Bio: Tress, Otto (1868 - 19??)

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Surnames: Tress

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

Tress, Otto (16 June 1868 - 19??)

OTTO TRESS, one of the substantial and useful men of the town of Stettin, who owns 200 acres of fine land situated in sections 26 and 24, occupies that part of his farm lying in section 26, on the south side of the east and west road, six miles west of Wausau. Mr. Tress was born in Germany, June 16, 1868, and is a son of Ferdinand and Wilhelmina Tress who came from Germany, and have been residents of the town of Stettin for thirty-nine years.  

Otto Tress was five years old when his parents brought him to the United States and to Wisconsin. He attended schools in the towns of Stettin and Wausau, after which he learned the carpenter trade, working afterward at the same in summers and for fourteen winters laboring in the woods. He then turned his attention to farming and of his large acreage has seventy acres cleared, six acres preserved in fine timber and all the rest in native woods. He has been successful as a breeder of grade Shire horses, and of Red Poll cattle. All the improvements on his place he put here and is one of the busy men of the town. For the last three years he has been town treasurer, is also road overseer of District No. 9. In politics he is a Democrat and religiously belongs to the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company.