Bio: Dehlinger, Carl N. (1877 - 19??)

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Surnames: Dehlinger, Meyer, Hartwig, Kumba, Hess

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

Dehlinger, Carl N. (7 January 1877 - 19??)

Carl N. Dehlinger, general blacksmith and carriage repairer, a specialist in horseshoeing and an inventor of more than ordinary merit, has been a resident of Wausau for the past eleven years. He was born on a farm in the town of Sharon, Portage County, Wis., January 7, 1877, and is a. son of Nicholas and Regina (Meyer) Dehlinger.

Carl N. Dehlinger was reared on the home farm but his tastes and talents soon showed that nature had intended him for a mechanic and as soon as his father could spare him he went to Nelsonville, Wis., and there worked in a blacksmith shop for six months and for three months more at Stevens Point. He then went back to the home farm and ran a blacksmith shop there for three years and then came first to Wausau. One year later he accepted a shop position at Merrill and worked there for seven months, afterward going to Rockford, Ill., where he worked at his trade six months longer and then came back to Wausau, where for one year he was in the employ of Herman Hartwig, whom he bought out in September, 1909. Being a skillful workman and very obliging Mr. Dehlinger enjoys about as much patronage as he can handle but he finds time also to perfect many inventions, the ideas for which come to him while working at his forge. He has secured patents for the following useful articles: a stone picker and a carpet stretcher which may also be utilized for stretching wire for fences, and others, equally practical.

Dr. Dehlinger was married first to Miss Rosie Kumba, who died in 1904, his second marriage being to Miss Ida Hess. They have three children: Ruth, Arthur and Lucile. Mr. Dehlinger is a member of St. James' Catholic Church and belongs to St. Joseph's Society and also to the fraternal order of Owls.