History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and representative citizens, Part 85

Author: Marchetti, Louis. cn
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1042

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a farm of 240 acres, situated three and a half miles from Wausau, and is a very successful breeder of Guernsey cattle.

On October 4, 1882, Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Della L. Russell, daughter of Andrew J. Russell, Manistee, Mich., and they have a family of three sons and two daughters. Mr. Wilson has ever been a dependable citizen, and while living at Manistee, Mich., was supervisor from the second ward for four years. For twelve years he was postmaster at Star Lake, Wis.

JOSEPH HAMERLE, who conducts a wagon repair shop at No. 407 Sixth street, Wausau, and is known as a competent blacksmith and horse- shoer, has lived in America since he was fourteen years of age, but his birth took place in Germany, June 4, 1869. His father, Valentine Hamerle brought his family to the United States in 1883, settling on a farm in Mani- towoc county, Wis.

Joseph Hamerle learned his trade in Manitowoc county and afterward worked as a journeyman horseshoer in that county and also in Marathon county after 1888.Five years later he went to Phillips, in Price county, Wis., where he worked for two years and then returned to Wausau, where he owns his building, which he has occupied since May, 1896. A man of industry and reliability, Mr. Hamerle does a very satisfactory business and is a highly respected citizen.

At Sheboygan, Wis., Mr. Hamerle was married to Miss Clara Harff and they have five children: Daniel, Raymond, Valentine, Gertrude and Isabel. The family belongs to St. Mary's Catholic church, and Mr. Hamerle is a member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin.

SETH M. B. SMITH, M. D., physician and surgeon at Wausau, with office in the Lawrence Block, has been established in this city since 1905 and has a practice that engages the larger part of his time. Dr. Smith was born at Clinton Junction, near Janesville, Wis .. August 8, 1875.

The childhood and boyhood of Dr. Smith were mainly passed at White- water and Fort Atkinson, Wis., his school period being spent at the latter place. After completing the high school course he entered upon the study of medicine and in 1900 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Chicago, Ill. He began his practice at Crandon, Wis., in 1900. After practicing a couple of years he did several months post graduate work in England and Germany. Later, in 1905, he came to Wausau and has iden- tified himself with the leading professional organizations of the country. From 1906 until 1908 he was secretary and treasurer of the Marathon

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County Medical Society, and again from 1910 to 1912, and is now vice-presi- dent of this body. He belongs also the Wisconsin State Medical Society and to the American Medical Association.

Dr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Porter, of Wausau, January 25, 1905, a daughter of J. A. Porter, and they have three children: Judson, David and Eugenia.

Dr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian church and he is identified with the Masonic fraternity.

JOHN SEIDLER, who is one of the representative citizens of the town of Hamburg, of. which he has been clerk ever since 1897, resides on section 12, fourteen miles southwest of Merrill, Wis., owns two separate farms, aggregating 159 acres. He was born in Wisconsin, February 27, 1862, and is a son of Gottlieb and Elizabeth Seidler.

The parents of Mr. Seidler were early settlers and became well known people of the town of Hamburg. They came into Marathon county with a colony of emigrants, with their own oxen and wagon and settled three miles west of the present farm of their son John, securing eighty acres of wild land. Through unremitting toil the father converted this land into a pro- ductive farm and the mother yet lives on the same, in her old age enjoying many of the comforts unobtainable in her youth. The father died here in April, 1887, and his burial was at Hamburg. He was a republican in his political faith and on many occasions was entrusted with offices of responsi- bility, serving honestly and efficiently as district clerk, juryman and super- visor. He was a member and supporter of the Lutheran church.

John Seidler attended the public schools and afterward worked as a farmer during the summer seasons and in the woods in the winters. Fol- lowing his marriage he settled on his present home farm of eighty acres, which his father helped to clear to the extent of ten acres and built the barn which still stands. Mr. Seidler has forty acres of this farm now cleared and the other buildings he erected. His second purchase of land is all timber and no improvements have, as yet, been placed on it.

John Seidler was united in marriage with Miss Albertine Henke, of the town of Rib Falls, and the following children have been born to them: Bertha, Lydia, Laura, Clara, Martha, living; one son named Arnold and one daughter named Hulda who died before they were two months old, and one son who died unnamed. Mr. Seidler and family are members of the Luth- eran church. He is independent in his political attitude, but this has not prevented his being frequently chosen by his fellow citizens for public office.

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He has served four times as juror, has also served as school clerk and as justice of the peace. He is one of the stockholders in the Hamburg cheese factory, of which big local enterprise he was a charter member, also a charter member and a stockholder in the Hamburg Creamery, and a stockholder in the Hamburg Telephone Company.

ABRAHAM BERTOLET ROSENBERRY, M. D., physician and sur- geon practicing at Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1911, but for many years has been engaged in medical practice in the state of Wiscon- sin. He was born in Medina county, O., September 12, 1854, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah ( Bertolet ) - Rosenberry.

The first of the Rosenberry name of whom record has been preserved was Henry Rosenberger, who came from Germany and settled in Franconia township, Montgomery county, Pa., in 1729. There was also a Daniel Rosenberger, whose son was named David and one of the latter's seven sons was Philip Rosenberger, who married Mary Landis and they were the grand- parents of Dr. Rosenberry of Wausau. They died in Pennsylvania.

Samuel Rosenberry, father of Dr. Rosenberry, was born in Montgomery county, Pa., February 21, 1809, and had two brothers and two sisters who died near Philadelphia. In Pennsylvania Samuel Rosenberry married Sarah Bertolet, who was born in 1817 and died in 1861. Jean Bertolet was the first of her family in America. He came from Switzerland in 1726 with his family. Before Samuel and Sarah Rosenberry started for Medina county, O., two sons were born to them. The journey was made by wagon and was tiresome and to some degree dangerous, in 1840, for a great part of the coun- try traversed was practically a wilderness then. They settled on a farm in Medina county and passed the remainder of their lives there. Eleven chil- dren made up their family. Philip B., who was born in 1838, became a dentist and died in Canada in 1890. Jacob Reiff, who was born in 1839, died in Indiana in 1893. Mary became the wife of Washington Mapes and they live at Fulton, Kalamazoo county, Mich. Eliza, who was born in 1843, married Henry Walton and died in Canada in 1904. Sarah, who was born in 1844, married Harrison H. Kendig and died in Michigan in 1903. Samuel, born in 1846, is a farmer and contracting carpenter in Kalamazoo county, Mich. Hannah, born in 1847, and Henry, born in 1849, both died in infancy. Alvan, who was born October 2, 1851, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1880 and settled at Wausau in 1886, where he practiced until 1896, moving then to Oak Park. Chicago. and died at Benton Harbor, Mich., May 8, 1912. The next in

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order of birth was Abraham B., and the youngest of the family, Harvey L. The latter was born September 14, 1857, and was graduated from Starling Medical College, O., in the class of 1883, practiced for seventeen years at Wausau, and died in this city January 11, 1911.

Abraham B. Rosenberry attended the public schools and afterward com- pleted a normal school course at the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, graduating in 1878, although, prior to this, he had taught school and afterward, from 1878 until 1881, he had charge of the schools of Menominee, Mich. In 1882 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan and on February 20, 1883, was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago. His first location for practice was at Pesh- tigo, Mich., from which place he removed to Plymouth and then to Sheboy- gan Falls, Wis., then to Oconto, Wis. He later spent five years at Harri- son and then entered into practice at Arbor Vitae, Wis., where he continued for seventeen years and then came to Wausau. Dr. Rosenberry is a valued member of the county and state medical organizations and of the American Medical Association. He is local surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and is medical director of the Great Northern Life Insur- ance Company, at Wausau, and also is surgeon for the Employers' Mutual Liability Company.

On August 5, 1880, Dr. Rosenberry was married to Miss Kate Walton, of Bloomington, Ill., who died November 14, 1886. On March 26, 1890, Dr. Rosenberry married Miss Kate Boardman, of Grand Forks, Dak., and they have had four children : Ruth and Louise, and two who died in infancy. Dr. and Mrs. Rosenberry are members of the Presbyterian church. In politics he has always given support to the republican party, and fraternally has been identified with Masonry for many years, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.

LOUIS KRAATZ, president of the Wausau Foundry and Machine Shops, at Wausau, is at the head of a large business enterprise, in which he is mainly interested with other members of his family. He was born in 1852, in the city of Milwaukee. Wis., and is a son of Manoel Kraatz. After his school days Louis Kraatz entered his father's machine shop at Milwaukee and in his native city learned his trade in a very thorough manner and prior to coming to Wausau, some ten years ago, was engaged there as a machinist. On June 18, 1903, the John A. Frenzel Iron Works were purchased, the name changed the same year, and the concern incorporated as the Wausau Foundry and Machine Shops, the officers of the company being: Louis Kraatz, presi-

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dent; Mrs. Bertha Kraatz, vice-president; Albert J. Kraatz, secretary and treasurer; Carl Kraatz, the second son, is also a member of the firm. The plant is finely equipped, fitted with expensive modern machinery. In the woodwork department skilled workmen make all the patterns and frames for their machines and gasoline engines are also built, the plant turning out all kinds of machinery and doing repair work of every description. Mr. Kraatz and sons are all practical machinists and they keep a force of nine men employed in the works. The younger son, Carl Kraatz, is a graduate of the engineering department, of the class of 1911, of the University of Wisconsin. This is one of the most stable and prosperous industrial plants at Wausau.

NATHAN HEINEMANN, proprietor of the largest mercantile estab- lishment at Wausau, Wis., has been a resident here almost forty years and during the greater part of the time has been a merchant. He stands as one of the solid, reliable, representative business men of Wausau. He was born in Baden, Germany, March 4, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Yedda Heine- mann, who came to Wausau after their sons had established themselves here. They spent their last days here, honored and esteemed by all.

Nathan Heinemann attended school and served his apprenticeship with a merchant at Baden and in the spring of 1863 entered the employ of a dry goods firm there as a clerk. In 1867 he came to the United States and before reaching Wausau, in 1874, spent the intervening years in large business cen- ters, in New Jersey, New York, Savannah, Ga., and Chicago, Ill. After deciding upon Wausau as a promising business field, Mr. Heinemann with his brother Benjamin, opened a small store which was soon expanded into a general store, carrying all commodities for which there was a demand, and the brothers continued their partnership for twenty-two years. After the partnership was severed Mr. Heinemann continued for himself, and. although he has many other large and developing interests, he still carries on his merchandising, confining himself mainly to dry goods and carpets. There are many who would have a lonely feeling if his pleasant personality was removed from the activities in which he has made himself felt for so many years. Being one of the early business men here Mr. Heinemann can recall much that is interesting concerning the introduction of many of the labor saving devices which then were luxuries, but have now become necessities. He was one of the early sewing machine agents, there probably not being at that time more than three machines owned in all Marathon county.

In September, 1873, Mr. Heinemann was married to Miss Rebecca Kain,

NATHAN HEINEMANN

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of New York City, and they have six surviving children: Harry, who is associated with his father in the mercantile business; Helen, who is the wife of Max Young, of St. Paul; Gertrude, who lives at home; Fred, who is in the lumber business in Saskatchewan, Canada; and Solomon and Byron.

Mr. Heinemann has always been interested in progressive matters and has been quick to recognize all modern utilities and has served as president of the Wausau Telephone Company of Wausau since its organization in 1895. He owns much improved real estate here and also great tracts of timber land in Wisconsin. For many years prominent in Masonry he was chairman of the committee that arranged for the erection of the Masonic Temple in this city. In 1912 he was appointed by Governor McGovern a member of the Wisconsin Income Tax Board. While he has concentrated his interests largely at Wausau, Mr. Heinemann has traveled extensively both in America and in Europe and can enjoyably visit Germany, France and Spain because he can speak their languages fluently. He belongs to the Wausau Club and to the Wausau Liederkranz.

WILLIAM ALBRECHT, JR., who is in the real estate, loan and life insurance business at Wausau, has been a resident of this city since the fall of 1903 and is a well known and representative citizen. He was born at Mayville, Wis., May 27, 1877, and is a son of William and Caroline Albrecht.

William Albrecht was reared in his native place and attended the com- mon and high schools, after which he gained a practical knowledge of black- smithing and worked at this trade under his father for six years. In Sep- tember, 1903, he came to Wausau and embarked in the real estate and insur- ance business and remained alone until January 1, 1911, when the business became a corporation under the style of Albrecht, Bock & Chellis, of which Mr. Albrecht became secretary. In July, 1912, he sold his interest in the same to A. A. Bock & Son, and as an individual reembarked in the same business, securing a convenient office in the National American Bank Build- ing. He is agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, an organization that enjoys a large amount of public confi- dence in Wisconsin. Mr. Albrecht handles mainly farm and suburban prop- erty and has been the means of bringing considerable capital to this section for investment. In 1903 Mr. Albrecht was married to Miss Clara Guth, of Mayville, Wis. He is active in politics only to the extent that good citizen- ship demands and fraternally is identified with the Masons.

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C. C. BARRETT, who has been prominently identified with the develop- ment of Edgar, Wis., coming here in 1893, after successful business experi- ences in other sections, was born in Blooming Grove township, Dane county, Wis., three miles from Madison, December 25, 1858, a son of James W. and Jane (May) Barrett, who came from Wethersfield, Conn., in 1847. Their ancestors were some of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., who came from Sussex, England, A. D. 1640, and settled in Roxbury, Mass., and later at Weathersfield, Conn. They had four children, two sons surviving, C. C. and a brother, Clifford P. Barrett, the latter of whom is a resident of Chicago, Ill.

James W. Barrett, the father, who was a private in Company G, 29th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, died in the service of the United States. In November, 1863, the family moved from Wisconsin to Wethersfield, Conn.

C. C. Barrett was educated at Weathersfield and Bridgeport, Conn. He then became a commercial traveler for a wholesale boot and shoe house of Hartford, Conn., and continued in that line for ten years when he moved to Kansas City and became connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad as ticket agent and traveling passenger agent, remaining eight years, and for the three following years was manager of the Ada Mining Company and was stationed at Joplin, Mo. He then became interested in the mining busi- ness, which occupied his attention until November, 1893, when he came to Edgar. Here he first engaged in logging, but soon embarked in the real estate business, his holdings covering a wide territory. A man of enter- prise and foresight, he soon was chosen for leadership in the developing of this section. He served three years as postmaster of Edgar and erected the first special postoffice building ever put up in Marathon county, Edgar having a building even before any such particular structure had been erected at Wausau. He then organized the Edgar Land Company, which laid out forty acres in town lots, the north side of the village, and in three and one- half days had a half mile of street with sidewalks graded. The property was thus made so presentable that the sale of lots was thereby more easily brought about and life was introduced into every avenue of business. He also laid out forty acres about one-half mile distant from the old town of Rib Falls, in connection with the Rib Falls Land Company, and in carrying on the work of improvement here made use of six railroad wheel scrapers, grading roads. He helped to organize the Edgar, Cassel & Emmett Tele- phone Company, of which he is an official and is president of the Edgar Local Telephone Company, which company installed and operated the first tele- phone exchange in Marathon county outside of Wausau. In politics he is

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a republican, for eighteen years has been a justice of the peace and was the first police judge elected at Edgar after the incorporation as a village.

In 1903 Mr. Barrett was married to Mrs. Clara B. Minshall, a daughter of Mathias and Anna Blumer, of La Crosse county, Wis. They have three children: Clifford C., Jane May and Charles J., and son Cyrus B. Minshall by a former marriage of Mrs. Barrett. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett attend the Presbyterian church.

FRANKLIN ELISHA BUMP, member of the law firm of Bump & Manson, at Wausau, a practitioner in the United States Supreme Court, and from 1898 to 1913 a United States Commissioner for the Western Dis- trict of Wisconsin, was born at Wausau, November 9, 1873, a son of Elisha L. and Lillie A. (Gurley) Bump.

Elisha L. Bump was born on a farm in Otsego county, N. Y. In 1864 he removed with his parents to Wisconsin and settled on a farm near Almond, Portage county. He was educated in the public schools and at Alleghany Institute, Alleghany county, N. Y., studied law in the office of E. L. Browne at Waupaca, Wis., and was admitted to the bar in December, 1870, in the fall of the following year beginning the practice of law at Wausau. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of Marathon county as an independent candidate and served during 1873 and 1874. During 1880 and 1883 he divided his time between his practice at Wausau and that of the firm of Bump. Hetzel & Canon, at Merrill, of which he was senior member, and in 1883 removed to Merrill, the firm subsequently becoming Bump & Hetzel. Endorsed by both political parties he was elected mayor of Merrill and served as such during 1885 and 1886. From 1890 to 1891 was senior member of the law firm of Bump & Van Hecke. In the spring of 1892 he returned to Wausau, entering into a law partnership with Senator A. L. Kreutzer and in January, 1895, the firm of Bump & Kreutzer became Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberry, and in the same year Mr. Bump was chosen city attorney of Wausau and served two terms. In January, 1901, he retired from the above firm to form the firm of Bump, Marchetti & Bump, composed of himself, Judge Louis Marchetti and Franklin E. Bump, his son. For more than thirty years he was in active practice in all the courts, state and federal. His death occurred July 15, 1904. In 1872 Elisha L. Bump was married at Waupaca, Wis., to Miss Lillie A. Gurley, who survives. They had three children : Franklin E., Mary E., who is the wife of J. C. Schmidtman, of Manitowoc, and Florence, who is the wife of Seth N. Warner, of Minne- apolis.

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Franklin E. Bump passed from the high school into the University of Wisconsin, graduated in law at the University of Michigan, and took his A. B. degree at Leland Stanford University, the last named honor having been attained in 1897. He was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar, June 24, 1896, and entered into practice in the following year with Neal Brown and L. A. Pradt, the firm being Brown, Pradt & Bump. In 1900 he entered into partnership with Judge Marchetti under the style of Marchetti & Bump, and in 1901 the firm became Bump, Marchetti & Bump, of which his father was the senior member. After Judge Marchetti was elected to the bench the firm became E. L. & F. E. Bump, which name prevailed until April, 1909, when Mr. Bump became associated with H. H. Manson and the firm caption has been Bump & Manson since that time. Mr. Bump's professional ability has been frequently acknowledged. From 1900 to 1901 he served as city attorney of Wausau; from 1906 to 1907 he was district attorney of Mara- thon county; from May, 1910, until May, 1912, was again city attorney, and at the judicial election of 1913 was elected county judge for the six-year term, beginning in January, 1914, and has served in other public offices.

In 1897 Mr. Bump was united in marriage with Miss Laura Smith, a daughter of Doctor Theophilus and Harriet (Crown) Smith. The mother of Mrs. Bump at the time of her marriage with Doctor Smith was the widow of Burton Millard, who was killed while serving as a soldier in the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Bump have four children: Franklin E., Jr., born in 1898, Warner, born in 1901 ; Millard, born in 1903; and Laura Virginia, born in 1906. Mr. Bump and family belong to St. John's Episcopal church at Wausau. He retains his membership in his college fraternities and is active and interested in both the Wausau City and the Wausau Country Clubs. He is identified fraternally with Forest Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M .; Wausau Chapter, No. 51, Royal Arch Masons; Wausau Council, No. 23, Royal and Select Masters, and St. Omer Commandery, No. 19, Knights Templar; also to Marathon Lodge, No. 145, Knights of Pythias.

CARL KOENIG, general farmer in the town of Stettin, lives on the farm of 120 acres on which he was born. August 5, 1886, and is a son of Carl F. and Pauline (Boerner) Koenig. Both parents were born in Ger- many and were married there. Of their family of nine children eight are yet living. The mother still lives on the home farm, but the father died when aged thirty-seven years and six months.

Carl Koenig grew up on the home farm and helped his father to clear it. After his school days were over he took charge of the property, farming in

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the summer and working for loggers during the winter, and has continued to carry on farming very successfully. He is financially interested in the local cheese factory and is a member of the Stettin Mutual Insurance Com- pany. In politics he is a republican and in the spring of 1912 was elected town supervisor. In June, 1910, he married Miss Clara Denel, a daughter of William and Amelia Denel, of the town of Stettin, and they have one child, Dora. Mr. and Mrs. Koenig are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Koenig is a member of the local singing society and has been a member of the Stettin band for a number of years.

CHARLES WEINFELD, general agent for northern Wisconsin of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wis., with offices in the Weinfeld Building on Third street, Wausau, is interested also in the land business and is president of the Wausau Mississippi Timber Company. He was born at Sherwood. Wis., April 4, 1872.

After graduating from the high school at Appleton, Wis., Mr. Weinfeld came to Wausau and started a small news stand, but afterward entered the clothing business, which he subsequently sold when he became interested in land and this interest he has continued as above mentioned. In 1897 he entered first into the life insurance business. In 1911 he was appointed general agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wis., with which he has mainly been identified since embarking in this line of business. For four years-1909, 1910. 1911 and 1912-he led in the United States with the Northwestern Mutual Life, being ahead of every other company, both in total amount of business and also in number of policies. In 1912 he wrote 240 separate policies aggregating a vast amount, averaging $4,400 to each policy. Mr. Weinfeld has invested largely at Wausau and in 1897 erected the handsome pressed brick Weinfeld Build- ing, located at Nos. 307-309 Third street. He is an active citizen where public interests are concerned and is numbered with the representative men here.

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History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and representative citizens, Part 85

Author: Marchetti, Louis. cn Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1042

Author: Marchetti, Louis. cn
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1042