Bio: Spaete, Alfred (Sausage Maker - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Spaete, Kammerer, Scholtz

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/15/1969

Spaete, Alfred (Sausage Maker - 1969)

Alfred Spaete, 75, a native of Germany, was honored Friday and Saturday at an open house for 60 years in sausage making. Alfred learned his trade as a young lad in Germany, where he also earned his master’s sausage license.

Alfred and his wife Ida came to the United States 46 years ago. He worked in a butcher shop in Neillsville from 1923 to 1931, and was in partnership for six of those years. They purchased the Hart butcher shop in Granton in 1931, operating it for two years. They then moved to Rice Lake and purchased a meat market. The Spaetes returned to Granton in 1942, and installed frozen food lockers, and continued in business until 1945. Since then, Alfred has built a slaughterhouse and sausage kitchen on his farm, where he continues to work. He has limited his business, recently, but still enjoys the art of sausage making.

Mr. and Mrs. Spaete have four children: Mrs. Al (Lydia) Kammerer of Pittsville; Mrs. Arlo (Elsie) Scholtz of Eau Claire; Alvin of Granton; and Paul, a student at Eau Claire State University.