Bio: Thielke, Gustav A. MD (1875 - 19??)

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Surnames: Thielke, Huels, Justman, Portz, Ringle, Mueller

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

Thielke, Gustav A. MD (22 May 1875 - 19??)

GUSTAV A. THIELKE, MD., physician and surgeon, at Wausau, a specialist in diseases of women and children, was born at Hullsburg, Dodge County, Wis. May 22, 1875, and is a son of August and Margaret (Huels) Thielke.

The parents of Dr. Thielke were born in Germany and came to the United States about the time of the Civil War settling at Theresa, in Dodge County, Wis. The father started a potash factory there and engaged in the business for ten years and then moved to Hullsburg, where he started a brewery and embarked also in the mercantile business and continued until 1898, at which time he moved to Mayville. In 1906 in the city of New York, on his return from a trip to Europe, he was accidentally asphyxiated. The mother of Dr. Thielke died in 1903, at Wausau her age being sixty-eight years, while that of the father was seventy-six years. Their family consisted of four sons and five daughters: August, who has been a hardware merchant at Mayville for the last twenty-five years, died at Mayville October 14, 1912; John, who, for the past fifteen years has been in partnership, now continues business with his older brother at Mayville: Herman, who is in the lumber business at Mayville: Gustav A.; Amelia, who is the wife of Charles Justman, president of the Hail and Cyclone Insurance Company of Juneau, Wis., and a former county treasurer: Barbara, who is the wife of Louis Portz, who is in the malting business at Hartford, Wis.; Mary, who is the wife of William Ringle, cashier of the Mayville State Bank; Augusta, who is the wife of Hon. John Ringle, mayor of Wausau, president of the Ringle Brick Company and vice president of the First National Bank of Wausau; Emma, who is unmarried; and Clara, who is the wife of Otto Mueller, who is in the jewelry business at Wausau.  

After graduating from the Mayville High School, in 1895, Gustav A. Thielke entered Parsons' Horological Institute, where he took a preparatory course and in 1898 became a student in the University of Michigan, in 1899 entering the medical department of Marquette University at Milwaukee, where he was graduated in 1903. He also was graduated in 1896 for the Parsons' Horological Institute, located at Peoria, III, and in 1897 from the Eye and Ear Infirmary in the University of Michigan, his course of study gradually leading him farther and farther until his final graduation in 1903, after which he established himself at Wausau. He is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, the Wisconsin Medical Society and the American Medical Association. For the past six years he has been city physician of Wausau, is examining physician for the Old Line Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee and the Central Life of Iowa and also of Germania Lodge of the E. F. U.  

Dr. Thielke married Miss Annie Ringle, daughter of John Ringle, and they have two children: Eugene, aged seven years: and Leonora, who is an infant. Dr. and Mrs. Thielke are members of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Republican and fraternally is identified with the Elks. His office and residence are located at No. 309 Jackson street, Wausau.