Identifier: wisconsinitsstor05ushe (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin, its story and biography, 1848-1913
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Usher, Ellis Baker, 1852-1931
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ointed to that office by the tax commission in August, 1905, andwas formally elected by the county board of supervisors in 1907. Mr.Wiegand has had his home in the city of Shawano since 1888, and inthe county since 1884. His native place was Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where he was born ona farm July 9, 1860, a son of Carl and Fredericka (Hamann) Wiegand,both natives of Germany. The father, a substantial farmer who diedin 1871, came to America during the decades of the forties and locatedin Wisconsin in 1848, the year in which the territory became a state.His home was in Manitowoc county. The mother preceded her hus-band to Manitowoc county by a few months. She had married inGermany Mr. Mortz Mavis, who died soon after they settled in Wis-consin, and she then married Mr. Wiegand. Her death occurred in1895. Otto O. Wiegand spent his boyhood on the home farm inManitowoc county, getting his education in the country schools, andalso attending the Oshkosh Normal. His educational equipment fitted
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN 1129 him for work as a teacher, and he was thus engaged for three years inManitowoc county and one year in Shawano county. During his resi-dence in Manitowoc county, he acquired an interest in a cheese factoryand in 1884 moved to Shawano county to establish a cheese factoryin the town of Washington. That venture did not prove a success,and was abandoned after two seasons. For two seasons following Mr.Wiegand conducted a sawmill and taught school one winter. Mov-ing into the city of Shawano he bought an interest in the ShawanoCounty Advocate, one of the well known local newspapers, and wasidentified with its management and editorial control for ten years.Selling out he went into the telephone business, establishing an inde-pendent line in Shawano county. He was manager of the Independ-ent Company for two years, at the end of which time he sold out andresumed the management of the Advocate for Mr. M. J. Wallrich. Ayear later he went into the canning business, and wa

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