Bio: Schlecht, Lewis (1881) 
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Surnames: Schlecht, Stenger

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 566

LEWIS SCHLECHT, proprietor Adams House, Wausau, settled in Milwaukee, May 10, 1852; lived there eleven years, and enlisted in Co. D, 14th Regt., Wis. V. I., April 26, 1863; served ten months; was mustered out Dec. 22, 1865. Then he engaged as sailor, for two years, on the Goodrich Line; then went to the Lake Superior mines, and worked six months; then to Stevens Point, and ran the river, and followed lumbering until 1870. He then located at Stevens Point, and started a boot and shoe shop. Followed that until 1881, then came to Wausau. He was born in Bavaria, April 19, 1847. He was married at Stevens Point, July 2, 1869, to Catherine Stenger, who was born in Germany, Dec. 12, 1845. She was reared in Callicoon, Sullivan Co., N. Y. They have four boys Lewis, Frank, William and George.