Bio: Klimek, Matt J. (1873 - 19??)

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Surnames: Klimek, Weloch,

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

Klimek, Matt J. (8 February 1873 - 19??)

 MATT J. KLIMEK, a well known business man of Wausau, proprietor of a grocery store at No. 1202 North Sixth Street, and also of the Sixth Street Livery Stable at No. 1208 North Sixth Street, owns additional property in this city and has acquired his many interests entirely through his own efforts. He was born February 8, 1873, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is a son of Valentine Klimek, who was a native of Germany.  

Matt J. Klimek was reared and attended school at Green Bay, and afterward went to work in a saw mill at Arbor Vitae, where he remained four years and then came to Wausau and married and returned to Arbor Vitae and worked there for five years more at lumbering. He came back to Wausau and in 1900 established his barns and three years later his store. He owns the property also on the corner of Hamilton and Sixth Street to the alley that adjoins his livery stable, and has put up all the buildings on this ground, having his store and stables of brick construction. He carries a first class line of grocery goods and has a heavy trade. He keeps twenty head of horses and all kinds of conveyances for every purpose and additionally engages in general teaming. Mr. Klimek is one of Wausau's most energetic and enterprising citizens.  

In July, 1895, Mr. Klimek was married to Miss Paulina Weloch of Wausau, Wis., and they have seven children: Mary, Frances, John, Casimer, Leona, Marcella and Regina. The family belongs to the Polish Catholic Church and Mr. Klimek is a member of St. Michael's Society of this church.