Bio: Hoenig, Daniel Frederick (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 211.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DANIEL FREDERICK HOENIG

DANIEL FREDERICK HOENIG, hardware merchant, Chippewa Falls, was born in Prussia, June 26, 1837. Came with his parents, Andrew and Christiana Hoenig, to Milwaukee in August, 1845; lived there until 1862; he then went to Chicago, where he remained there and in Milwaukee until 1864. April 28, 1864, he came to Chippewa Falls, and was engaged in blacksmithing and wagon making until 1876, when he was elected Sheriff of Chippewa County. He was the first City Marshal of Chippewa Falls. Engaged in hardware business April 15, 1880. Mr. Hoenig was married in Milwaukee, in the Spring of 1862, to Dora Hecht. She was born in Prussia. They have four children—Otto, Albert, Lucy and Dora.