Bio: Marquardt, August F. (1850 - 19??)

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Surnames: Marquardt,

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

Marquardt, August F. (8 January 1850 - 19??)

AUGUST F. MARQUARDT was born at Bandekow, Pommern, Germany, January 8th, 1850, and came to the United States in 1866, settling at Wausau on the 1st day of July. For many years he was engaged in logging, lumbering and teaming, in mercantile operations and contracting. He owns now a fine farm in the northwestern part of the city of Wausau. He is a director of the Citizens State Bank of Wausau; has represented the ninth ward in the city council for eighteen years; was president of the common council from 19001901; was a member of the county board for sixteen years; president of the Marathon County Agricultural Society for two years, and vice president of the State Agricultural Society in 1899; was elected by the common council as member of the board of water commission May 1, 1905, for a term of three years; was appointed as a member of the park board of Wausau for a term of five years; was elected sheriff of Marathon county in the fall of 1900; and was elected as member of assembly in 1904-1906 and 1908, and was appointed by the governor as member of the national river and harbor convention sitting at Washington, District of Columbia, in 1912. From the time of his appearance at Wausau up to the present time, he was hard working and an industrious man, shrinking from no hardship in the way of honest labor. He settled upon his farm in 1876 and has continually resided thereon, and with the sole exception of two years while attending to the duties of sheriff, has cultivated it himself, bringing up the land to a high degree of cultivation. He has behind himself a life of honest toil and activity such as few people can boast of, and he can now enjoy in contentment the fruit of his labor of former years.