Bio: Juers, Henry (1850 - 19??)

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Surnames: Juers, Curtis, Yale, Behnke, Morrette

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

Juers, Henry (15 December 1850 - 19??)

Henry Juers who is one of Wausau's justly popular officials and is serving in his fifth term as city treasurer, has been a resident of Wausau, Wis., since 1882. He was born December 15, 1850, in Germany, and is a son of Matthew and D. Juers, both of whom died in his boyhood.

Henry Juers grew to manhood in his native land and there learned the carpenter trade and after reaching the United States in 1879, settled first at Clinton, Ia. In 1882 he reached Wausau and finding here satisfactory business conditions decided to make this city his permanent home and during the succeeding years, as a good citizen, has done his part in bringing about its present prosperity. For twenty-one years he was foreman in the Curtis & Yale Company's mill, in the meanwhile making judicious investments for him, and is now vice president of the Wausau Ice and Fuel Company. Intelligent and public spirited, Mr. Juers has always been active as a citizen and his own city ward, the Seventh, has many admirers and supporters. He served one term as supervisor of the ward and for four years was alderman of the Seventh Ward. However, while carefully guarding the interests of his own part of the city he secured the confidence of those who lived in other sections and this resulted in his election to the office of city treasurer. He served three terms of two years each, elected on the Republican ticket, but his fourth and fifth elections came to him on the non-partisan ticket, which may be construed as a proof of real efficiency.

Mr. Juers married Miss Henrietta Behnke, in 1878, in Germany, and they have five children: Charles L., Emil R., Richard F., Martha D. and Otto, Martha D. being the wife of L. Morrette. Mr. Juers is a man of social instincts and takes an interest in outdoor sports and belongs to the order of Druids, of which he is a trustee, and also to the Wausau Shooting Society, and has been a member for thirty years of the Deutsche Arbeiter Untersinetzung Verein.