HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


he holds the responsible position of purchasing agent for the institution
whose
products are sold and used in every country on the globe. He has always been
a leading spirit in promoting his city's welfare and civic progress and in
assisting
new industries, being among those to subscribe for stock when the Tremmel
Art Glass Works was organized and also being one of the organizers and founders
of the Wisconsin Textile Manufacturing Company, a concern which gives prom-
ise of being one of the large industries of this city.
In i9oo Mr. Lohman was married to Miss Nana Nash, a daughter of ex-
Senator William T. Nash, editor of the Chronicle, published in Two Rivers.
Four children have been born unto this union, one son and three daughters:
Leslie, Gertrude, Ethel and Winifred. Fraternally Mr. Lohman is a member
of the Masonic Lodge and Modern Woodman camp. He is also a member of
the High School Alumni Association of Two Rivers, the County Historical
Library and the State Historical Society. In private life he has always taken
a
great interest in public affairs and has been a frequent contributor to the
papers,
also having written a series of papers on the early days in Two Rivers which
have been printed and bound in book form. He has never been an office seeker.
Active in business and taking a great interest in the affairs of the city
he is a
most valuable citizen of Two Rivers. That he has faith in the future of his
native city is evidenced by the fact that he has invested in considerable
real
estate in the best residential part of the city. He also owns other properties
and
is today a tax payer of material proportions. There are few men in Two
Rivers enjoying greater popularity or who are more useful citizens than the
sub-
ject of this review.
CHARLES KADERABEK.
The visitor to Manitowoc county, viewing for the first time its fertile lands,
well regulated farms and general air of prosperity, finds it hard to believe
that
but comparatively a few years ago this section of the country was a wild
waste,
principally swamp and.timberland; yet such is the case, and the excellent
condi-
tion of the country has only been brought about through the untiring labor
and
persistent endeavor of men of energy and progressive ideas, whose lives have
been spent in forwarding the development of this section.
One of these sterling citizens, Charles Kaderabek, of the town of Rapids,
comes of a family that has been prominent in agricultural affairs in Manitowoc
county for a number of years. His grandfather, Mathias Kaderabek, was born
in Bohemia, and founded the family in the town of Cooperstown, Manitowoc
county, where he spent his life in developing a farm from the wilderness,
and
here Frank Kaderabek also rose to prominence among the farmers of the county.
The latter, the father of Charles Kaderabek, who married Anne Petska, a native
of Bohemia, is now living at Branch.
Charles Kaderabek received his education in the schools of the neighborhood
of his father's farm and also attended public school at Branch. He was reared
to agricultural pursuits, and worked on his father's farm until i908, at
which
time he purchased the property which he is now cultivating, in the town of


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