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Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lodde had the following children: Henry, who lives in Sauk County; George, a resident of Louisville, Kentucky ; Anna, Mrs. Dr. Von Hiddessen, who died at Sauk City in December, 1916; Mary, wife of Walter Taylor, living at West Allis, Wisconsin ; Christina, Mrs. Henry Koenig; Katie, unmarried and living at Sauk
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City ; Miss Millie, living at West Allis; and August, who died at the age of four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koenig were married in Sauk City in 1893. Mrs. Koenig is the mother of four sons: Ernest, twenty-two years old, who is unmarried and is manager of the Bank City Rolling Mills for his mother; Henry, nineteen years of age, who conducts the home farm and is also in the mill and is living with his mother; Herbert, seventeen years old, a student in the University of Wisconsin in the civil engineer- ing course; and Gerhard, thirteen years old and attending township school.
JULIUS HOPPE. The qualities of energy, adaptability, perseverance and integrity have combined in the character of Julius Hoppe in such a manner as to ensure him success in business life and to give him standing among his fellow citizens. He has been a resident of Baraboo for thirty-three years, a period in which has occurred the greatest growth and development of the city, and in this time he has built up the leading merchant tailoring and clothing business here, while at the same time doing his part to aid the city's progress.
Mr. Hoppe was born in Germany, November 11, 1851, being a son of Carl and Wilhelmina (Cline) Hoppe. His father passed his entire life in the country of his birth, dying when his son Julius was but four years of age, but the mother survived for many years, and in the evening of life came to the United States and settled at Chicago, where her death occurred in 1905. Julius Hoppe, as noted, was but a small lad when he lost his father by death and his education was only the ordinary one obtainable in the public schools. He had hardly left boyhood behind when he assumed man's responsibilities, becoming apprenticed to the trade of tailor, a vocation which he thoroughly mastered. For some years he worked at that occupation as a journeyman in Germany, but in 1872, at the time he attained his majority, crossed the Atlantic to seek his fortune in America, believing that in this country he could find more and greater opportunities to satisfy his ambitions than in the fatherland. His first location was in Chicago, where he spent some hard years while learning the manners, customs, language and business methods of this land, but through perseverance and industry he won through to success. He established his own shops for manufacturing clothing. By the year 1884 he had decided to find a smaller town, where he could establish himself in a retail clothing business. In the meantime he had prepared himself thoroughly and was the possessor of some small capital, saved through frugality and hard work. Accordingly, in look- ing about for a location, he saw an opportunity in the growing city of Baraboo, and, coming to this place, established himself in business as the proprietor of a clothing store and as a merchant tailor. Since locating here he has moved but once. His present location he has occupied for the past twenty-four years. He has always maintained the same policy, that of fair dealing and honest treatment. His present place, at No. 518 Oak Street, is a commodious store, with a large display of up-to-date goods, and is the center of a most representative and lucrative trade. It is the leading establishment of its kind at Baraboo and deserves to
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be, as a reward for Mr. Hoppe's years of faithful work and undeviating integrity. His handsome residence is located at No. 739 Fifth Street. Mr. Hoppe has a numer of other business connections and is a director of the First National Bank. Fraternally, he is connected with Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Free and Accepted Masons; Baraboo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Baraboo Commandery, Knights Templar. With his family he belongs to the German Lutheran Church.
Mr. Hoppe was married in 1875 to Miss Augusta Schroeder, who was born in Germany, June 12, 1857, a daughter of Daniel and Henrietta (DeBall) Schroeder. Mrs. Schroeder died in her native land in 1860, and in 1869 Mr. Schroeder came to the United States, settling at Chi- cago, where his death occurred in 1892. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoppe: Anna and Julius, both deceased; Henrietta, born at Chicago in 1880, and now the wife of Raymond McCoy, who, with Peter Lind, assist Mr. Hoppe in the clothing store, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy being the parents of two children, Roger and Kathleen; Wilhelmina, born at Chicago in 1883, is the wife of Peter Lind and has three chil- dren, Genevieve, Audrey and Elizabeth Jane; Julia, born at Baraboo April 13, 1888, and a graduate of Baraboo High School and of Beloit College, is now a teacher in the public schools; and Emma, born at Baraboo July 29, 1893, is graduate of the Baraboo High School, and now the wife of Henry L. Block, an engineer on the North Western Rail- road. They had one child, Henry Julius, born November 29, 1916, who died in infancy.
HERMAN SCHUBRING. There are a few of the pioneers of fifty years back still remaining in Sauk County but many have passed out of life. Some left behind them, together with an honorable name, material proof of their industry and good management during life in the shape of extensive farms that they literally had carved out of the wilderness. When such people as the Schubrings and the Kruegers first settled in the county there was great need of such men as they, men of industry, resourcefulness and perseverance, and the county in general profited by their example. One of the finest farms in Greenfield Township be- longs to Herman Schubring, who is a worthy representative of a sturdy old pioneer family.
Herman Schubring was born in Merrimac Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin, March 16, 1871. His parents were August Herman and Minnie (Krueger) Schubring. The father was born in Germany, Septem- ber 17, 1836, and there his father died. In 1859 he came to the United States and to Sauk County, Wisconsin, with his mother, Mrs. Sophia Schubring. who died in Merrimac Township, Sauk County. August Herman Schubring was married in 1863 to Minnie Krueger, who was born in Germany September 17, 1842. She was eleven years old when she accompanied her parents, William and Augusta Krueger, to. Merri- mac Township, Sauk County, and there her mother died in 1857 and her father many years later. William Krueger lived for one year at Chicago and then went to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where he was in the business of tanning hides and traded with the Indians for furs. These he manufactured into mittens. After he settled on a farm in
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Merrimac Township, Sauk County, Mr. Krueger continued his fur busi- ness and further developed it and made in addition to mittens hand -. some robes and fur coats. He was a man of a great deal of enterprise.
August Herman Schubring served for six months during the Civil war as a member of the Forty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, but the rest of his life was spent as a farmer. When he came to Greenfield Township he bought eighty acres of wild land and immediately began to clear it off, no light task in those days, as it was done without the help of machinery that would be available today. Later he bought a tract of 160 acres, to which he subsequently added another eighty acres and still later an additional eighty, aggregating 400 acres by that time. During his lifetime the greater part of this land was cleared and he put up substantial buildings. His death occurred on the farm owned by his son Herman in 1912. He was a fine man and was universally re- spected. His children were: Minnie and Amelia, both of whom died in infancy; Frances, who married Peter Kramer, and they have had four children, Irvin, Oscar; Dora and an infant deceased; Herman; and Fred William, who is a farmer in Greenfield Township.
Herman Schubring obtained his education in the public schools and ever since has been engaged in farming and stockraising on the land once owned by his father, 240 acres of which is now his own. This land is well adapted both for cropping and stockraising, and in both indus- tries Mr. Schubring has proved himself very capable. He has always taken a good citizen's interest in public matters because that is right and sensible, but he has not desired public office and has never united with either of the great political parties. He is a man of intelligence, and when he casts his vote it is for a candidate that has proved accept- able in his own judgment. Like all other members of his family, he belongs to the Lutheran Church.
LOUIS ULRICH has spent his life since childhood in Sauk County, and owns one of the many excellent farms found in Freedom Township. While he never attended a scientific school of agriculture, he has made a thorough study of agricultural methods and in a successful practical fashion has adapted himself to the environment and has made every year's results a lesson for the next following.
Mr. Ulrich is a native of Germany, where he was born, August 23, 1877, a son of Rheinholt and Augusta Ulrich. Six years after his birth, in 1883, the family crossed the ocean and settled in Sauk County, at first at Ableman, then lived four years at North Freedom, and then on a farm in Freedom Township. The father subsequently sold that place and is now living retired in North Freedom. He came to Sauk County with practically nothing, and by industry and good judgment has come to be rated as one of the well-to-do citizens. He and his wife had six children : Louis, Richard, Frank, William, Meta and Ella. All are living except Frank.
Louis Ulrich grew up on his father's farm in Freedom Township and secured his education in the local schools. In 1900 he bought a hundred and sixty acres in Freedom Township, and for the past seven- teen years that has been the scene of his progressive enterprise as an
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agriculturist. He has made many improvements, including the erection of a fine barn, 32 by 60 feet. He combines the raising of crops with live- stock and with a man of his substantial character every year leaves something to his profit and advancement. He is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church at North Freedom.
Mr. Ulrich married April 5, 1900, Miss Mary Voss. She was born at North Freedom October 20, 1883, a daughter of Christ Voss, one of the early settlers of Sauk County. Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich have four children, Walter, Rheinhart, Arthur and Lawrence.
VALLOO V. MOORE has lived in Sauk County all his life, for over "sixty years, and is bound by many ties of loyalty to this section. His father was one of the real founders of Baraboo as an industrial center, and Mr. Moore has always endeavored to follow the worthy example of his sire and assist in every undertaking that would increase Baraboo's advantages as a residence and business center.
Mr. Moore was born a mile east of Devil's Lake in Sauk County, September 23, 1855. His parents were Levi and Deborah (Stevens) Moore. His father was born in New York State in 1807, while his mother was a native of Indiana, where she was born in 1828.
Levi Moore left New York State in early life and went to Ohio. He married there for his first wife a Miss Titus, and about 1838 he came into the wilderness of Wisconsin Territory, first locating at Port- age. His first wife died there, and only one child grew up, Erastus, who lost his life while a Union soldier in the Civil war. Levi Moore became one of the very first settlers of Sauk County. He came into that vicinity in the early '40s. He and Abe Wood were long associated in their varied enterprises. They established the dam and built the mill in Baraboo on the present site of the McFetridge factory. That was about 1842. Levi Moore was engaged in the sawmilling business the greater part of his active career. As early as 1850 he also became interested in brick making and was associated with Mr. Case in a brick yard near Baraboo. About 1855 he built a mill on Black River and gave it his personal supervision for several years. On returning to Baraboo in the fall of 1860 he reconstructed the dam above the MeFetridge dam and used the power for the operation of a lumber mill. About 1866 he also started a brick yard, which he operated for some six years. He and Mr. Griswold later operated a brick plant about two miles west of Baraboo. Another business to which Levi Moore's attention and capital were directed was the growing of cranberries when that was an important industry of this section of Wisconsin. He acquired several hundred acres of land notheast of Tomah, Wisconsin, and developed it as a cranberry marsh.
Levi Moore was a true New Englander in his spirit of enterprise. He was always working and always had his mind intent upon some enterprise that meant more than his individual prosperity. While in Ohio he had learned the ship carpenter's trade, and he built several boats. He was also a sailor and became captain of his own vessel when about nineteen years of age. During that period of his career he took a cargo of lumber to Chicago. After selling it he found opportunity to
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make some good investments, but like many others he could not foresee the destiny of the great metropolis of the West. He was also much interested in early affairs in Sauk County and was one of the men influential in securing the location of the court house at Baraboo.
The death of this honored old timer occurred at Baraboo November 17, 1899. For his second wife he married Deborah Stevens, who died October 4, 1916. Her father, James Stevens, married a Miss Watts, who died when Deborah was a small child. James Stevens afterwards came to Sauk County, owned a farm and died there about 1865. Levi Moore and his second wife were married at Baraboo in the fall of 1847, and they lived together to celebrate their golden wedding anniver- sary and then for two years longer. They were the parents of six chil- dren: Jeanette, deceased; Eugene, who was drowned in the Baraboo River at the age of four years; Margaret, now Mrs. Charles Williams; Valloo .V .; Carrie, wife of F. F. Slocum; and Edith, who died in 1893. Levi Moore was a democrat in politics and he attended the Unitarian Church.
Valloo V. Moore, who has never married, grew up in close associa- tion with his father and the latter's varied interests and acquired his education in the Baraboo public schools. When about twenty-two years of age he left home and took up a homestead claim in Pipestone County, Minnesota. He lived there and farmed for eleven years, but returned to Baraboo, since his parents were getting old, and took a lively interest in the various investments of his father. He also did some farming near Baraboo and has wisely conserved his father's estate and has turned it to excellent usage in the community. His father and Abe Wood at one time owned 150 acres of land in what is now the City of Baraboo, and Mr. Moore has cleared up part of this estate and developed it for farming and other purposes. For the past eighteen years his home has been at 625 Second Avenue, not far from his father's old place. He built the house in which he now lives. Mr. Moore is independent in politics, and is a man of genial disposition with a host of friends and admirers.
WILLIAM L. FRESE is one of the principal farmers and stockraisers in Merrimack Township, and his home has been in this county through- out his life. His parents were among the very early pioneers of Sauk County.
Mr. Frese was born May 28, 1863, a son of George and Johannette (Goette) Frese. Both parents were born in Waldeck, Germany, and arrived in this country in October, 1850. They soon afterwards settled in the Township of Sumpter or Kingston, as it was then known, and here George Frese bought forty acres as the nucleus of his homestead and subsequently acquired through the profits of his work and his farm- ing enough to give him a farm of 140 acres. That old homestead George Frese occupied as a place of residence from 1852 until his death in 1910. He was born in 1824 and lived to be eighty-six years of age. His wife died in November, 1875. George Frese was a carpenter by trade, having learned that art in Germany, and he followed it until coming to Amer- ica. While he was a practical farmer in Sauk County he also did car-
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pentry work at odd times and combined the two vocations until about fifteen years before his death. He was a hard worker and continued diligently at his business as long as he was able. He was also a man of influence in the community, served as a member of the town board for about eight years and also as treasurer of the school board for a long time. He was a democrat and a member of the Lutheran Church.
He and his wife have. five children, William L. being the youngest. Christina is Mrs. Charles Graff, living in the village of Merrimack, and they have three living children and one deceased. Bertha is a widow, Mrs. Herman Roick, living at Prairie du Sac. She has no children. George is a farmer at Nora Springs, Iowa, and is married and has five children, named Fred, George, Ruby, Dora and Margaret, all single except Fred. Ida is Mrs. John Hartwig, and they have four children, Herbert, Lola, John and Cora, all of whom are unmarried and living with their parents on a farm at Nora Springs, Iowa.
William L. Frese was married in 1896 to Ella Steuber, daughter of John and Louisa (Schwartz) Steuber. They have two children: Louis, born in 1899; and Mabel, born in 1903. Both are still at home and Louis is attending the high school at Prairie du Sac, while Mabel is still in the district school.
Mr. W. L. Frese grew up on a farm, learned the vocation very thor- oughly before he took it up as an independent occupation, and for the past eight years has owned the old homestead of 120 acres in Merrimack Township. It has responded to his efforts as a practical farmer and for three years he has given his entire time to its management. He is also a member of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Frese gets his profits as a general farmer, stockraiser and dairyman. His family are all members of the Methodist Church and he is a demo- crat in politics.
HERMAN SCHLAG. Among the retired agriculturists of Sauk County, one who has won success and independence through his own industry is Herman Schlag, now a resident of the thriving little city of Prairie du Sac. Mr. Schlag has passed his entire life within the limits of the county where he now lives. Here he was educated, here he received his training as a farmer, and here he prosecuted his labors to such good effect that he is able to pass his declining years in quiet and comfort, secure in the knowledge of a life well spent and of a respected name in the community.
Mr. Schlag was born on his father's farm in the Township of Sump- ter, Sauk County, Wisconsin, in 1852, being a son of John G. and Wil- helmina (Stiedtman) Schlag. His parents were born in Germany, and in'the year 1844 left their land for the United States, making a long and perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a frail sailing vessel. Arrived in this country, they made their way to Milwaukee, from whence they came by wagon to what is now the town of Sauk City, then a little settle- ment of but a few houses. In that community they remained while the father completed negotiations for the purchase of government land on Otto Creek, in Sauk County, to which they soon removed. Several years later they went to Sumpter Township and again took up land from the
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government, and there continued to be engaged in agricultural oper- ations until 1870. In that year they took up their residence at Baraboo, where John G. Schlag died in 1895, the mother surviving until 1900. Mr. Schlag was a republican, although not a politician, and he and Mrs. Schlag belonged to the Lutheran Church. They had six sons and three daughters, of whom two daughters are living in Baraboo and one is deceased, while two sons are deceased, and Herman, Paul and Alexander survive.
Herman Schlag was given his educational training in the country schools of Sauk County, and was reared to the vocation of farming, which he made his occupation throughout the active period of his career. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-five years of age, at which time he was married, started housekeeping and com- menced operations on his own account. He proved a good and indus- trious tiller of the soil, used modern methods in his work, and brought his land to a high state of development, so that in later years he was able to retire from active labor and since that time has been living in quiet retirement at Prairie du Sac. In 1877 Mr. Schlag was married to Miss Dell Elizabeth Vandemark, who was born in 1857 in Freedom Township, Sauk County, a daughter of Peter and Rebecca (Odell) Vandemark. Her parents came from New York to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled in the Township of Freedom, but later moved to the Town of Baraboo, and lived there until 1878, when they went to Minnesota. There, in Big Stone County, Mr. Vandemark carried on farming until his death in 1895. Mrs. Vandemark met her death during a cyclone which struck her home near Clinton, Minnesota, in 1908. There were the following children in the family: Erwin and Ella, of Minnesota ; Dell Elizabeth, now Mrs. Schlag; Myra, of Minnesota; Kate and Marie, deceased; and Will, of Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. Schlag have three children: Wilhelmina is the wife of Robert Aton. Dr. Rex Alexander, who graduated from Baraboo High School, attended Rush Medical College, Chicago, for three years, completed his medical preparation at Denver, Colorado, where he re- mained for two years, commenced practice at Monroe, Iowa, and there continued about four years, and in 1909 opened an office at Prairie du Sac, where he has since had a large and constantly increasing practice. He married Louise Swanson, of Cambridge, Nebraska, and has one son, ten years of age. R. H. Schlag graduated from the Baraboo High School and for five years has been a railway mail clerk running out of. the offices at Chicago. He is now in the marine service for the Govern- ment.
Mr. Schlag is a republican, and while he has not sought preferment in his community in the way of public office, has always taken a prom- inent part in movements for local improvements and the general wel- fare of his town and county. He fraternizes with the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America and has numerous friends and well wishers in the community.
MORTIMER HOOVER has lived in Sauk County most of his life and has witnessed the development of this region from a wilderness to a county
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of some of the finest farms and some of the most prosperous communities in the State of Wisconsin. He has borne his own share in that develop- ment and for many years was an active farmer and is now living retired at Baraboo.
Mr. Hoover was born in Sumpter Township of Sauk County May 16, 1847, a son of John and Arletta (Releford) Hoover. His father was a native of Ohio. The parents came to Sauk County when Wiscon- sin was still a territory and acquired a tract of Government land 200 acres in extent in this county. A log house was the first home of the Hoovers, and John Hoover went ahead improving and clearing his land and lived there the rest of his days. His first wife died in 1847, her four children being named Hulda, Marion, Almira and Mortimer. For his second wife John Hoover married Rosalind Jackson, of Sauk County, and by that marriage there were seven children : Rogene and Josephine, both deceased; Gertrude; Ida, deceased ; May; Sigel; and Eva. John Hoover was a republican from the organization of that party. He was a good, hard working citizen and at one time served as overseer of the West Sauk Road. A Methodist, he assisted in building the church of that denomination in Sumpter Township.
Mortimer Hoover grew up on the old homestead and lived there until he was fifteen years of age. He attended the public schools and he gave up the comforts of home life and the advantages of school to carry out his ardent desire to become a soldier.
Though only sixteen years of age at the time, he enlisted in 1863 in Company E of the Forty-first Wisconsin Infantry. He served the hundred day period for which he enlisted and then re-enlisted in Com- pany G of the Forty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was with that organization through all its campaigns until the close of the war.
Having thus fulfilled his duties to the nation in time of her need, he returned home and began working on a farm. He had to make his own way in the world, and it was through hard work that he earned his financial independence. He finally bought a farm of eighty-five acres in Sumpter Township, improved it with good buildings, and the farm is still in the family. Afterwards he bought a place of eighty acres at Kings Corners, in Sumpter Township, which is also still in the family. On the second farm he lived and prospered for many years until 1903, when he came into Baraboo and bought his home on the south side, on Second Avenue. He now enjoys the comforts of a substantial brick house and has all that a man of his quiet and simple tastes could desire for a happy old age. He sold his farm to his son Roy.
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