Bio: Wagner, A. C. (1874 - 19??)

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Surnames: Wagner, Barrett, Homne

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

Wagner, A. C. (5 June 1874 - 19??)

A. C. WAGNER, postmaster at Edgar, Wis., and a member of the furniture and undertaking firm of C. Wagner & Son, was born at Chicago. Ill., June 5. 1874, and is a son of C. and Amelia Wagner, the latter of whom died when her son was one month old.  

A. C. Wagner was educated first at New Holstein and completed his public school course in the High School at Kiel, Wis., after which he was a clerk in the general mercantile store of Heins Bros, for seven years and in 1897 came to Edgar to embark in the furniture and undertaking business. Later he was joined by his father, C. Wagner, and the firm name has been C. Wagner & Son ever since. The firm carries furniture, wall paper, carpets, curtains, pianos, organs, sewing machines, trunks and children's carriages. Mr. Wagner also writes insurance for the New York Underwriters, the St. Paul Fire and Marine, and the National, Hanover and Queen Companies. He is interested with his brother, Arthur Wagner, in a general store at Norrie, Wis., and additionally is a stockholder in the Edgar Bank, in the Edgar Telephone Company and also the Marathon County Telephone Company. Mr. Wagner is a licensed embalmer and covers all the home territory and a radius of twenty-five miles. In politics a Republican he has been postmaster at Edgar since May, 1901, succeeding C. C. Barrett, and since then the office has been transferred from the fourth to the third class and four mail routes have been established, When Mr. Wagner took charge there were but two daily mails while now there are five outgoing and four incoming mails, all being handled between 8 A. M. and 8 P. M. The business transacted at Edgar is probably the largest post office business of any part of the county outside the county seat, the records showing that the gross business done in the year ending December 31, 1912, amounted to $2,841.35. In every way Mr. Wagner has given satisfaction as an official. Mr. Wagner married Miss Mary Homne, who was born at Wittenberg, Shawano County, Wis., and they have three children: Edgar, Ruth and Dorathea. Mr. Wagner is second vice president of the Wisconsin Postmasters' Association.