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and made a good home. Married Miss Mary Naber in 1864; they have seven children-Charley, Eda, Emil, Rudolph, Hermina, August and Mary. Mr. Mann is a Democrat ; has been Chairman of the Town Board three terms, and is now President of the Mayville High School Board ; he is a member in good standing of the Mayville Lodge I. O. O. F., also of Freeman's Society.
WILLIAM MARLING, retired foundryman, Mayville; born in Prussia in 1820; was educated in Prussia, and came to America in 1847 ; spent two years in Albany, N. Y., then lived one year in Sheboygan Co., Wis. ; was one year in Chicago, but returned to Sheboygan and bought a foundry. which he afterward sold ; worked some time in Chicago and Milwaukee foundries. and came to Mayville in 1855 ; with H. Boehmer and others in the foundry until he retired from business in 1878. Married Agatha Boehmer in 1844; they have four children-George W., Frank, Mary and Anna. Mr. M. is a Democrat and a Catholic.
D. NABER, merchant; born in Oldenburg in March 2, 1836; came to America 1851, loeating in Mayville. Began business for himself in I861 ; although he has met with reverses, he has been a very successful business man ; is now doing the largest business in town ; has a complete line of everything except hardware ; he has built up this business since September, 1877, at which time he was worth almost nothing ; he does a strictly cash business, and his sales for week ending Saturday, Sept. 20, 1879, amounted to 81,000 cash. He married Miss Anna Ruedebusch in 1861 ; they have seven children-Matilda, Louisa, Lucy, Oscar, Anna, Della and Adolph. Mr. Naber is a Republican, a member of Mayville Lodge, No. 200, I. O. O. F., and several German societies.
JULIUS NARY, Postmaster of Mayville; born in Germany, 1827; spent his early life and was educated in his native country ; came to America in 1854; lived one year in Milwaukee ; then came to Mayville, where he lived till he enlisted, Aug. 6, 1862, in 20th W. V. I .; was in the battles of Baker's Creek and Champion Hill, through the siege of Vicksburg, and was then transferred to the army of Gen. Banks; Mr. Nary was soon disabled by hard marching, and was transferred to the Invalid Corps : he acted as Steward some time near Lake Ponchartrain, and was honorably discharged Aug. 6, 1865. Was made Postmaster in 1867, and has since held the office, with the exception of eight months ; he is a stanch Republican, and was appointed in a strong Democratic town by almost unanimous request.
E. B. NORTON, farmer, Secs. 25 and 36 ; P. O. Mayville ; born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, July, 14, 1826; removed with his parents to Bartholomew Co., Ind., in 1833; his father was a native of Virginia and a pioneer settler and hunter in Ohio ; his grandfather was born in Alsace, France, and fought under Washington in the Revolution. E. B. Norton settled, in 1848, on a claim in Williamstown, of which elaim he now owns a part ; he had genuine pioneer pluck ; cut the timber and cleared up his farm of 100 acres ; he has the best of buildings and improvements, and is a successful, enterprising farmer .; He married, in 1852, Miss Elizabeth Smith ; they have three children-Adeline, Clara and George. Mr. Norton is a Repub- lican, and has served several terms as Supervisor and Assessor.
BENJAMIN PALMER, farmer ; P. O. Mayville; born in New York City May 20, 1818; was reared to the mercantile business, and came to Mayville in June, 1847, with the first stock of goods in the place ; was in business with a brother eleven years; retired from business and made an extended tour through the West; settled on his present farm of thirty-eight acres in 1858. Mr. Palmer is closely identified with the early history and subsequent growth of Mayville, and is one of its few remaining early settlers ; he is a stanch Republican, and has been twice Chairman of his Democratic township; was also County Commissioner of the Poor under the old law.
F. PAUSTIAN, miller, Mayville ; born in Prussia March 27, 1832 ; spent his early life and was educated in his native country ; came to America, 1856; spent nine years in charge of the mill at Hustis- ford ; bought the Mayville mill, in 1865, which he has almost totally rebuilt ; added two run of stone in 1876, making seven run in all ; he also has a sixty-horse-power engine, and is thus prepared to run at all times ; as he has the only flouring-mill in Mayville, he does a large business. Married in 1860, Miss Sophia Roll ; they have five children-Albert, Anna, Martha, Clara and Paulie. Mr. Paustian is a Republican, and is independent of church or secret orders.
D. PULS, liveryman, farmer, and proprietor of the American House, Mayville ; born in Prussia Dec. 27, 1823; was a brick-maker and distiller, and served three years in the Prussian Army ; came to America in 1848; after one year spent in Watertown, he settled in Mayville ; controlled the distillery three years, then kept the Wisconsin House about fifteen years ; he bought the American House in 1867, also owns two farms of 120 aud seventy-five acres respectively, and two livery stables in the village; he carried the United States mail and express many years; is one of the old settlers of Mayville, and one of its most successful business men. He married, Sept. 10, 1851, Miss Johanna Oehrl; they have six children -Augusta, Alvina, Arthur, Alfred, Amanda and Adolph. Mr. Puls is an earnest Republican in politics.
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JOSEPH QUICK, merchant, Kekoskee; born in Prussia in 1831 ; spent his early life and was educated in Prussia; came to America in 1854; spent one year in Milwaukee, and one year in the Michigan copper mines ; came to Kekoskee in 1856, and worked for the mill company about three years ; worked at anything to which he could turn his hand until 1862, when he begin his present business on a capital of $100 ; he now has a large and complete stock of goods, in value from $4,000 to 86,000; he owns eighty acres of land in Le Roy, his residence, another store building, house and lot, and blacksmith-shop in Kekoskee. Married Miss Elizabeth Kline in 1857 ; they have eight children-Catherine, Frences, Jacob, Eddie, Frank, Clemence, Louis and Rudolph. Mr. Quick is a Republican, and a member of the Cath- olie Church.
EBENEZER RAYMOND, retired farmer, Mayville; born in Windham Co., Vt., Feb. 26, 1804; his parents removed to Berkshire Co., Mass., in 1807 ; here he spent his early life and was edu- cated ; in 1841, he settled in Ohio, and remained in Portage and Cuyahoga Counties until May, 1847, when he settled on heavily timbered Government land in Williamstown ; Mayville consisted of one frame and several log houses, saw-mill, etc .; he had the usual experience of the early settlers-clearing, building, breaking-up land, etc .; he began in debt, and remained on his farm until 1868, when he removed to his pleasant home in Mayville ; in October, 1878, he sold his splendid farm of 100 acres for 86,400; a good showing for his work as a pioneer. Mr. Raymond married Miss Maria Hanson, of Washington Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1832; they have three living children-Rosaltha, Clarissa M. and Charlotte. Mr. Raymond is a Republican, and has served several terms as Assessor, Justice of the Peace, etc .; he is the oldest member, and a regular attendant of Mayville Lodge, No. 200, 1. O. O. F.
AUGUST P. REIBLE, marble dealer, Mayville; born in Alsace, France, Sept. 14, 1839 ; spent his early life and was educated in France; came to America in 1852; lived fifteen years in New York City, where he learned his business ; he traveled in various parts of the United States, and settled in Mayville Nov. 1. 1866; he does the only business of the kind in town, and is prepared to fill any order or anything in his line, and to guarantee satisfaction in price and style of work and stone. In June, 1863, ne married Miss Eliza Royot, of his native country ; they have four living children-Leon, Henrietta, Lillie and a babe. Mr. Reible is in accord with Christianity, and is a stanch Odd Fellow, having joined the Order at 21 years of age.
GEORGE W. ROBERTS, grain and produce dealer, Mayville ; born in the town of Ilubbard, Dodge Co., Wis., Nov. 30, 1851 ; is a son of Vincent Roberts, and has spent his life and been educated in his native county ; was with his father on the farm until 1869, when he began business as a grain and produce dealer in Iron Ridge ; was also a buyer in Blair, Trempeleau Co .; built his Mayville elevator in 1878, and is now doing a large business ; has bought 30,000 bushels of grain during Septem- ber, 1879. He married Miss Clara B. Moody, of Milwaukee, June 28, 1876. Mr. Roberts is a Republican, and a member in good standing of Vesper Lodge, No. 62, A., F. & A. M.
COL. JACOB W. ROBY, farmer, Sec. ; 3, P. O. Kekoskee ; born in Oneida Co., N. Y., July 9, 1824 ; his parents were farmers, and he was educated in the common schools of the county. When about 21, he was made Captain of a boat on the Erie Canal, which position he held until the fall of 1851, when he settled on 130 acres of his present farm; about twenty acres of this were poorly cleared, upon which was a log house; as a result of years of toil and management, the Colonel has 170 acres of well improved, with the best of buildings, is also owner of a 200-acre farm in York Co., Neb. He enlisted Sept. 14, 18GI, with eighty-four men of Dodge Co., and received eighty three votes for Captain, voting himself for J. Adams, of Horicon ; this company was called the Lyon Guards, and was organized with the 10th W. V. 1., as Co. B ; he served as Captain of this company until Sept. 20, 1863, participating in all engagements, including Perryville, where his belt-plate was dented by a rebel bullet, and Stone River, where his right arm was broken by a piece of rebel shell ; in the battle of Chickamauga, Lient. Col. Ely was mortally wounded ; Capt. Roby then took and retained command of the regiment, was afterward commissioned Lieut. Colonel by Gov. Lewis, and commanded the remnant of his heroic regiment at the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge ; was then about two months in com- mand of the post at Tyner's Station, East Tenn. ; the regiment then joined Sberman in his Atlanta Cam- paign and was among the foremost at the battles of Snake Creek Gap, second Buzzard's Roost, Resaca. Dalton, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee and Peach Tree Creek ; in this battle, Col. Roby was ordered to advance from the second line with his regime ' to a certain position, on reaching this position the first line began fighting; here the Colonel's horse was minded; dismounting, he advanced without orders to a position near the first line to protect his men by v. - shelter of a hill, from the erest of which the first line was repulsed. The Colonel tried in vain to stay the mad retreat of this. the 104th Ell. V. I. ; he then, still without orders, ordered a charge on the three rebel regiments, now in full possession of this partly
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entrenched hill, this seemingly reckless dash so surprised the enemy that their fire passed harmlessly over the heads of our boys, the Colonel ordered his first line to fire, which fire broke the rebel lines ; the second fire completed the rout, the Wisconsin boys still pouring a merciless fire upon the flying foe, many of the boys firing twenty or more rounds. This was one of the most wonderful as well as daring feats of the war, as the 10th did not lose a man ; Col. Roby received a shot through his hat and one officer was wounded in the shoulder. The regiment then participated in the siege of Atlanta and the battle of Jones- boro ; after helping to pursue Hood over Sand Mountain, the time of the regiment having more than expired, it returned and was mustered out in Milwaukee, Nov. 3, 1864. The Colonel then retired to his farm, where he now recounts, with pride and pleasure, the exploits of his famous regiment. Among his souvenirs he has a sword presented by his company and one presented by the regiment ; also, a splendid scarf given him by Capt. Donahue, of Co. E, 104th Ill. V. I., whose life was saved by the charge at Peach Tree Creek. The Colonel married Miss Esther C. Moon, of Herkimer Co., N. Y., in 1844. They have five children-George H., Elizabeth C. and Samuel D. (twins), Milton H. and Eugene W. Col. Roby is a Republican in politics.
CHARLES RUEDEBUSCH,, merchant, Mayville; born in Oldenburg May 25, 1832, was educated in his native country and came to America in September, 1847; was clerk in a Charleston (S. C.) grocery store over two years and came to Milwaukee in 1850; after a four-months residence here, he returned to Germany and spent a year; on his return, he lived one year in Milwaukee; removing to Mayville, he began business with H. Naber June 1, 1853 ; the firm did business till 1868 ; they owned a saw-mill, shingle-mill and store in Shawano, Wis., besides the Mayville store; since 1868, Mr. R. has kept a general stock of goods in his present store ; he also owns two farms of forty and eighty acres each, and is proprietor of the Wisconsin White Lime Works; his lime is considered in Chicago the best and strong- est made in the State. Mr. Ruedebusch married Miss Margaret Naber Sept. 5, 1854; they have six children-Ida, Amil, Emma, Bertha, Lima and Charles. Mr. R. is a Republican ; liberal in religion, and a member of several German societies in the village.
HENRY RUEDEBUSCH, farmer, Sees. 27 and 34; P. O. Mayville; born in Prussia in 1835 ; spent his early life and was educated in Prussia; came to America in 1855; worked three years in the Cedarburg mill ; settled in Williamstown and bought eighty acres of land in 1858; he now has 157} acres, with a large stone house, good barns, ete., and has himself made all the improvements. In June, 1860, he married a cousin, Miss Eliza Ruedebusch ; they have nine children-Emma, Lydia, Herman, Anna, Charles. Eliza, Otto, Rhienhold and a girl babe. Mr. Ruedebusch is a Republican. He has four horses, twenty-one sheep, eighteen head of cattle and fourteen hogs.
ADOLPH SAURHERING, M. D., Mayville ; born in Prussia Sept. 11, 1821 ; was edu- cated in Konigsberg University; at the age of 17 he entered a drug store and studied pharmacy ; passed an examination in 1842, remaining one year in the store as head clerk ; he began the study of sur- gery in 1844, and recommenced the study of pharmacy in the fall; he remained till 1846; he then served one year as a volunteer in the Prussian garrison at Spandau ; passed his second examination in 1847, and was honorably discharged from the garrison in the same year; he then resumed his study of pharmacy, and has since devoted his whole life to the study and practice of medicine; studied under a private tutor and won his certificate in 1850; resolved to seek a broader field for practice, he landed at New York in August, 1850; spent one month in Milwaukee and settled in Mayville Nov. 1, 1850 ; he found four physicians in the place and was first supported by the Americans; he kept steadily at work, and as a result now has a ride extending from Rubicon to Oakfield and from the Horicon marsh into Wash- ington Co .; during the first five months, he traveled on foot, frequently walking forty miles per day ; in 1853, his practice required the use of two horses ; since 1854, he has constantly used three horses ; owing to new, rough roads, he rode horseback during a great part of the first five years; was the unsuccessful owner of a saw-mill about six months in Le Roy ; disabled by overwork, the Doctor practiced but little during 1868-69 ; he has traveled on an average sinee 1853, forty miles per day, 14,600 miles per year, and more than thirteen times round the world ; he has averaged fifty miles per day during 1879, and often rides twenty hours per day for a fortnight; he has, by the use of six horses, ridden 120 miles per day for five successive days ; the Doctor has the endurance of a white bear. He has been a Mason since 1854, and belongs to Aurora Lodge, Milwaukee. In polities, a Democrat; he was Town Clerk in 1858. He owns a farm of 280 aeres adjoining Mayville, where he has a pleasant home. The Doctor has eight living children.
RUDOLPH SAURHERING, druggist, Mayville; born in Prussia Dee. 15, 1823; was educated in Konigsberg University; was in the 5th Prussian Regiment, Dantzie, about two years, and was discharged in 1847; was called out, and fought through the Revolution of 1848; when war was threat- ened between Austria and Prussia, in 1850, he again served several months; came to America and to
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Mayville in the fall of 1851 ; was with his brother Adolf, in a drug store, and learned the business of him; was about one year in a store at Iron Ridge, and was in the Le Roy saw-mill with his brother. In June, 1856, he began his present business, and has steadily increased it; has a large stock of drugs, paints and oils, books, stationery, wall-paper, etc. Dec. 15, 1858, he married Miss Henrietta Hartwig; they have five children-Huldah, Edward, Rudolph, Hartha and Richard. Mr. Saurhering is a Republican, and has been Postmaster, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, School Treasurer, Justice of the Peace, and is now School Clerk; was United States Gauger, from 1870, till the office was abolished; he is a member in good standing of Vesper Lodge and Horicon Chapter A., F. & A. M.
GEORGE SCHAUMBERG. proprietor of the Main street meat-market, Mayville; boru in Germintown, Washington Co., Wis., Aug. 14, 1857; has spent his life, and been educated in Wis- consin; he lived four years in Milwaukee, where he learned his business; opened a shop in Theresa in 1877; Aug. 1 ,1879, he began in Mayville, and has done a good business, as he has a central location. He married, Sept. 18, 1878, Miss Sophia Albrecht. Mr. Schaumberg is in politics a Democrat ; he is one of the youngest and most successful of the business men of Mayville.
AUGUST SCHELLPFEFFER, farmer, Sees. 12 and 13; P. O. Mayville; born in Prussia July 8, 1826; spent his early life and was educated in his native country; was in the Prussian Army three and a half years; came to America and to Dodge Co. in 1852; began here as a farm laborer. and, in 1854, he bought 40 acres; he now has 240 acres of well-improved land, and has a third-interest with the Mayville Brewing Co .; this may be fairly called a good record for a man who began as he did. lle married Miss Theresa Wolter Jan. 9, 1858; they have three children-Henry, Bertha and August. Mr. Schellpfeffer is a Democrat; has been Chairman and Assessor, and is now President of the town insurance company. lle is a Lutheran in religious belief.
FREDERICK SCHELLPFEFFER, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Mayville; born in Prussia, Aug. 26, 1828; spent his early life and was educated in Prussia, and was in the Prussian Army three years; came to America and to Dodge Co. in 1853; worked as a farm hand, and used to get $6 per month in harvest; settled on forty acres of timbered land in 1856; he worked hard, and chopped ont a farm of 110 acres, with good improvements. He married Miss Anna Keile in 1855; they have eight children-Frederick, Henry, Amelia, Charles, Emma, August, Louisa and Clara. Mr. Schellpfeffer is a Democrat, and has been Supervisor twice; is a member of the Lutheran Church of Mayville.
JAMES SCOULAR, furnaceman, Mayville ; born in Sterlingshire, Scotland, March 29, 1824; was educated and learned his business in his native land ; came to America in 1850; lived two years in Portage, Wis .; was two years in Indiana with the N .- W. Iron Co .; came to Mayville and worked two years for the same Company, under J. White; was then placed in charge of the furnace, which position he hold until the Company shut down the works in 1875; has since resided in the village. Married Miss Elizabeth Duncan in 1854; they have six children-Isabella, Alexander, John, Jennie, George and William. Mr. Scoular is a Republican.
HENRY SPIERING, farmer and insurance agent, Mayville ; born in Prussia July 7, 1831 ; spent his school-boy days in Prussia, and came to America in 1846; lived three years in Milwaukee, where he attended school; settled in Mayville in 1849; here he worked four years as a tailor ; has been a land-owner during a great part of his residence in Wisconsin ; is a loyal Democrat, and has creditably filled many offices ; was first made Constable and Deputy Sheriff, and has been President of the Village Board, a member of the County Board, Chairman of the Town Board, Town Treasurer, Village Clerk, etc .; elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in 1878; Mr. Spiering founded the Dodge County Pioneer, March, 1876. Married Miss Augusta Sprenger in 1862; they have eight children-Ida, Adrienna, Wilhelmina, Henry, Bertha, Ottilia, William and Rudolph. Mr. S. is a member of the Lutheran Church.
CÆSAR SPILLCKE, photographer, Mayville ; born in Hamburg April 12, 1849; here for a time he was clerk in a large wholesale house ; came to America in May, 1867; spent one year in Manistee, Mich., and three years in Calumet Co., Wis .; settled in Mayville in May, 1871 ; was employed as clerk, etc., about two years ; began the study of photography with E. H. Wille, Mayville, and learned the art of J. Byam, of Fond du Lac, and Charles Folquarts, now of Greenbush, Wis .; has since followed his chosen profession with good success, and has the only business of the kind in Mayville. Married Miss Pauline Muller, of Mayville, Nov. 30, 1871; they have four children-Selma, Olga, Agnes and t'ecilia. Mr. Spilleke is a lover and student of music, playing several instruments with skill; has been leader of the Mayville brass band about four years ; he is a member of the Mayville Turners' Society.
JACOB ST. JOHN, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Mayville ; born in Fayette Co., Penu., Nov. 9, 1812 ; came with his parents to Ohio at the age of 7, and remained until 1852, when he removed to
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Green Co., Wis .; settled in Dodge County in 1853, on the farm now owned by Mr. Hoffman; this farm he eleared and improved ; located on his present farm of ninety-eight acres in April, 1867. Married Miss Ann Smith in 1837 ; they have eleven living children-Calvin, Cyrus, William, Aleinda, Amanda, John, Hannah, Jacob, Perry, Mary and Clarence. Mr. St. John is a stanch Democrat, and has been Assessor, Supervisor and Chairman several terms. Albert St. John died in the Union army.
WILLIAM R. ST. JOHN, Principal of the Mayville High School ; born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Sept. 8, 1842; came to Green Co., Wis., with his parents, when quite young ; after one year they removed to Dodge Co., where they have since lived; Mr. St. John attended the Mayville and Horicon High Schools, and began as a teacher at 20; was one term in the Oshkosh Normal School, and has taught constantly since ; was appointed Principal of the Mayville School in 1869, which position he now holds ; he has probably taught a greater number of terms in the county than any resident in it. Married Miss Isabel Scoular, of Mayville, Aug. 2, 1875; they have one daughter-Jennie. Mr. St. John is a Demo- crat, and a member of Vesper Lodge. A., F. & A. M.
FREDERICK STOCK, teacher of German, Mayville High School ; born in Prussia Ang. 29, 1826 ; came to America, when 13 years of age, with his parents, locating in Buffalo, N Y., where he attended school; came to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1843, and resided till 1851 in Ozaukee Co. as a teacher ; he then went to Baltimore, Md., and taught German about five years ; returning to Milwaukee, he taught in the Engleman School uutil 1861 ; then taught in the Sixth Ward School two years; settled in May- ville, January, 1863, and taught German in the village till 1872, when he removed to Oshkosh, Wis .; after teaching in that eity about four years, he returned to Mayville. Mr. Stock has led a busy and useful life as a teacher. Oet. 12, 1849, he married Miss Wilhelmina Milbrath, a native of Prussia, and a Wisconsin pioneer of 1839 ; they have six living children-Amelia, Henrietta, Augusta, Amil, William and Julius. Mr. Stock was born and bred a Lutheran, but is now liberal in religion.
J. N. TIDYMAN, dealer in lumber, grain and produce, Mayville; born in Liverpool, Eng., in 1833; came to Ameriea in 1844, and lived twenty years in Dodge Co. as a farmer ; he has seen his share of pioneer life. Enlisted in the fall of 1861 in 10th W. V. I .; was in battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Peach Tree Creek, Dallas, and fought with Sherman to Atlanta ; the regiment served its time, and returned November, 1864 ; Mr. Tidyman was wounded at the great battle of Chickamauga ; was three months in hospital, but recovered in time to do good service. Mr. Tidyman is a mason by trade ; he began business in Mayville in 1876 ; has a steam elevator, and the only lumber-yard in town ; is doing a large business, having bought 35,000 bushels of grain in September, 1879. Married Miss Elnora Corey in 1865 ; they have four children-Maggie, Lulu, Mand and William. Mr. Tidyman is a Republican, and has been member of the Village Board. He is a member in good standing of Vesper Lodge, A., F. & A. M., also of Mayville Lodge, 1. O. O. F.
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