HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


he was well known and highly esteemed all over his township. His widow still
survives him and makes her home in Dodge county. By her former marriage
to Mr. Brandt, she had three children: Matilda, John and Henry, the last-
named deceased, while only one child, Edgar A., was born to her union with
Mr. Meckelberg.
Edgar A. Meckelberg received his education in the district and high schools
and also attended the Commercial College of Watertown, Wisconsin. At the
age of fifteen years he started out to make his own way in the world and
secured
a position as bookkeeper in The Big White Store at Fond du Lac, where he
re-
mained for two years. At the age of seventeen years he learned the trade
of
watchmaker and jeweler and secured employment with Fond du Lac firms in
commercial work, remaining in that city until December 9, I907, at which
time
he came to Two Rivers and established his present business.
On June 20, I907, Mr. Meckelberg was married to Miss Edna Stoffel,
who was born in Plymouth, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, a daughter of
Charles Stoffel, a jeweler of Plymouth, who spent his last days at Fond du
Lac
and died there at the age of forty-six years, in I893, in the faith of the
Catholic
church. His widow is still surviving, and their only child was Mrs. Meckelberg.
Mr. Meckelberg is a member of Masonic Lodge, No. 200, Odd Fellows Lodge,
No. 66; Modern Woodmen, No. I308; the Equitable Fraternal Union and the
Order of the Moose, and he has held various fraternal offices. He and Mrs.
Meckelberg are consistent members of the Congregational church.
ALFRED W. VOLAND.
Alfred W. Voland is engaged in general farming in Schleswig township,
cultivating a good 'tract of land which returns him gratifying crops and
that
bring him a substantial annual income. He is one of Wisconsin's native sons,
his birth having occurred in Ozaukee county, November 30, I868. His father,
Frederick Voland, was born in Saxony, Germany, in I845, and when but nine
years of age came to America with his parents, Gotlieb and Wilhelmina (Vogt-
lander) Voland, who settled in Wisconsin. Gotlieb Voland purchased ten acres
of land and in addition to the cultivation of that tract he also worked at
the
mason's trade. Frederick Voland was largely reared in this state and in i882
he came to Manitowoc county, where he purchased a farm of fifty-two acres.
There he engaged in tilling the soil until his life's labors were ended in
death,
March J7, 1908. He had survived his wife who passed away in i906, at the
age of fifty-nine years. She bore the maiden name of Dorothy Struppardt and
was a daughter of Andrew Struppardt.
Alfred W. Voland was one of a family of eight children and after acquir-
ing his education in the district schools he engaged in farming on the old
home-
stead until the ist of April, i9i2, when he purchased his present place called
Brookland Corner near Kiel on the Millhouse road and is therefore identified
with general agricultural pursuits in Schleswig township. He allows no ob-
stacles to brook his path if they can De overcome by earnest, determined
effort
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