Bio: Lemke, Edward W. (1865 - 19??)

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Surnames: Lemke, Seymour, Hussong

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Lemke, Edward W. (18 April 1865 - 19??)

Edward W. Lemke, carpenter, contractor, and also carriage painter, with residence and office at No. 521 Jackson street, Wausau, is a very well known citizen and is serving in his second term as a member of the city council, representing the Second Ward, of which he has been a resident his entire life. He was born at Wausau, April 18, 1865, and is a son of August and Caroline (Seymour) Lemke. The parents of Mr. Lemke were born and reared in Germany and when they came to the United States both located at Watertown, Wis., where they soon after were married and one year later came to Wausau. August Lemke was a wagon-maker by trade and all his sons were instructed by him in his own shop which stood on Washington Street across from the City Hall, the public library board now owning the ground.  

Edward W. Lemke attended the public schools through boyhood and then learned carriage painting under his father and still later learned the carpenter trade, following the same for a number of years and then going into contracting. As he grew up he was identified with the movements which have contributed to the development of his native city, and for twenty-two years was a member of the old volunteer fire department.

In 1894 Mr. Lemke was married at Wausau to Miss Mary Hussong and they have had six children to grow up, while two, Howard and Viola, died young. The others are: Lida, Myrtle, Edward, Lucile, Georgette and Dorothy. In politics Mr. Lemke is a Democrat but has cared little for public office, although, as an alderman, he has given extreme satisfaction to his ward. He belongs to the fraternal order of Woodmen of America.