HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


teen, a graduate of the high school and now a student of the university;
Irme,
who is seventeen, at home; August, who is sixteen, also at home; Lilly, who
has passed the fourteenth anniversary of her birth; Esther, who is thirteen
years of age; and Julia, who is now ten years old, are all attending school.
Harry, the youngest member of the family, is deceased.
The family are members of the Reformed church of Kiel, and Mrs. Stoll
belongs to the Royal Neighbors, the ladies' auxiliary of the Modern Woodmen
of America. Mr. Stoll votes an independent ticket and has held the office
of
trustee of the village. He enjoys an extensive acquaintance among the citizens
of this section of the county and has many stanch friends in Kiel.
EDWARD JOHN SPETTEL.
Edward John Spettel is the owner of a fine farm in Schleswig township,
Manitowoc county, which he is successfully operating. He was born in Frank-
lin, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, on the i9th of October, i864, and is a
son
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Aulbach) Spettel. The father was born and reared
in Bavaria, Germany, and there he learned the shoemaker's trade. In his early
manhood he emigrated to the United States, first locating at Herman, Sheboygan
county, where he established a shop and followed his trade for nineteen years.
During that period he accumulated sufficient capital to enable him to buy
a
farm so he came to Manitowoc county and purchased some land in Schleswig
township, and thereafter devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits.
Upon
this place he passed away in 1887 at the age of sixty-three years. He was
surf
vived by the mother, who was sixty at the time of her death, which occurred
in
i9oi. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Spettel numbered twelve, the living
members of the family beside Edward John Spettel being as follows: Emma,
the wife of Adam Kerr, of Sheboygan Falls; Anna, the wife of Rich Hartman,
a farmer of Schleswig township; Henry, who is living in Kiel; Jacob, a farmer
of Eaton township; Margaretha, the widow of John Hartman, of Schleswig
township; John, who is living on the farm of our subject; and Mary, a resi-
dent of Milwaukee.
Edward John Spettel was reared on his father's farm, in the cultivation
of which he began to assist while only a school boy. When old enough to begin
working for himself he left the parental roof and obtained employment as
a
farm hand, following this occupation until he was twenty-seven years of age.
He was then married and following this event he purchased his father's old
homestead, that he operated for three years. At the expiration of that time
he
removed to Sheboygan and took a position in one of the factories, but he
sub-
sequently withdrew from this and located on his father-in-law's farm. He
cul-
tivated this for seven years, but at the end of that period he once more
withdrew
from agricultural pursuits and located in Sheboygan. Later he again took
up
farming but gave this up to enter the employ of J. B. Laun of Kiel. Subse-
quently he worked at the stone mason's trade.
For his wife Mr. Spettel chose Miss Mina Reimers, a native of Schleswig
township and a daughter of Hans and Henrietta (Voss) Reimers, both of


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