Bio: Sell, William (1875 - 19??)

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Surnames: Sell, Hobback, Montgomery, Dietl

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

---Sell, William (17 November 1875 - 19??)

WILLIAM SELL, who deals in hardware, stoves, tinware, paints, etc., at No. 514 Third street, Wausau, operates a tin shop and does all kinds of furnace repair work, is a well known business man here and enjoys a widely extended patronage. He was born on a farm in Wood County, Wis., November 17. 1875, and is a son of William and Caroline (Hobback) Sell, who moved to Wausau in 1876. The father is now deceased but the mother survives.  

William Sell was reared and educated at Wausau and his first employment was in a box factory, where he remained one year and then entered the employ of the Montgomery Hardware Company and learned the tinner's trade while there and continued to work for James Montgomery for fourteen years. For four more years he remained connected with that company as a stockholder and then started for himself on Third street where the Electric Theater is now located. He afterward bought the site of the Montgomery Hardware Company and remained three years, moving then to his present location. He keeps five tinners busy and his products go all over the state.  

Mr. Sell married Miss Rose Dietl, a daughter of August Dietl, a prominent merchant at Wausau, and they have had three children: Harold, who died at the age of five years; and Rose and Fritz.