----Source: 1881 HISTORY OF NORTHERN WI, Chicago: The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor (grammar as is), Pg. 248

G. C. REUL, foreman in C. C. Washburn's shingle mill, P.O. Hixon, was born in Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin, Jan. 10, 1852. His father was a lumberman and had a sash and door factory. Moving to Dane County, working in the factory most of the time, up to 1869, he then went to Baraboo, and in 1873, opened sash and door factory run by Real Brothers. In 1874, he was working in a mill in Rockford, Ill. in 1875, went to La Crosse, and worked with George Pierce, and family for C. C. Washburn Fall of 1880, came here built the shingle mill, which has a capacity of 80,000 per day. In 1874, he married Miss F. C. Royce, of Litchfield, Minn. They have one child, George. Mr. Real is a member of Baraboo Masonic lodge.