HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


seven children. Joseph P., who is engaged in blacksmithing at Sheboygan Falls,
Wisconsin, is married and has three children. Henry W., a tinsmith by trade,
also living at Sheboygan, is married and has three children. Clara is the
wife
of Ed Dewain, of Cooperstown, Manitowoc county, where he follows farming,
ind they have two children. Ida is the wife of D. Krumdick, a contractor
and
builder of Cooperstown, by whom she has three children. Elizabeth is the
wife
of John P. Knox, a resident farmer of Liberty township, and they have one
child. Ella is engaged in school teaching and resides with her parents. William
is a graduate of Marquette College at Milwaukee, where he pursued a course
in pharmacy.
Mr. Schneider has spent almost his entire life in Manitowoc county and
has been a witness of its growth and development for a half century. He early
learned the lesson that diligence is the basis of all success, and by earnest,
inde-
fatigable effort he has steadily worked his way upward. He has never sought
to figure prominently in any public relation but has gained for himself a
com-
fortable competence through close application to business and has won many
friends among those whom he has met in business and social circles.
ERNST KLESSIG.
Ernst Klessig is one of the progressive and prominent farmers of Manito-
woc county, living on section 31, Centerville township. He owns a fine farm
of
one hundred and forty-eight acres which he has brought under a high state
of
cultivation and upon which he has erected good improvements and makes a
specialty of raising fine stock as well as doing diversified farming. He
was one
of the promoters of the Mosel-Centerville Telephone Company, of which he
is
the president. He was born in Centerville township, October i2, i864, a son
of Ferdinand Klessig, a native of Saxony, Germany. The father emigrated to
the new world in 1848, when he was twenty-four years old, settling first
in
Washington county, but came to Manitowoc county in I849, where he lived
thereafter, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He started with three hundred
and
twenty acres but sold a considerable portion of his holdings later, so that
now
only one hundred and forty-eight acres of the original homestead remains.
He
continued to live upon that farm until his death, which occurred November
29,
1903, when he was seventy-eight years of age, his birth having occurred October
26, I825. During his lifetime he did diversified farming and was a successful
agriculturist. His wife was Amelia (Hinges) Klessig, also a native of Saxony,
Germany. Their wedding, however, was celebrated in Manitowoc county, she
having emigrated to the United States in I850 with her brother.
Ernst Klessig is one of the eight children born unto his parents, being the
seventh in order of birth. He was given a common-school education and during
his boyhood assisted his father with the farm work and has since made the
homestead his place of residence. He acquired the farm in i889, a place com-
prising one hundred and forty-eight acres of land. He is making a specialty
of
raising Guernsey cattle and Poland China hogs. He has long been one of the
most up-to-date and progressive farmers of his neighborhood, and was one
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