Bio: Herman, Edward C. (1881) 
Contact: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Herman, Fricke

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 569

EDWARD C. HERMAN, grist, Marathon City. Was born in Germany, Jan. 14, 1849. Came with his parents to Jefferson County in l850, where he lived until he was fourteen years of age. He then went to learn the miller trade at Waterloo, where he remained four years. In 1868, he went to Watertown one Summer, working in a flouring mill. Then he went to St. Paul, and from there to Manchester, where he remained but a short time. He lived in Wausau during the Winter of 1869, working in a shingle mill, and in the Spring of 1870, made a trip on the Wisconsin River. Then he worked at home two years, near Cambria, where his parents had removed; from there he returned to Wausau, and worked in the mills again, and went down the river in the Spring of 1873. In the Fall, he came to Marathon City, and worked in his father-in-law's grist mill, where he has remained ever since. He bought the mill in June, 1879. He was married, June 25, 1878, at Marathon City, to Augusta B. Fricke, who was born at Two Rivers, April 20, 1858. They have had two children, Laura A. and Helen V., neither of whom are living.