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Message #: | 1353 |
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Date Posted: | 11-07-2001 |
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Subject: | Voight, Adolph A. F. (History - 1885) |
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Email: | Posted4U@Charter.net |
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Surnames: | VOIGHT SCHAUCHEL VOIGHT FISHER |
"The BIOGRAPHICAL History of Clark County, Wisconsin"
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Chicago and Winona, H. C. Cooper Jr., & Co. in 1918
ADOLPH A. F. VOIGHT, proprietor of the Star Cheese Factory in 20, Lynn Township, was born in Calumet County, Wis., Nov. 24, 1885, son of Herrnan and Sophie (Schauchel) Voigt. Both parents were German, the father being a native of Pornmern and the mother of Mecklenberg. Each came to the United States by sailing vessel, being many weeks on the voyage, and they were married in Calumet County, this state, where Herman Voigt located on a farm in the timber. Their first residence there was a log cabin, which he built. After clearing that place he sold it and moved to Wood County, where he resided fourteen years, engaged in farming. He and his wife had ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch, Adolph Augustus Frederick, was the youngest. The latter acquired his education in the district school and in a German school, later taking up farming on a tract of fifty-three acres in Rock Township, Wood County.
He had married in 1909, Hildergat Fisher, daughter of Leonard Fisher, a pioneer of Wood County, and he and his wife began housekeeping on the farm. There he remained for three years, raising good stock, but at the end of that time taking up the trade of cheesemaker. For the first six months he worked with his brother, C. A. Voigt, of Chili, and after that worked for his other brother Gust of Spokeville, who was operating a factory there. With the latter brother he remained four months, also learning butter-making. He then went to Hewett to become manager of the Mill Creek Co-operative Cheese and Butter Factory. At the end of one year Mr. Voigt purchased his present cheese factory in Section 20, Lynn Township, and has greatly improved the business. When he took over the property there were only eighteen patrons, which number he has increased to fifty one. He has increased the value of the factory at least
$2,000, and in 1915 paid out $15,000 to its patrons, that amount being increased in 1916, which evidences his thorough knowledge of the business and careful management, together with honest dealing. He and parents of three children, Arthur, Adeline and Benita. The family are members of the Lutheran Church.
Family Notes
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The above photo, taken in 1908, was the Adolph Voigt Cheese Factory, located at N5903 County Highway G, northwest of Neillsville. Arnold Hoppa purchased the business in 1929, making cheese until 1940 when he sold the vats and remodeled the building into a tavern. Sometime later, the business was taken over by Arnold's son, David, until 1988 when the business was sold to the present owners, Dave and Donna McDonald. (Photo courtesy of Gordon Thoma.) |
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