Bio: Merklein, Carl (1868 - 19??)

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Surnames: Merklein, Miller

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

Merklein, Carl (18 December 1868 - 19??)

Carl Merklein, who conducts a first class meat market at No. 524 Scott Street, Wausau, is well known in this line to a large circle of well satisfied customers. He was born at Wausau. December 18, 1868, and is a son of John and Caroline (Merklein) Merklein.

John Merklein was a highly respected citizen and well known business man of this city for many years. He came here early in the sixties and established a butcher shop on Jackson Street and continued in the meat business during his entire active life, his death occurring July 5, 1906. His widow, who, like himself, was born in Germany, yet survives and continues to reside at Wausau.

Carl Merklein had the excellent educational opportunities offered by the public schools of Wausau. He began almost in boyhood to give his father material assistance in the butcher shop and then learned the business in a thoroughly practical way. For three years he was associated in business with his brother John Merklein at his present stand, but they sold out to a Mr. Steinke of Merrill, Wis., but later Carl Merklein repurchased and began business on April 1, 1909. Mr. Merklein rents a slaughter house in the town of Weston near Scholfield. He is a careful buyer of cattle and gives his customers the very best that is in the market.

Mr. Merklein married Miss Amelia Miller, a daughter of John Miller of Wausau, and they have two children: Marie and Ellen. Mr. Merklein is a member of the Woodmen of the World and belongs also to the Royal Arcanum. Although he takes much interest in public matters he has never desired public office, being contented with a just administration of the laws by honest men.