Bio: Blecha, George M. (1872 - 19??)

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Surnames: Blecha, Hubing, Chesak,

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

Blecha, George M. (1872 -19??)

GEORGE M. BLECHA, who is proprietor of a meat market at Athens, in which village he has valuable property interests, owns also a farm of 160 acres, situated in the town of Halsey and belongs to a well known early family of this section. He was born in 1872 and is a son of Frank E. and Mary (Hubing) Blecha.  

Frank E. Blecha was born in Bohemia and came to Wisconsin in early manhood and was married in Marathon County to Mary Hubing, of German parentage. For a number of years he conducted a hotel at Athens, which was the first one in the place, and was well known all over the county. His widow survived him for some years and continued the hotel with the assistance of her sons who subsequently purchased the business and carried it on, together with a lumber business, until 1903, when they sold the property.  

Mr. Blecha was in the flour and feed business here for two years prior to embarking in the meat business. On October 16, 1900, George M. Blecha was married to Miss Mary B. Chesak, a daughter of Joseph Chesak and they have two children: Almira and Lucinda. The family has always been devoted in its support of the Catholic Church and Mr. Blecha belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters and also to the strictly German organization, the G. U. G. In politics he is inclined to be an independent voter although nominally a Republican, and has never consented to accept any public office except in connection with school district No. 1 town of Halsey, serving one year as school treasurer.