Bio: Regner, Frank Patrick (1877 - 19??)

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Surnames: Regner, Ringle, Detling, Miller

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

Regner, Frank Patrick (13 September 1877 - 19??)

Frank Patrick Regner, attorney at law and a member of the well known law firm of Regner & Ringle, of Wausau, was born at West Bend, Washington County, Wis., September 13, 1877, and is a son of Mathew and Barbara (Detling) Regner. Mathew Regner was born in Germany and came to America when he was a boy of fifteen years, having as his objective point. West Bend, Wis. There he engaged in business during his active years and now lives retired, having passed his seventy-second birthday. He married Barbara Detling, who was of German extraction but was born in Washington County, Wis., and she also survives. Of their family of ten children, Frank Patrick was the second born son.

West Bend offered excellent public school advantages when Mr. Regner was a pupil and after completing the High School course he taught school for three years before entering the University of Wisconsin, where he was graduated in the class of 1901, when he came directly to Wausau and became the junior member of the law firm of Miller & Regner, Hon. Carl H. Miller being at the head of the firm. Two years later he entered into his present partnership, with Oscar Louis Ringle, since when the firm name has been Regner & Ringle.  Mr. Regner is a member of the Marathon County Bar Association and at present is city attorney of Wausau and previously served five years as district attorney. In addition to his profession he is interested to some extent in handling real estate. In politics he is a Democrat and both fraternally and socially is identified with leading organizations. Mr. Regner is unmarried.