Message #: |
787 |
Date Posted: |
11-01-2001 |
Bio: |
Huntzicker, Henry (History - 1833) |
Contact: |
Volunteer |
Email: |
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org |
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HUNTZICKER WATENPHULL |
"Biographical History of Clark &
Jackson Counties, WI," Lewis pub. co., 1891 pg. 361-362:
HENRY HUNTZICKER, a farmer and stock-raiser
of Eaton Township, Clark County, was born in Alsace, France,
November 8, 1833, the son of Frederick (deceased), a nativde of the
same province. Emigrating to the United States in 1853, he was
first employed in woolen factories at Wolcottville, Connecticut,
and Plymouth same State, until 1856, when he came to this county.
The first year here he was employed by a man named Conrad in
clearing a tract of land in Weston Township and he also worked
several winters in the pineries. He settled upon his present farm
of 280 acres in 1862 it was then all in heavy timber 100 acres is
now cleared. A portion of his livestock consists of Cotswold sheep
and graded short-horn cattle. His brother George, of Neillsville,
settled near him at the same time, and two years later his brother
Jacob, who died June 7, 1888.
December 18, 1864, is the date of Mr. Huntzicker's marriage to Mary
E. Watenphull, deceased she was born in Prussia, January 29, 1846.
The children are John Henry, born January 1, 1867 Jacob William,
November 6, 1871 Albion C., May 3, 1874 Clara M., July 3, 1876, and
Robert C., May 23, 1881. One son, Elmer F., was scalded to death
when three years old by falling in a pail of hot water. John H.
married Miss Maria, daughter of John Nichol, of Eaton Township, and
lives with his father, the subject of this sketch, carrying on a
cheese factory. Frederick Huntzicker, the father, had seven
children, four of whom are living. John is living on Long Island,
New York, and Frederick is living in Alsace. Mrs. Huntzicker's
parents had twelve children, six of each sex eight are living:
besides Mrs. Huntzicker, there are William, Adam, Henry, Philip,
Katie, Anna and Julia. Their father died in Jackson County,
Wisconsin, in December, 1883, where he had settled in 1867. The
parents emigrated from Prussia to Washington County, Wisconsin, in
1846, when Mrs. Huntzicker was six months old, and they settled in
the woods about thirty miles from Milwaukee, in which town they did
their marketing. Mr. Watenphull took his produce to that place in
an ox wagon, requiring three days each way to make the journey.
The subject of this sketch has been a member of the Township Board,
and Chairman of the same at two different times was Township
Treasurer six years and member of the School Board for sixteen or
eighteen years. In politics he is independent. He and his wife are
Lutherans in religious faith, but they attend the Presbyterian
Church, as there is no Lutheran Church near.
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