HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY



remained on the home farm until he was 21 years old and acquired his education
in the district school. In 1899 he went to Athens, Marathon County, Wis.,
where
he spent two years employed in sawmills. He then returned to Ohio and for
the
next two years worked on the home farm. In 1903 he returned to Athens, spent
two years more there, working as a carpenter and in sawmills, after which
he
spent a few months in Milwaukee. Then for the third time he became a resident
of Athens and was clerk for two years and a half in the Athens Farmers store.
It
was thus that he entered into the mercantile business and it was there that
he learned
it. On leaving that place he became manager of the Farmers store in Edgar,
Marathon County. His next move was to start in business for himself and he
chose Wausau, the county seat and a city of 18,000 inhabitants, as the scene
of
his' operations. In 1912 he sold his business there, and in March that year
came to
Arpin, Wood County, where he bought the general mercantile business of Byron
Whittingham which he has since operated. He has a well appointed store with
an up-to-date stock of groceries, dry goods, shoes and other commodities
in popular
demand and has built up a good trade. He served six years as clerk of the
Arpin
public school district and was six years postmaster of Arpin under President
Wood-
row Wilson, in politics being a Democrat. Mr. Loschky was married June 21,
1904, to Laura, daughter of Christ and Hannah Bramm, of Athens, Wis., where
she was born March 27, 1884. Of this union three children have been born:
Lester
C., Oct. 7, 1907; Lawrence, Nov. 26, 1912; and Dorris, Oct. 27, 1913. Lester
C.
is a student in Concordia College, Milwaukee. Lawrence died at the age of
three
months.
   Adam Shidell, now deceased, who spent many useful years as a resident
of
Wood County, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, April 25, 1843, and came to America
with his parents about 1857. The family settled in Fond du Lac County, Wis.,
and from there at the age of 18 Adam Shidell enlisted in Company A of the
14th
Wisconsin Regiment to take part in the Civil War. He served for four years
and
took part in much of the hard fighting of the war, being twice wounded. At
the
close of the war he returned to Fond du Lac County and was there married
on
April 2, 1866, to Lucinda M. Abbey, who was born in Canada, Sept. 20, 1848,
daughter of Charles and Phoebe (Searls) Abbey. Her parents were natives of
Canada and England respectively. Charles Abbey was born in Hope, Canada,
Sept. 20, 1825. He remained in his native place till he was about 35 years
old,
operating a farm after growing to manhood. Then in 1860 he came to Wisconsin,
locating in Fond du Lac. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted for service in the
Civil
War, becoming a member of Company A, 14th Wisconsin Volunteers. His regi-
ment was assigned to Grant's army and Mr. Abbey was killed before Vicksburg,
May 22, 1863. His wife was left with five children, namely: Lucinda M., now
Mrs. Adam Shidell; Isaac, now residing at Superior, Wis.; William, of Dodgeville,
Wis.; Mary J., now Mrs. A. Krause of Norton, Kans.; and Charles W., of North
Dakota. Mrs. Phoebe Abbey died Feb. 7, 1903. For awhile after his marriage
Adam Shidell continued to live in Fond du Lac County, doing farming and team-
ing. Later he went to Waupun, where he engaged in farming, and in the spring
of 1881 he came to Wood County, where he had previously purchased 80 acres
of
wild land in Section 14, Sherry Township. On his first coming here he lived
in
true pioneer state in an old logging shack that was on his farm. During the
follow-
ing years he went through the struggle that is the lot of him who essays
to build
tip a farm from wild land in a primitive country. He worked first for several
years
as fireman and night watchman for the Sherry Ltumber Co., going into the
woods
during the winters to work in the logging camps. Gradually, however, the
results
*of Mr. Shidell's persistent, untiring work in the development of his property
began
to make themselves shown, and in the end a fine farm emerged, with 70 acres
of
rich soil cleared and modern buildings erected, including a fine brick house.
He
operated this property until his death, Sept. 4, 1919, which resulted from
his being
gored by a bull while engaged in his duties about the farm. The mother still
makes her home with her son Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. Shidell were the parents
of
11 children: Emma J., born Dec. 24, 1866, now Mrs. George Hollinghead, of



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