Bio: Stark, Alois (1881)
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Surnames: Stark, Wetzel

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 571

ALOIS STARK, of the firm of Stark Bros., proprietors saw-mill, Knowlton, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, July 29, 1838. He came with his parents to Knowlton in 1853. They first began logging and the shingle business, which they followed until 1863; then they began the erection of a saw mill one mile below their present site, which mill burned in 1870. Mr. A. Stark was married at Knowlton, October, 1870, to Josephine Wetzel, who was born in his native village in Germany, November, 1850. They have three children — Thomas, Helen F. and Agatha F. The other brothers, Anthony Stark and Wendell Stark are both married, and have families living near their saw-mill. They erected this mill in the Summer of 1873. Its capacity is from 15,000 to 20,000 in one day, employing nine men.