Bio: Werheim, George (1834 - 19??)

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Surnames: Werheim, Kickbusch, Kuebler

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

Werheim, George (6 January 1834 - 19??)

George Werheim is another of the sturdy race of the pioneers of Marathon County. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, January 6, 1834, and received his education in the common schools of that little country, which had probably the best school system at that time in all Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1852, worked in New York and Chicago, and came to Wausau in 1855, a carpenter and joiner by trade. The early frame buildings were all joined � timber frame and only boards were nailed. The joining together of the frames was a job which required great accuracy, and it was George Werheim's reputation this his frames always fitted. Many of the old houses and buildings are his work. In 1872 he associated himself with F. W. Kickbusch under the firm name of Werheim & Kickbusch and they built the first sash, door and blind factory in Wausau, a little north of where now stands the Northern Milling Company. The partnership continued successfully until 1880, when it was dissolved by agreement, Mr. Kickbusch carrying on the business alone, and Mr. Werheim building another similar factory on Third Street. Later on he organized the Werheim Manufacturing Company, under which name the business was carried on until 1911, when George Werheim sold his interest therein and the business is now carried on under firm name of J. M. Kuebler Company. Mr. Werheim held many offices in Wausau and acquitted himself honorably of the trust confided in him. He was city treasurer four terms, village trustee, alderman, under sheriff, and three times the candidate of the Republican Party for the assembly and twice elected. He enjoyed the confidence of the Wausau people to a high degree: he had no superior in his profession as builder; personally, his joviality, coupled with his personal honesty, made him a favorite in Wausau. When the drift was strongly with the Democratic Party in 1884, he was nominated by the Republicans for member of assembly, and defeated after making a very creditable canvass, running three hundred votes ahead of the presidential ticket. He was elected to the assembly as a Republican in 1895 and 1899.