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Mr. and Mrs. Deviley belong to the Roman Catholic church, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks, Mystic Workers and Eagles. In his political views he is a stanch republican and takes an active interest in all local matters. He began his public career in 1899, at which time he was elected justice of the peace. Ile discharged the duties of this office for one term and in 1901 was elected to the board of supervisors in Howard township, while in 1903 he was made chairman of the township, serving in the latter capacity for four years. In 1908, he was the suc- cessful candidate for sheriff, and at the expiration of his term of office was appointed deputy. He is now up for reelection as sheriff of Brown county on the republican ticket. Owing to his long residence in the county and his connection with public life, Mr. Deviley has a wide acquaintance in this section of the state and is accorded the stanch loyalty of a large circle of friends of long years' standing.
CARL HARTMANN.
Watchful of every opportunity pointing to success and prompted by a laudable ambition which is the foundation of all advancement for the individual or for the community, Carl Hartmann occupies a creditable position in industrial circles as vice president, treasurer and general man- ager of the Hartmann-Greiling Machine & Boiler Works, with plant at the foot of IToward street, Green Bay. He was born at Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1872, a son of Sylvester and Christina ( Freese) Hartmann. The father came to Green Bay in 1866 and since 1880 has engaged con- tinuously in the grocery business here, ranking with the leading merchants of the town. He has also become quite prominent in public affairs, serv- ing as city treasurer of Fort Howard in 1888 and 1889, and as county supervisor from the seventh ward of Green Bay for five years. He is also president of the Fort Howard Cemetery Association, and is a man who gives freely of his time and means to aid public projects which he deems beneficial to the community.
Carl Hartmann was educated in the public schools of Green Bay and made his initial start in the business world when fifteen years of age, working in the grocery store of F. DeCremer, with whom he continued for two years. He then learned the machinist's trade in 1888 and subse- quently started in business for himself at Nos. 110-112 South Pearl street. The undertaking was of small proportions at the outset but has steadily grown until it is now a large concern and in 1911 was incorporated under the name of the Hartmann-Greiling Machine & Boiler Works, with Her-
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man Greiling, president ; Carl Hartmann, vice president, treasurer and general manager ; and L. H. Barkhausen, secretary. The same year a removal was made to their present extensive quarters. They have a splendidly equipped plant supplied with all necessary accessories and they manufacture various kinds of machinery, making a specialty, however, of boat machinery. They installed the first steam hammer for large forg- ings operated in Green Bay. Their business has steadily grown as they have demonstrated the excellence of their output and their capacity to promptly handle large orders. Their business methods are unassailable and their enterprise keeps them in close touch with the trade and brings lo them a very gratifying patronage.
Mr. Hartmann was in 1899 married to Miss Amanda Rothe, a daugh- ter of Edward and Gertrude Rothe of Preble township, who were farm- ing people. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann reside at 815 Shawans avenue, and their home is a hospitable one, always open for the reception of their many friends. They have been lifelong residents of this part of the country and their sterling traits of character have won for them high regard. Mr. Hartmann is a member of Lodge No. 259, B. P. O. E. He has never possessed visionary ideas concerning business for at the outset of his industrial career he recognized the fact that unfaltering energy and unabating perseverance are the real sources of success, and through the utilization of those qualities he has steadily worked his way upward.
JOHN EARLY.
John Early died in Green Bay on the 27th of November, 1910, in the seventy-second year of his age. His death was deeply deplored and widely regretted by his fellow citizens for he stood high in the community, and his passing deprived the city of a man who for many years was prominently connected with municipal development in the promotion of laudable business enterprises. Mr. Early was of Irish parentage. His father. Timothy Early, was born in the Emerald isle and came to New York city at an early date. On removing to Wisconsin in 1852 he settled in Hollandtown, Brown county, where he farmed successfully for a number of years. His wife bore the maiden name of Bridget White.
John Early received an ordinary country-school education in New York state and accompanied his parents on their removal to Hollandtown, Wis- consin, where he resided until about 1894. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits and was also extensively interested in the buying and selling of land. He made real estate one of the important features of his commercial life and when he removed to Green Bay he continued to engage in that business in addition to his duties as mechanical and stationary engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company. He subsequently severed that connection and turned his attention to the retail liquor busi- ness, always keeping up his identification with real-estate activities. His business life was distinguished by an intelligent knowledge of land values
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in the various states in which his real-estate connections extended, and by standards of commercial integrity and honor which are rare in this day and age.
In 1882 Mr. Early was united in marriage to Miss Mary Brogan, a daughter of John and Bridget Brogan. Her father, a prominent farmer in Hollandtown, was among the original settlers of that village and is still living there at the age of ninety-two years. Her mother died in 1911 at the age of ninety. Mr. and Mrs. John Early became the parents of five chil- dren : William, who maintains his residence in Chicago, Illinois ; Edward J., who lives in Green Bay where he is prominent in the affairs of the Early Real Estate Company with offices at 109 West Walnut street : Mary, who holds the responsible position of superintendent of the Nurses' Training School in New York city; and James and Ellen, both residing in Green Bay. Mrs. Early passed away in 1897.
During his life Mr. Early gave his political allegiance to the democratic party and served his city as a member of the board of aldermen from 1906 to 1910. His public life like his industrial career was distinguished by energy and resourcefulness directed along worthy lines and won for him a still better place in the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens. He was prominent in the Catholic Order of Foresters but beyond this had no fraternal affiliations. He was a member of the Roman Catholic church. His life was molded along honorable and upright lines, and he attracted to himself numerous friends among the representative citizens of Green Bay, being held in universal respect for his exemplary personal life, his high sense of honor and his rare qualities of citizenship.
JOHN P. SCHUMACHER.
John P. Schumacher was born in Eischen, grand duchy of Luxemburg, December 6, 1854. Here also was born his father, Nicholas Schumacher, in 1806, but whose early manhood was passed in France, when he returned to Luxemburg, and there was united in marriage to Mary Katherina Loesch, who was also born in Luxemburg in 1813. The issue of this marriage was nine children, the first born being a girl, who died in infancy. The others were: Nicholas, of Maryville, Missouri; Rev. Peter A., who died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in March, 1899: John N. and Dominick, both of Chicago, Illinois ; Katherina, now Mrs. Florch, of Fredonia, Wis- consin; John P., our subject; Mary R., of Sheboygan, this state; and Nicholas K., of Chicago. Nicholas Schumacher, the father of our sub- ject, with his wife and surviving children, came to America June I, 1855, going immediately to Port Washington, Wisconsin, and settling on a farm nine miles north of that place, in township 12, where he dwelt until his death. May 6, 1862.
Here John P., the seventh of the children born to Nicholas Schu- macher and his wife, attended the public school until he attained the age of twelve years, in the meantime-when not attending school-con-
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tributing such services as he was capable of to the general work on the farm, and acquiring such knowledge of farming as to inspire him with a desire to test his ability to make his own way in the world, beyond the confines of the parental home. In pursuance of this ambitious purpose, he worked on a farm in a neighboring town for two years. At about this time-he was then only fourteen years old-he evidently had become infected with the virus of "wanderlust," for he is next found working on a farm in Wenona, Illinois, during the summer and fall, and at New- burg, Wisconsin, for the following winter. Here ended his career as an agriculturist for a life vocation, and in the following spring he went to Chicago, and there learned the upholsterer's trade, and, at the age of eighteen, was conducting a mattress shop in that city on his own account. But the spirit of "wanderlust" still abided with him, and urged him onward to other fields of endeavor for the attamment of his ambitious desire to make his own way in the world. So, in pursuance of this purpose, he dis- posed of his business in Chicago, a few months after he had become engaged in it. His wanderings from this time forward may be more graphically and interestingly told in his own words:
"] then went to Omaha, Nebraska. After a few weeks there I went back to Chicago. In the same year I took a job at my trade in Muskegon, Michigan. In the following spring I went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then to Denver, Colorado. Times being extremely hard there, and not having the wherewithal to pay railroad fare back to Chicago, five boys and myself built us a raft, and in September of that year started on our return trip to Chicago, with the intention of floating down the South Platte river, to the Missouri river, and thence to St. Louis. On account of the shallowness of the water and the dangers of quicksand, we had to abandon our boat at a ranch about eighty miles west of Fort Julesburg, Nebraska. We turned over our boat, and other of our belongings, to the owner of the ranch, who took us to Fort Julesburg by team, where we separated. I walked from there to Ogallala, Nebraska, where I worked for one month as a cook at the section boarding-house, for my board. I had injured my foot and was unable to work any longer. Through the kindness of some railroad boys there, I was stowed in a freight car on a Friday forenoon, provided with a bottle of water and two biscuits. I arrived at Omaha late on the follow- ing Sunday night. The next day I went to Harry Drew-the city ticket agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and explained my situation and asked for tickets to Chicago on credit until I could get there. After a few seconds' thought, he handed me the tickets. I took the first train out, and arrived at Chicago Tuesday night. The only thing I had to eat from Thursday night-not having eaten any breakfast before I left Ogallala, Nebraska. Friday forenoon-until I reached Chicago, Tuesday night, was breakfast and dinner at Omaha."
By this time Mr. Schumacher most probably was convinced of the forceful truth of the old proverb, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." But if he failed to acquire any material wealth through his wanderings, he doubtless had garnered a deal of valuable experience that served him well thereafter.
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After working at his trade in Chicago and Milwaukee for about two years, he went to Green Bay in the spring of 1874. In the following fall, he engaged in the upholstering business on his own account. Early in 1877 he became associated with his father-in-law, Mr. J. B. Lefebvre, in the furniture and undertaking business, but two years later, this partnership was dissolved, and both parties conducted separate stores, until 1886, when a consolidation was effected under the firm name of Lefebvre & Schumacher. Upon the death of Mr. Lefebvre in 1893 his sons, Edward and Gilbert assumed his interests, and the business was continued under the same firm name.
By close and intelligent application of business ideals that lead to early and honorable success, Mr. Schumacher amassed a competence at an unusu- ally young age for such an achievement, that he felt would justify his retire- ment from business activities. He was married, September 31, 1874, to Miss Pauline Lefebvre, daughter of J. B. and Henriette Lefebvre, the former of whom later became his business associate, the issue of this mar- riage being eight children. Josephine, who lives at home; Arthur, who married Miss Catherine C. Fastry, of Green Bay, by whom he has one child ; Ella, who with her sister, Mary, conducts the "Woman Shop" of Green Bay ; Edward and Mary who live at home; Harriet, the wife of Charles W. Byrnes, a teacher of manual training in the Green Bay high school; Ben- jamin N., who married Miss Anna Van Halder ; and Urban S., at home. All of the children are living in Green Bay, and all happily situated beneath the parental roof or in homes of their own.
Mr. Schumacher, though not a politician in the general acceptance of this term, has always affiliated with the democratic party, and is always ready and willing to support the principles of this party wherever he could find them. For several years he most efficiently served the people of Green Bay and Brown county on the county board of supervisors. He has always been active-but in an inconspicious way-in support of all efforts for the moral and material welfare of his home town. For many years he has been greatly interested in archæology, and has served effectively in research work along this line in connection with the State Archaeological Association. His reports in this relation rank with the ablest in the archives of the association. His private collection of Indian relics and antiques-mostly all of his own finding-is said to be one of the best private collections in Wisconsin, a part of which is exhibited in the public library in Green Bay.
H. H. HENDRICKSON, M. D.
Dr. H. H. Hendrickson's professional career in Green Bay has been short but it has been marked by energy and activity along medical lines and has been rewarded by gratifying success. He is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery and is also one of the visiting physicians of the city. He was born in Manitowoc. Wisconsin, November 4, 1878,
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and is a son of Ole and Annie Hendrickson. His father came from Nor- way in 1860 and settled immediately in the city of Manitowoc.
Dr. Hendrickson received his primary education in the public schools of Manitowoc and was graduated from the high school in 1896. He attended the State Normal School at Oshkosh and received his certificate from that institution in 1898. For two years following he taught school with much success in Green Bay and from 1900 to 1906 was principal of the West high school in that city. His leanings, however, have always been toward the medical profession and as soon as he was able he entered the Northwestern University and pursued his studies in that institution for four years, receiving his degree of M. D. in 1910. He returned immediately to Green Bay where he is now engaged in the general practice of medicine and is meeting with well deserved success. He uses his talents and energies to improve the condition of the poorer classes in his city and is acting at the present time as one of the visiting physicians. His work in this line has been distinguished by a broad humanity and an intelligent grasp of the needs of the people under his charge. He belongs to the Brown County and the Fox River Valley Medical Societies and also holds membership in the Wisconsin State Medical Association.
On June 24, 1899, Dr. Hendrickson was united in marriage to Miss Anna Landreth, of Princeton, Illinois, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Landreth, of that city. Dr. and Mrs. Hendrickson are the parents of one son, who is attending school in Green Bay. The family resides at No. 614 Kellogg street.
Dr. Hendrickson is a broad-minded and liberal man. He has always been interested in educational affairs and is a member of the Green Bay board of education. He is a master Mason and holds membership in the order of Elks and the National Fraternal League. During his two years of practice in this city he has built up a large following of friends and patients who regard him as one of the most promising and able physicians in the city.
ERNEST WILLIAM SERVOTTE.
Industrial activity in Green Bay finds a worthy representative in Ernest William Servotte, a contractor and builder, thoroughly familiar with every branch of the trade, which forms the basis of his present desirable business connections. He was born in the province of Brabant, Belgium, November 25, 1850, a son of William Servotte, whose birth occurred in that country in 1814 and who in 1856 came with his family to Green Bay. He turned his attention, however, to farming in Door county, Wisconsin, but in 1864 returned to Green Bay, where he took up carpentering and building, which he followed continuously until his death in 1887. His skill and handiwork are yet seen in some of the substantial structures of this city. He married Victoria Maria Demaffe, who was a daughter of William Demaffe and passed away in 1865, at the age of forty-four years. In their family were
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six children, of whom Ernest W. is the eldest. The next three, Frank, Mary and Desire, have all passed away. Julia is the widow of Emil Brosteau and resides in Green Bay, and Joseph also makes his home in this city.
Ernest W. Servotte was a little lad when brought by his parents to the new world. His youthful days were spent under the parental roof and his time was largely given to the acquirement of an education until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he began working with his father at the carpenter's trade, the business connection between them continuing until the father's death. Mr. Servotte of this review then started out alone and as a carpenter and contractor has been well known in this city for many years. He carried on business independently until 1911, when he admitted his son to a partnership under the firm style of E. Servotte & Company, contractors and builders. He has been active in the erection of many prom- inent buildings here. His father was one of the oldest builders of the city and the name of Servotte has been continuously connected with construc- tion interests here through three generations. Ernest W. Servotte is prompt and faithful in the execution of his contracts, is thoroughly reliable in his business methods and his energy and close application have brought him a substantial measure of success that is well deserved.
Mr. Servotte was married, in 1875, to Miss Flora Maria Piraux, who was also born in the province of Brabant, Belgium, her natal year being 1851. She is a daughter of Peter and Angelina (Braden) Piraux, who came to Green Bay in 1856. The father here followed the occupation of farm- ing throughout the remainder of his life. To Mr. and Mrs. Servotte have been born four children: Frank, who is in partnership with his father and married Gertie Kersten, by whom he has two children; Emily, the wife of Henry A. Tennis, a salesman of Green Bay, by whom she has one child; Edward, who is with his father in business; and one, who died in infancy. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church.
Mr. Servotte is an interested and active supporter of the republican party, has served as chairman of his ward committee and has been a mem- ber of the county board of supervisors. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor, and his record proves that success and an honored name may be won simultane- ously.
JOSEPH MIES.
In the death of Joseph Mies, Green Bay lost a citizen whom it had learned long since to esteem and honor because of his ability, his rectitude of character and his unfaltering enterprise. The city had known him from his infancy for he was one of her native sons, having been born here on the 14th of October, 1871. His father, John M. Mies, was born in Kessling, near Coblenz, Germany, and is now living at the ripe old age of eighty-two years. Unto him and his wife were born seven child-
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ren of whom Joseph was the eldest, the others being: Catherine, the wife of Henry Berendsen, a pattern maker of Green Bay; Anna, the wife of John Thelen, a blacksmith of Green Bay, and Mary, Elizabeth, Regina and John, all at home.
After completing his education as a student of the Cathedral school in his native city, Joseph Mies became apprenticed to the printing trade at the office of the German newspaper called "Der Landamann," where he became efficient in every department of the printing business. He gradually worked his way upward and at length became proprietor of this paper which is one of the old established weekly publications of Brown county. Its original proprietors were Schleyer & Emmers, and different changes in ownership have made the paper the property of the firm of Lehman & Robinson and Lehman & Mies. Eventually, however, Mr. Mies purchased his partner's interest and became sole owner of what is now the oldest German paper in northern Wisconsin. It is published weekly and is a bright, newsy sheet devoted to the interests of the com- munity and of the German people. It has a growing subscription list and a good advertising patronage and long since has been placed on a paying basis.
Mr. Mies was reared in the faith of the Catholic church and held membership in St. Boniface Society. He also' belonged to the Turn Verein and to the Brewers Benevolent Society of Green Bay. His interests were broad and varied and he manifested a public-spirited citi- zenship in all of his relations to the city and its welfare, championing many causes which have been direct forces in the growth and progress of Green Bay. A testimony to his character, recognized by all as well- merited. was written by one of the local papers. "In the death of Joseph Mies, Green Bay has lost a good, helpful and conscientious citizen. Always accommodating and courteous, it was a pleasure to meet him in a business or social way. His cheerful disposition appeared to remain unaffected by the business cares and vexations which so often render the average man crabbed and morose. For old and young alike he always had a welcome smile and pleasant greeting. Among his many friends his memory will be cherished as one who had 'charity for all and malice toward none." "
HUBERT KRIESCHER.
Hubert Kriescher is living retired in Bay Settlement after having been for many years influentially associated with business, agricultural and po- litical interests of Brown county. He was born in Germany, September 8. 1830, and is a son of John and Mary Kriescher, also natives of that country. His father was born in 1804 and followed the blacksmith's trade in Germany for a number of years. He came with his wife and family to the United States in 1847 and settled in Dodge county, Wisconsin, in pioneer times, buying a small tract of land in this section. It was cov-
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ered with a dense growth of timber, which he cleared, and then began the work of development, building a log cabin, in which he lived for a number of years. He established a small blacksmith shop upon the stage road between Fond du Lac and Milwaukee, and this enterprise he conducted for. eight years. Eventually, however, he abandoned it to give his entire time to farming. He died in Preble township in 1887, at the age of eighty- three, and was survived by his wife for one year, she passing away when she was eighty-one years of age.
Hubert Kriescher attended the public schools in his native country and there learned the blacksmith's trade under his father. He was seventeen years of age when he came with his parents to Dodge county. For a short period he aided his father in the blacksmith shop but finally bought forty acres of land with the intention of improving and developing it into a model farm. However, when his father sold his land and his shop and came to Green Bay Mr. Kriescher accompanied him and opened a blacksmith estab- lishment of his own in Preble township, which he conducted for twenty- two years. He was obliged to sell his shop eventually, however. because lie met with an accident which incapacitated him for work. During the time he was active in its management, however, he had invested extensively in small tracts of land from time to time until he finally owned two hundred and eighty acres of the finest land in Brown county. After his accident he took up his residence upon one of his farms and gave his entire attention to agricultural pursuits. For many years he operated a threshing outfit in partnership with his brothers, John and George, and was extremely suc- cessful in this line of activity. In 1894, however, he divided his property between his children and retired to Bay Settlement. where he now resides.
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