Price County, Wisconsin
Biographies
Price County, Wisconsin
Biographies
J. M. Adams
Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 573; submitted by Marla Zwakman
J. M. ADAMS, physician and surgeon, Spencer, born in New York, June 12, 1865. The family moved to Wisconsin in the same year, first to Sheboygan Falls and then to Fond du Lac, where he remained and began studying medicine, under the medical firm of Wyatt & Gray. He went into practice in the Fall of 1877; then went to Medford, in Taylor County, where he remained during the Summer, spending the Winter in Phillips, Price County. He then went to Negaunee, Mich., and afterward attended Wooster Medical College, at Cleveland. Returning, he practiced in Medford and Phillips again, and then went to Dakota. In 1879, came to Spencer, where he practiced till 1880, when he went to Keokuk, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons there. Returned to Spencer in 1881, and resumed his practice. He has certificate for specialties on eye and ear, another on chemistry and analysis of the urine, also on anatomy and practice.
A. Alexander
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 (Price County) page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
A, Alexander, saloon, Phillips, was born in Dane Co., Wis., July 12, 1851. In 1868, he went to Sauk County, then to Monroe County, and later came to Stevens Point. He came to Worcester in 1876. He came to Phillips in 1877, where he has done business since. In 1877, he married Miss Jennie Cleveland, of Woodstock, Ill.
M. Barry
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 (Price County) page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
M. Barry, attorney at law, Phillips, was born in Queenstown, Ireland, July, 4, 1846; received a common school education and emigrated to the United States in Fall of 1867. He stayed for a short time at West Randolph, Mass., when he engaged in the boot and shoe business. He moved to Montello, Marquette Co., Wis., in Spring of 1868, where he remained for about one year; from thence, moved to Bloomfield, Waushara Co., to engage in book-keeping; remained at this point about nine months, when he moved to Fremont, Waupaca Co., and remained there until the Fall of 1877. During his stay in the latter place, following various pursuits, principally, book-keeping; held the office of Justice of the Peace, and was elected Town Chairman in Spring of 1877. In the Fall of 1877, moved to Portage County, to engage in book-keeping; there he stayed until February, 1879, when he moved to his present location, for the purpose of opening a law office, having been admitted to the Bar the previous January. Has held various local offices; was Deputy County Clerk during the first term of that office in the county, and is now Deputy County Treasurer, which position he conducts in connection with his professional business.
N. C. & Jennie A. Bailey - Divorce
Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn.) 25 Apr. 1901; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
N. C. Bailey, of Fifty-fourth avenue West and a filer at the Merrill & Ring mill, has filed a suit for divorce from Jennie A. Bailey on statutory grounds. They were married ten years ago in Park Falls, Wis.
W. H. Briggs
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 (Price County) page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
W.H. Briggs, lumberman, Phillips, was born in Manson, Piscataquis Co., Maine, Aug. 21, 1848. He was with his parents in Illinois in ’56, and then in Hortonville. His father was in the store, mill and farming business. He worked in a grist-mill, and in the woods, at times up to the time of his first coming to Phillips, having been on Elk Lake in 1869, locating pine timber. In his business of locating land, he came to where Worcester now stands in 1873, from there to Phillips in 1876, where he first worked at carpenter work, and in the Winter of ’80 and ’81, began lumbering. He also deals in real estate and pine lands, he being surveyor and practical woodsman.
Walter Brown
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 (Price County) page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
Walter Brown, dealer in pine lands, Phillips, was born on Fox Island, Maine, June 1, 1850; came with his parents to Columbia Co., Wis., in 1855. His father was a seaman and captain, but came West and settles on a farm; Walter attended school here , and when fifteen years of age went into the woods, and as woodsman, has traveled over most of the timbered counties of the State. Came to Price County in 1876, and located in Phillips, as dealer in pine lands; in 1879 was appointed Register of Deeds. In 1880, he married Miss Johanna Muir, of Portage City. He is a member of Temple of Honor, and belongs to the Baptist Church.
Henry & Ethel Gluesing - Divorce
Source: Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn.) 19 Aug. 1913; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
VIRGINIA, Aug. 18. – Mrs. Ethel Gluesing has filed divorce papers in district court against her husband, Henry Gluesing. They were married in Park Falls, Wis., in August, 1911, according to the summons filed with the clerk of the district court.
W. D. Gumaer
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 (Price County) page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
W.D. Gumaer, real estate and pine land agent, Phillips, was born in Fairfax Co., West Virginia, May 16, 1848. His parents came to Wisconsin in 1849, locating in Winnebago County, and establishing a trading post at Menomonee; they remained there till 1860, when they went to Juneau County. In 1873, he left home and went on to the Big Suamico, and took charge of an office as shipping clerk. In November, 1857, moved to Phillips, taking contract for right of way. He was one of the first Side Board elected; he was County Surveyor, and, in 1880, was elected Register of Deeds. In December, 1873, he married Miss A. Howard, of Juneau, and they have three children- Prucilla, Richard, and an infant.
Edward Francis Haebig
Edward Francis Haebig was born in this city, June 16, 1883. The place of his birth was a log house on the site now occupied by the Schreiber Building, on South Central Avenue. Finishing St. John’s School at the age of 14, he worked in the carving department of the Upham Factory for four months, in the Lawrence Nick Fruit Store on the site of the present Vienna Bakery for six months, and in the Sam Miller Fruit Store, now Weber Brothers No. 1 Store, one year. Next he was with the Kraus and Kraus General Store on the site now occupied by Krasin Brothers Wallpaper and Paint Store, as a clerk and deliveryman. Mr. Haebig remained with this store three and one-half years, after which he did passenger braking on the Princeton Branch of the Northwestern Line for seven months. Returning to store work, he spent eight years as a salesman in the H. C. Koenig Store, in the building now housing the Weber Brothers No. 3 Store. In 1909 he moved to Park Falls, and after following his trade there two and one-half years, and one year in Medford, he conducted a general store in partnership with George Kreutzer at Athens for six years. Retiring from the Athens firm, he managed a store in Wausau five and one-half years, and then entered the employ of the Consumers Store in this city four years ago.
Fraternally, Mr. Haebig is affiliated with St. John’s Court No. 506, Catholic Order of Foresters and Marshfield Assembly No. 34, Equitable Fraternal Union. In the former he holds the office of senior conductor, in the latter the office of secretary.
Mr. Haebig was married to Miss Mary Schmidt, daughter of Peter Schmidt, Colby, by Father William Reding, Wisconsin Rapids, in the Colby Catholic church, September 11, 1906. Her mother passed away five years ago. Mr. Haebig’s mother is Mrs. J. B. Haebig, North Central Avenue. His father passed away ten years ago. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Haebig are: Francis 21, Alphonse 20, Joan 19, Matthew 11, Bernard 7 and Robert 5.
Politically, he is Independent. His hobbies are fishing and motoring. [Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) 13 Nov. 1928; transcribed by Marla Zwakman]
Hand, Willis (1881)
Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (1881), page 766; transcribed by Sandra Wright
Willis Hand, lawyer and County Judge, Phillips, was born in Columbia Co., Wis., May 1, 1849. He was raised on the farm, and, when old enough, he attended common school. In 1866, he went to the Baraboo High School, afterward the Normal School of White Water, and commenced the study of law. In 1873, he entered the State University, and graduated from the law department in 1874. The Winter of 1874-5, he read in the office of J.B. Taylor, and then went to Neillsville, Clark Co., and practiced law till 1877, when he came to Phillips. He opened a law office, and when the county was organized, he received the appointment of County Judge from Gov. Smith. In 1878, he married Miss Mary E. Muir, of Portage County. They have one child, Wheeler G. Judge Hand belongs to the Temple of Honor and to the I.O.O.F., of Neillsville. He and his wife are church members. His father, J.F. Hand, now Postmaster here, was a member of the Assembly in 1864-5, from the Second District, of Columbia County, and has held other offices of town and county. He has also been a church member for fifty years, and a Son of Temperance sixteen.
Edward Alfred Mews
Edward Alfred Mews, Route 5, Marshfield, son of Mrs. Albert Mews, Auburndale, was born in Chippewa Falls, November 5, 1895. When he was two years old his parents moved to a farm three miles northwest of Auburndale. His father died 21 years ago. He attended the public school in the community of his birth, and the Lutheran school in the village of Auburndale. During the first three years after leaving school, he followed farmwork in the towns of Auburndale, Marshfield, and near Shawano. After that he worked in the Wolf River Paper Company’s mill in Shawano, as a papercutting machine operator for two years; in the shipping department of the Curtis and Yale Factory in Wausau as a door-checker for eight months; and in the North Dakota harvest fields and the Wisconsin logging woods near Mellen, Park Falls, and Ladysmith three years. Following that he operated a dray line in Minneapolis two years. He enrolled in the army in September 1917, and was assigned to the machine-gun corps, and served in this branch of the army 18 months; six months of which were spent in England and France. He ranked as corporal during the greater part of his army life. Returning home after the war, he began farming. He has since been engaged in that work, during the first seven years on land of his own, three miles northwest of Auburndale; and the last two years on a rented farm, three and one-half miles east of this city.
Mr. Mews was married to Miss Frieda Wendt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wendt, town of Marshfield, by the Reverend L. Th. Thom, in the parsonage of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, on May 18, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Mews have five children: Verna 6, Ruth 5, Ethel 4, Edward 2 and Delores 1. In politics he is Independent. His hobby is motoring. [Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) 7 Nov. 1928; transcribed by Marla Zwakman]
Mrs. Chester Sheldon - death of brother
Mrs. Chester Sheldon received the sad news, Tuesday, of the death of her brother who died at Manitowoc. The remains were taken to Ogema, Wednesday. [Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) Thursday, 13 Feb. 1913; transcribed by Marla Zwakman]
Helen F. Thompson
Helen Thompson was born in Manawa. After a career as a teacher, she ran a hotel and was elected to the Park Falls School Board for more than a dozen years. Her civic involvement included a position as president of the Red Cross during World War I.
In 1924, Thompson was one of the first three women elected to the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1924 and was reelected in 1926. A Republican like most Wisconsinites, she represented Price County, a forested area south of Lake Superior. [source unknown, submitted by Marla Zwakman]
Samuel Howard Winch
Samuel Howard Winch, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Winch, was born in this city December 26, 1870, and has made his home here since, with the exception of ten years spent in Park Falls and Athens, Wisconsin; and Cambridge, Ohio. The house at the southwest corner of Walnut and Third Streets, recently remodeled into the parsonage of the new Christ Lutheran Church, is where he was born.
Graduating from the local high school in 1899 and supplementing this training with two years in the University of Wisconsin and the Boyles’ Business College at Wausau, he became associated with his father as a bookkeeper in the Slack Barrel Stock Manufacturing Business. At first working a few months at the local plant, know as the Marshfield Stave Company, and later at the plants in Park Falls and Athens, known as the E. E. Winch and Company. After the sale of the Park Falls plant, he went on duty in the office of the Athens plant. In 1912, following the sale of the Athens plant, he returned to this city and served at the local factory until it was discontinued in 1920. This plant was later sold to the Marshfield Manufacturing Company, makers of beekeepers’ supplies. Since the stave company went out of business, Mr. Winch, has busied himself as the district manager of the Winona Oil Company and as a salesman to electrical appliance concerns.
Mr. Winch was elected as alderman of the Fifth Ward in April, 1928. His shift to the Seventh Ward resulted when the city was redistricted to increase the number of wards from six to eight. He is the chairman of the council finance committee and a member of the board of health.
He was married to Miss Ruby Margaret Riggs at the home of her parents in Cambridge, Ohio, June 22, 1904. They have three children: Eli Eugene 23, Elenor Orpha 20 and Samuel Riggs 14. The nuptial ceremony was performed by the Reverend C. V. Mulligan, a Presbyterian minister.
Fraternally, he is a past master of the Marshfield Masonic Blue Lodge and a member of the Marshfield Chapter Masons and the Neillsville Knight Templars. He also is affiliated with the local Elks and the United Commercial Travelers. Politically, Mr. Winch is a progressive Republican. His hobbies are motoring and fishing. [Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) 13 Feb. 1929; transcribed by Marla Zwakman]
