HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY



County, and remained until the death of the father, Aug. 2, 1901; the mother
now
makes her home at Fond du Lac. Mr. and Mrs. Nub were the parents of 11 chil-
dren: Harmon, now deceased; Dean, now Mrs. Ed Allen, of Waukegan, Wis.;
Edward, deceased; Louisa, now Mrs. S. H. Simonson, of Fond du Lac, Wis.;
Bertha,
of Fond du Lac; Albert, of Oakfield, Wis.; Lillian, now Mrs. F. M. Stronge
of
Fond du Lac; Otto, of Oak Center, Wis.; Tillie and Jessie, who live with
their
mother at Fond du Lac; and Beth, wife of Mr. Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Holland
have shown the greatness of their hearts by adopting five children, Chris,
Nicholas,
Irma, Earl, and Vivian, and have given them all the advantages of a fine
home and
parental guidance and love. Nicholas was in the army during the World War,
entering Aug. 13, 1918, at Wisconsin Rapids; he was sent to Kansas City,
where
he received training as a truck driver, and was then transferred to Camp
Hancock,
Ga., with the 40th Company, 5th Machine Gun Group. He was discharged at
Camp Hancock Jan. 9, 1919. Mr. Holland took an important part in all the
Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives during the war, and his qualities of leadership
have always made him a very prominent man in the county. He served as the
first clerk of Arpin Township, the board of which held their meetings at
his resi-
dence before the erection of the town hall. 'He was clerk of School District
No. 4
from the time of its organization until 1921, and through his efforts this
district
received the first State Aid for building purposes. He was instrumental in
bring-
ing State Trunk Highway No. 13 through Arpin Township. He was a charter
member and one of the organizers of the North Arpin Cheese Factory, and served
as secretary of that enterprise for several years. He was for many years
a director
of the Dairyman's State Bank of Arpin, and has been vice president of this
insti-
tution since 1917. He also organized the Auburndale Telephone Company, and
has been president of the company throughout its career.
   Frederick Schultz, one of the pioneers of northern Wood County, now living
retired in the city of Marshfield, was born in Pommern, Germany, Feb. 28,
1848,
son of William and Lottie (Harp) Schultz. He attended school in Germany,
and
came to the United States in June, 1870; here he worked for a short time
on a farm
in New Jersey, and in the fall of 1870 he came to Menasha, Wis., at which
city
two of his uncles were living.- In the spring of 1871 he went to work for
the Wis-
consin Central Railway (now the "Soo Line"), and as a member of
one of their
construction crews helped to build the line through Wood County into Marshfield.
He continued to do construction work for them until 1873, when he was made
sec-
tion foreman of the track between Auburndale and Marshfield, being stationed
at
Hewitt. In the fall of 1877, having accumulated some means, he purchased
80
acres of wild land in Auburndale Township, two miles west of the village
of Auburn-
dale. On Nov. 6, 1877, at Hewitt, he married Caroline Will, who was born
in
Germany May 2, 1855, and whom Mr. Schultz had known in that country. Im-
mediately following their marriage they settled on the-farm Mr. Schultz had
pur-
chased, on which he had erected a small log house to serve as a residence.
A hard
worker and a thrifty, capable man, with an ideal mate to help him along every
step of the way, Mr. Schultz disregarded the hardships of pioneer life (though
they
were bitter hardships indeed), and as the years passed the trees and stumps
fell
away before his axe, buildings arose, and an admirable farm emerged from
out of
the wilderness, a credit to Mr. Schultz and to the community. He added to
his
holdings until the farm consisted of 200 acres; he built a complete set of
fine build-
ings; and he cleared almost the entire acreage. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz lived
on
this place with their family and carried on its operation until 1915, when
they sold
it to one of their sons-in-law and bought a comfortable home at 300 East
Fourth
Street, Marshfield, where they have since- lived retired. Mr. Schultz served
in
many useful and prominent positions during the critical stage of the community's
development. He was chairman of the township board for several years, and
when the present Auburndale and Milladore Townships were united together
as
Auburndale Township, previous to the forming of Milladore Township in 1882,
he was for eight years' treasurer of Auburndale Township. When Marshfield
Township was yet a part of Auburndale Township, he hauled voters to the polls



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