Bio: Schubring, Fred, Jr. (1868 - 19??)

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Surnames: Schubring, Venteke, Heinemann, Lotz, Bopf

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

Schubring, Fred, Jr. (17 March 1868 - 19??)

Fred Schubring, Jr., who has been identified with the lumber industry almost his entire business life, is president of the F. Schubring Lumber Company, of Wausau, Wis., which was established in 1906. He was born March 17, 1868, in the town of Wausau, Marathon County, Wis., and is a son of Fred and Amelia (Venteke) Schubring. The father came to Wisconsin from Germany in 1866 and was a farmer all his active life.

Until he was twenty years of age the younger Fred Schubring remained with his father on the home farm and during these years had secured a public school education. He embarked first in the lumber business in the town of Hamburg, in 1897, where he operated a small saw mill for four years. After he sold that property he engaged with the B. Heinemann Lumber Company, which subsequently organized the Eau Claire Mill Company, with headquarters at Wausau, and of this Mr. Schubring became president; this company operated a mill in the town of Ackley, in Langlade County. After disposing of his interests there Mr. Schubring became connected with his present concern at Wausau, which was incorporated April 23, 1909, with a capital of $40,000, its officers being: Fred Schubring, president and treasurer; Mrs. Fred Schubring, vice president, and Carl Lotz, secretary. The business is one of large importance here and employment is afforded eighty men.

On October 25, 1894, Mr. Schubring was united in marriage with Miss Louise Bopf, and they have two children: Arthur and Elta. The family belongs to St. Paul's Evangelical Church.