Bio: Schewe, Carl (1865 - 19??)

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Surnames: Schewe, Gushe, Clark, Curtis, Yale, Gritsmacher, Botz

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

---Schewe, Carl (21 January 1865 - 19??)

CARL SCHEWE, who is one of the representative men of the town of Stettin, owning 214 1-2 acres of land situated in sections 9 and 4, was born near Danzig, Germany, January 21, 1865, and is a son of Gustave and Mollie (Gushe) Schewe. The parents of Carl Schewe were born, reared and married in Germany. They came to the United States in 1866, and spent two years at Buffalo, N. Y., and then moved to Manistee, Mich., where they lived for nine years. When they came to Wisconsin they lived five years in Wausau; seven years in the town of Main, Marathon County; one year in Wausau again, moving then to the town of Stettin, where they still live. They had two children born in Germany, one of whom died there, and the following were born in America: John, Amelia, August, Albert, Emma, Mollie and Bertha, the last named being deceased. Gustave Schewe voted with the Democratic Party for some years but during the last ten years of his life has been identified with the Republican Party. He was no seeker for office but once accepted the position of path-master, in which he served two years.  

Carl Schewe was eighteen months old when his parents brought him to the United States and was twelve years old when the family came to Marathon County, where he completed his education in the public schools. For three years afterward he worked in a saw mill, for two summers worked for J. Clark, for two summers worked in a planing mill and then at lumber mill at what was then Black Creek, now Athens. By that time he was twenty-five years of age and he then engaged as a teamster for Curtis & Yale, and continued with that well known firm and lived at Wausau for seven years and then went on the farm which he received from his father and now owns, about eighty acres of which is cleared, Mr. Schewe having cleared forty of it and made improvements. He was foreman of the gang that built the macadam road near the City Limits Wausau. In politics he is a Republican. For three years he has been clerk of District No. 6, town of Stettin; president of the board of health; for three years was on the road and bridge committee; two years was on the board of equalization; one year served on the poor board, and for nine years was chairman of the town board of Stettin, for which office he has been again nominated without opposition. For six years he has served on the committee on the cheese factory, and for the past three years has been assessor of the Stettin Mutual Fire Insurance Company, all the above showing that Mr. Schewe is held in esteem by his fellow citizens.  

When twenty-five years of age, in 1890, Mr. Schewe married Miss Amelia Gritsmacher, a daughter of Fred and Fredricka (Botz) Gritsmacher, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Schewe have had nine children: Bertha, who died in infancy being the eldest, and Lizzie, who died when aged fourteen years being the fifth in order of birth. The others survive: Frank, Paul, Selma, Lydia, Alma, Erna and Carl, Jr. The family belongs to the Lutheran Church, Mr. Schewe formerly being president of the church society.