Bio: Harger, Charles W. (1842 - 19??)

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Surnames: Harger, Scholfield, Diamond, Hart

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

Harger, Charles W. (11 September 1842 - 19??)

Charles W. Harger, who is vice president of the Marathon County Bank, at Wausau, Wis., has been identified with this solid financial institution for thirty-eight years, was one of its organizers, has ever since been an official and so closely has been connected with its affairs that the bank's history and his own are of the same woof and web. Mr. Harger was born at Stone Mills, Jefferson County, N. Y. September 11, 1842, and is a son of Wilson H. and Amy M. Harger. The father was a merchant but died too early to have accumulated a fortune in business.

In his native state Charles W. Harger attended the public schools. Being early deprived of a father's advice and practical assistance, Mr. Harger started out for himself when seventeen years of age and in 1859 came to Wisconsin, finding plenty of employment here, but in those days it was mainly of a rough sort to which the son of an eastern merchant had not been inured. In the course of time he began training for a railroad career, becoming first a fireman, and for several years was an engineer and then circumstances led to his becoming interested in a woolen mill at Watertown, Wis. It was from there that Mr. Harger came to Wausau, where, with other men of capital, he organized the Marathon County Bank, which opened for business on January 1, 1875 and he became its cashier, in which, office he continued until elected vice president. Mr. Harger's integrity is one of the bank's assets and its long continued and still increasing prosperity, may, in some measure, be attributed to his care, interest and advice, he devoting all his time to this business.

Mr. Harger married Miss Kate M. Scholfield, of Wausau, Wis., and they have four children: Anna Gertrude, who is the wife of George E. Diamond, of Colorado; Mary S., who is gifted with unusual musical talent, is an instructor in music at Boston, Mass.; Imogene, who is the wife of W. J. Hart, of Seattle, Wash.; and Constance V., who is well known in social circles in this city.