Bio: Weissexborn, Charles
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 220.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CHARLES WEISSEXBORN

CHARLES WEISSEXBORN, Chippewa Falls, was born in Prussia, Aug. 28, 1838, and came to America in 1867, locating in Winona, Minn., in the Fall of that year, and remaining eight months. He then went to Eau Claire, where he resided three years. He then engaged in the grocery and liquor business, in Augusta, for seven and a half years, and in running a hotel in Sauk City for two years and a half. He came to Chippewa Falls in November, 1880. He was married in Sauk City, Oct. 24, 1870, to Louisa Speer, who was born in Sauk City in 1853. They have three children living—Henry Hermann, Julius Robert and Hermina Bertha; and have lost two children — Charles Edward, who died at the age of eleven months, and Leo, eight days old at his death. Mr. Weissenborn is a member of the A. O. U. W., and of the German Singing Society.