- ber of the Walhalla Society, and has infused new life into the order, among whose members he is widely known and universally esteemed.

He has been moderately successful in business and owes all that he has to his own hard work, grit and gumption.

MARTIN COLBY ..

ARTIN COLBY, a member of the firm of Colby Brothers, at No. 1200 West Fifty- ninth Street and No. 6757 South Halsted Street, was born at Aalborg, Denmark, August 19, 1868. For a detailed history of his parentage and family relations, the reader is referred to the biography of John Colby, on another page of this work.

Like his brother, Martin Colby received his early training in the public schools of his native village. At the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed to a grocer, serving a term of four years. He worked at this business, after com- pleting his apprenticeship, until 1889. In that year he followed his brother to Chicago. For the first six months after reaching the United States he worked as a farm hand, and for about four months he worked as a wood chopper.

He first found employment in Chicago as a coachman, which pursuit he followed eighteen months. During the next two years he worked as a clerk in a grocery store at No. 82 Oak Street, when he resumed his seat upon the box and his handling of the reins for three months. His next situation was with a Mr. Johnson, a grocer on Fifty-ninth Street, and in 1894 lie entered into partnership with his brother John. The steady success of the firm from the day of its inception has been already told. On the opening of the Halsted Street branch, Martin was made manager.

He was married, in 1894, to Miss Mary Petersen, a young lady born in Denmark. Their union has been blessed with three children-Roy, Norma and Baby.

Mr. Colby is a member of Ben Hur Court of the Royal Arcanum.

LIBRARY OF THE ,IVERSITY OF ILLI !!

REV. HEINRICH WOLF

REV. HEINRICH WOLF.

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REV. HEINRICH WOLF.

EV. HEINRICH WOLF. The subject of this sketch is the son of Carl and Salome Elisabeth (Friedly) Wolf, and was born December 31, 1855, on a farm called Kreithof, . yard at Bobingen, near Augsburg, Bavaria, near the village of Penzing, Bezirksamt Lands- berg, Oberbayern, kingdom of Bavaria, Ger- many.

His great-grandfather, Bartholomaeus Wolf, born June 20, 1768, in the vicinity of Zweibrueck- en, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, died May 28, 1828, on the farm which he owned and cultivated. He married Miss Sauermilch, whose brother migrated to England, where he became quite wealthy and died childless. The only descendant of Barth- olomaeus Wolf was a son named Martin, who was born at the same place in the Rheinpfalz in 1789.

Martin Wolf, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was twice married, first to Elisabeth Ritterspach. Of this marriage the fol- lowing named children were born: Michael, born 1811, died January 14, 1877; Heinrich, born June 20, 1817, died July 14, 1888, and Jakob, born 1820, died 1864. All of these sons were large farmers and lived in Bavaria. Mr. Wolf's sec- ond wife was Caroline Kraemer, to whom he was married in the year 1823. She died October 31, 1860. Her children were: Carl, father of the subject of this sketch, born 1824, died November 16, 1860; Philippine, born 1826, died 1857; Magdalena, born in 1828, married; Louise, born in 1830, married, died May 24, 1871.

About 1830 Martin Wolf sold his homestead in the Rheinpfalz and bought a farm near Dachau,in Oberbayern, Bavaria, and settled thereon with his family. Afterward he purchased the farin named Kreithof, near Penzing, which contained about two hundred acres, settled thereon and lived there

with his son Carl until the death of the latter in 1860, after which time he made his home with his older son, Heinrich, who owned a farm and brick

where he died June 26, 1871. Physically Mar- tin Wolf was tall and slim and retained his vigor up to the time of his death, a short time before which he walked three miles to church. . He was good natured and very religious. He was a farmer all his life and his financial condition was good.

The maternal grandfather of the man whose name heads this article was Georg Friedly; by his first wife he had three children: Georg, Jakob and Friedrich. His second wife, Eva Koester, born in 1814, bore him three children also: Sa- lome Elisabeth, in 1836; Eva, in 1838, and David, in 1840. Georg Friedly died in 1842. His widow afterwards died as the wife of the above men- tioned Heinrich Wolf, in 1875. Jakob Friedly with his family came to America in 1872, with members of the Wolf family, and settled at Buf- falo, New York. The Friedlys were farmers in Bavaria. The eldest daughter of Georg Friedly, the mother of the subject of this sketch, Elisa- beth Salome Friedly, was born September 30, 1836, at the village of Kleinschwabhausen, Bezir- ksamt Dachau, Oberbayern, Bavaria.

Carl Wolf, the father of Heinrich, was born in 1824, in the Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, settled with his father on the Kreithof, in Oberbayern, and in 1847 was first married to Magdalena Schwarz, who became the mother of the following children: Rosina, who was born 1848 and died in 1872. Carl, born September 11, 1850, married Mar- garetha Herget, and resides at Inningen, near Augsburg, Bavaria, where he owns and operates a large brickyard. He is the father of ten children,

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five sons and five daughters. Michael, born No- vember 21, 1852, died January 27, 1887, was a farmer, married and lived at Koenigsbrunn, near Augsburg, Bavaria, where he left his widow and two children. Magdalena, the wife of Carl Wolf, died at the Kreithof in 1854. He mar- ried his second wife, Elisabeth Salome Friedly, in 1855. The children of this union were three in number. Heinrich, born December 31, 1855, is the subject of this notice; Georg, born December 19, 1857, married Caroline Kautz, of West Chicago, Illinois, and lives near Little River, Kansas, on his farm; he has six daughters and one son. Au- gust was born November 5, 1859, and resides at Buffalo, New York, where he is engaged in rail- road business. He married Lena Hoffmann. They are the parents of two daughters and six sons.

Heinrich Wolf's father, Carl Wolf, died at the Kreithof November 16, 1860, and was buried at Lang-Erringen, Bavaria. Heinrich Wolf's mother was married after the death of her first husband to Johann Georg Maurer, April 2, 1861. The children of this marriage were: Maria, born March 24, 1863, who married W. B. Wat- so11, of Little River, Kansas, by whom she has four sons; Carolina, born December 16, 1864, married Georg R. Wolf, is the mother of two sons and three daughters and lives on the farm near Nardin, Oklahoma Territory; Gottfried, born Oc- tober 12, 1867, married Miss Mitchel, is the fa- ther of two children and also lives on his farm near Nardin, Oklahoma; Rosina, born January 26, 1870, married John Beyer, a farmer, lives in Oklahoma, and is the mother of four children; Johann, born April 2, 1874, and Jakob, born May 26, 1877, who live at home with their father near Little River, Kansas. Mr. Maurer came to Buffalo, New York, in November, 1871, where he was joined by his wife and her seven children June 14, 1872. In 1875 the family removed to a farm near Detroit, Michigan, where they re- mained until 1880, when they moved to a home- stead near Little River, Kansas. There Hein- rich Wolf's mother, Mrs. E. Salome Maurer, died November 17, 1895, as the age of fifty-nine years. Her body found its last resting place in the Bean Cemetery at Little River, Kansas.

Heinrich Wolf was educated in the public schools of the city of Augsburg, Bavaria, while his parents lived on their farm and brickyard at Bobingen, near that city. Augsburg is one of the oldest cities in Germany, its origin being the Roman Fort "Augusta Vindelicorum" erected anno 13 before Clirist, it is also famous by the Reichstag, which was called by Kaiser Carl V. in 1530 to that city, where the Protestants delivered and defended their confession of Evangelical faith. In March, 1868, Heinrich Wolf entered the gymnasium of St. Anna high school, in that city, and studied until 1870. He then enrolled him- self at the gymnasium in Newburg (at the Dan- ube River), Bavaria, in which he remained until April, 1872, when he emigrated to America. He next attended the Evangelical Pro-Seminary at Elmhurst, Illinois, from April 8, 1873, until June, 1874. In August, 1874, he entered upon a theo- logical course at the Theological Seminary at Marthasville, Missouri, where he finished his studies May 8, 1877.

After having passed the examination for the ministry he was sent to Peotone, Will County, Illinois, where he served as substitute for Rev. G. D. Wobus, who for his health made a visit to Switzerland, Europe. He remained there six months in charge of the spiritual interests of the German Evangelical Immanuel's Congregation. Following this he was called to the charge of St. Michael's congregation at Turner, Du Page County, Illinois, now known as West Chicago, where he remained from February 10, 1878, until January, 1881. He was next called by the Evangelical St. Peter's congregation of Niles Center, Cook County, Illinois, where he served as minister and teacher from Jannary 17, 1881, until September, 1889. He then responded to a call by the Evangelical St. Johannes congrega- tion at the town of Addison, near Bensenville, Du Page County, Illinois, where he has remained since September 3, 1889. At his present loca- tion the secular and religious instruction to the children of the congregagtion is given by a parochial teacher. Mr. Wolf was ordained a minister of the Evangelical Church May 21, 1877, at Peotone, Illinois, by Rev. Wm. Boer-

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A. P. ANDERSEN.

ner, assisted by Rev. G. D. Wobus and Rev. H. Stamer. He became a member of the German Evangelical Synod of the West in June, 1877, at the conference of the Fifth District of said synod, held at Keokuk, Iowa. He was made secretary of this district in 1883 and served until 1890, when he was elected president of the Nord Illinois, district of said synod, in which capacity he served until 1894. In 1885 he also was called member of the board of overseers of the college at Elmhurst, Illinois, he which he served as sec- retary for six years and as chairman since 1892, which position he still occupies. In 1886 the synod elected him member of the Board of Di- rectors of its college at Elmhurst, Illinois, and its Theological Seminary at St. Louis, Missouri, where he is still serving. Anno 1882 H. Wolf became a charter member and secretary of the German Evangelical Colonization Society of Chi- cago, Illinois, by which, in 1883, a large German colony at New Salem, Morton County, North Dakota, was established, which is now in a pros. perous condition. In the year 1894 Rev. Hein- rich Wolf with others organized the German Evangelical Orphans' and Old People's Home As- sociation of North Illinois. He was elected presi- dent of said association and chairman of the board of directors of the Orphans' and Old Peo- ple's Home at Bensenville, Illinois, which was erected and dedicated in 1895. Since that time he also served as secretary of the board of over- seers of this institution, and still retains the above positions.

Rev. H. Wolf was married May 18, 1881, to Miss Louise Wurtz, daughter of Jakob and Sa- lome (Schoch) Wurtz. Mrs. Wolf was born No-

vember 8, 1862, on the homestead farm of her parents in Town Winfield, near Turner Junction, Du Page County, Illinois. The children of this union are: Theodor Heinrich M. G., born Oc- tober 13, 1882, at Niles Center, Illinois; Adelheid Salome M., born September 5, 1884, died October 19, 1884; Otto Fr. Paul, born September 15, 1885; Heinrich Gustav Adolph, born January 8, 1888; Alfred Philipp Adolph, born May 18, 1890, at Town Addison, Du Page County, Illinois; Ru- dolph Edward Daniel, born November 28, 1892; Reinhard Wilhelm Georg, born January 4, 1896; and Hermann Heinrich, born March 21, 1898.

Rev. Heinrich Wolf, as his biography shows, has been a man of industry and untiring energy. From the date of his entering school until his graduation he was constantly busy in preparing himself for future usefulness. He was a close student, made the most of his opportunities and succeeded in whatever he undertook. Since his entrance in the church work he has been ever busy in ministering to the needs of his congrega- tion, striving to do his utmost as a teacher, in both secular and religious matters. That he is a man of more than ordinary ability, and that his efforts have been crowned with more than or- dinary success, is made evident by the number and importance of the positions, to which he has been called. In 1879 he made application for naturalization at the court of Tazewell Coun- ty, at Pekin, Illinois, and was declared citizen of the United States June 30, 1879. As he regards the Republican party as the one through which the greatest good may be brought to the people of this government he has bent his energies to the promotion of the policy of that party.

ANDREW P. ANDERSEN.

NDREW PETER ANDERSEN is of Swe- dish parentage and birth. His parents were natives of Sodermandlin, where he, too, was born, January 31, 1853. His father,

Andrew Larson, was a carpenter, and died at his birthplace at the age of forty-two years. His mother, Johanna, survived her husband many years, passing away after reaching her sixty-

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W. N. STANLEY.

sixth year. The two sons and three daughters born to them are still living, Andrew Peter All- dersen being the eldest, and only one who has sought fortune on this side of the Atlantic. He left school when a lad of twelve to become an errand boy, and worked at various callings in his native place until 1880, when he determined on coming to America and to Chicago.

On reaching that city, not being a skilled me- chanic, he found it necessary to accept the first employment that offered. He found it in a lum- ber yard, where he worked two months. After two months he went to Iowa, where, for a short time, he worked in a "section gang," on a rail- road. He returned to Chicago, and from there went to Arkansas, but again gravitated to the .city which was ultimately to be his home. In 1883 he obtained a position as driver of a milk wagon, and this was the inception of his present business, he opening a route of his own two years later, in the North Division of the city. For seven years he prospered, through industry, thrift and uprightness, and in 1890 he bought

tlie site of his present home, at No. 1111 West Fifty-ninth street, and erected a building. The same success attended him. He added No. 1113 to his holdings, and at present runs three wagons and does a remunerative and growing business. For such men there is no such word as fail.

In. 1888 he married Miss Eva Louise Johnson, a native of Smoland, Sweden, where she was born March 1, 1856. Mrs. Anderson is the sec- ond child of John Peter and Ulrica Petersen. She came to America in 1881, and to Chicago in 1883. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andersen-Levi Emanuel, Edwin Nathan- iel, David Theodore and Alice Elvira Victoria. The family attends the Swedish Mission Church, of which the parents are members, and in which they are active workers.

Mr. Andersen has received 110 outside aid in building up his success. On reaching Chicago he had but forty-two dollars. All that he has accumulated since he owes to his own patient thrift. Of such a record he may well feel very proud.

WILLIAM N. STANLEY.

ILLIAM NEWTH STANLEY, a pioneer settler of Chicago, and a veteran of the Civil war, is a native of Purton, Wiltshire, England. He was born May 22, 1842. His parents were Jolin and Jane (Newth) Stanley.

May 1, 1852, the parents, with their seven children, embarked at Liverpool, in the sailing ship "Western World," then said to be the largest vessel afloat, and after a voyage of about six weeks, landed at New York. From there they came direct to Chicago, which they reached July 12.

John Stanley was successful in business and accumulated considerable property. He was en-

gaged in the marketing of meat and vegetables until about 1875. He then retired from business and, owing to his wife's poor health, went to Europe, spending the summer of 1873 abroad. The next spring they went to Colorado Springs, where Mrs. Stanley died in 1877. Mr. Stanley survived his wife about sixteen years, and died in Florida about 1893. The following named children were born to this couple: Jolin, 110w de- ceased, William N., James, Lucy, wife of O. P. Hopkins, of Colorado Springs; Giles A., of Chi- cago; Robert V., of Chicago; Nellie, wife of a Mr. Jones, of Colorado Springs, and one otlier who died in childhood.

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JOHN GLAMBECK.

William N. Stanley was educated in the pub- lic schools of Chicago, and later learned the trade of butcher. He was engaged in business for him- self on the West Side when the Civil War broke out, and sold out his business to enlist in the army, in June, 1861. He became a member of Company D, Sixty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The term of enlistment was for three months, but Mr. Stanley served about four months, when, owing to sickness, he was unable to re-enlist. Returning to Chicago he resumed business, which he carried on successfully about twenty years. From the profits of trade he took money to invest in real estate and through the increase in value thereof became one of the sub- stantial men of the West Side. It is now nearly twenty years since he went out of business. In his long business career he always fulfilled faith- fully every obligation. During this period of leisure he has devoted a large portion of his time

to travel, although closely caring for his property interests in different states. He cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has been a consistent member of the Repub- lican party from that time to the present. Be- ginning with the year 1855 he served as a vol- unteer fireman until the paid department was established. During this period he saw much arduous service and had some very narrow escapes from death.

In 1867 he married Maria L. Bowman, a native of Oswego, New York, and daughter of William and Maria Bowman, of Scotch nativity. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are the parents of two children: William A., a grocer of Chicago, and Emma, wife of John E. Dickinson, of Burlington, Kansas. Twochildren, John and Thomas, died of diphtheria in 1877, aged respectively eight and four and one-half years. In religious faith the parents are Presbyterians.

JOHN GLAMBECK.

OHN GLAMBECK is the eldest of seven children of Jorgen and Maren (Hansen) Glambeck, of the Island of Fuen, Denmark. His father, who served in the Danish-German war of 1864, is by occupation a hand loom weav- er, and both his parents are still living in Den- mark. Indeed, Mr. Glambeck is the only mem- ber of the family to cross the water to the New World.

He was born July 12, 1863, and until his eighteenth year he led the usual uneventful life of the Danish youth of his class. After leaving school he worked on a farm, and in 1882 he came to America. His first home after reaching this country was at Canton, Ohio, where he found employment in a brick yard for a period of six months. From there he went to Saint Croix

County, Wisconsin, where he had an opportunity to attend school in the winter. The following summer he went still further west, working for some months in Montana, for the Northern Pa- cific Railway Company, and later in the harvest fields of the (then) Dakota Territory.

Returning to Wisconsin, he bought a small farm in Saint Croix County, and again began at- tending school during the winter months, when farm work was practically at a standstill. After a short time, however, he once more took up work on a railroad, first at Knapp, Wisconsin, and later at Monticello, Illinois. From the lat- ter place he came to Chicago, where he has ever since resided, with the exception of a few months in 1888, which he spent in his native land.

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 19th ed., Part 100

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : La Salle Book Co. Number of Pages: 908

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : La Salle Book Co.
Number of Pages: 908