Bio: Schmidt, Nicolas (1860 - 19??)

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Surnames: Schmidt

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

---Schmidt, Nicolas (8 November 1860 - 19??)

NICOLAS SCHMIDT was born in Germany on the 8th day of November, 1860, where he received the common school education for which that country is noted. While learning the trade of a machinist he attended an evening school to make up for his deficiency of a high school education. He traveled extensively in Europe, working at his trade before he immigrated to the United States in 1880, settling first at Chicago, where he worked five years at his trade, and again attended evening school to acquire the English language. An injury received in the line of duty in his profession forced him to seek other employment, and for the next six years he was busy in the flour, feed, coal and wood business, dealing also some in real estate. He bought the Marathon City Brewery, reorganized it as a corporation and was made its president. He took up his residence in Marathon City soon afterwards and managed the business himself. He served the village as member of the board of trustees for five years, is president of the State Bank of Marathon City, and has been elected three times as member of assembly in succession from the first district. His strict attention to his legislative duties, his personal courtesy and gentlemanly bearing, his sense of fairness and justice endeared him to his party friends and gave him a large circle of acquaintances throughout the state, which resulted in his nomination for the office of state treasurer on the Democratic ticket in 1912.