Bio: Peth, Charles (1861 – 19??)

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Surnames: Peth, Klotz, Covey, Flieth, Waidely

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

Peth, Charles H. (1 August 1861 – 19??)

CHARLES H. PETH, president of the Peth Candy Company manufacturers of candy at Wausau, Wis., is at the head of a large and growing business enterprise of this city and is a thoroughly experienced man in this line. Mr. Peth was born at Chicago, Ill., August 1, 1861, and is a son of Charles Frederick and Annie (Klotz) Peth. The parents were born, reared and married in Germany and the father was a carpenter by trade.  

Charles H. Peth spent his earlier years in his native city and was educated in the public schools and afterward learned the trade of candy-making following which he went on the road as a candy salesman and came to Wausau, about 1901 from Peoria, Ill., having been in the candy business all his active life. He established the Peth Candy Company in the same year and the company was incorporated in 1903 with Charles H. Peth as president and general manager; W. L. Covey as vice president and H. G. Flieth as treasurer. A large territory is served by this firm which has representatives all over Wisconsin and Lower Michigan, and employment is afforded from twenty-five to thirty-five people. A general line of fine candies are manufactured and they have a number of special brands.  

Mr. Peth was married to Miss May Waidely, of Lincoln, Ill., and they have one son, Adlai, who travels over the trade territory for the firm. In politics Mr. Peth votes independently and fraternally is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the W. C. T.