HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


In addition to his other activities he has found time to promote the organization
of a cooperative cheese factory of which he now serves as treasurer.
Mr. Arnemann was married to Miss Emma Redecker, a daughter of Wil-
liam Redecker, and they have two children: Harold, aged thirteen years, who
has just entered high school; and Elmer, aged seven years. He is a devout
mem-
ber of the Lutheran church. Mr. Arnemann is a democrat in politics as was
his
father, and like him has been prominent in township matters, being one of
the
first to start the movement to secure state aid on the roads, and holding
the office
of school clerk for ten or twelve years.
PAUL MANGIN.
Paul Mangin, one of the progressive and enterprising young agriculturists
of
Manitowoc county, has been engaged in agricultural pursuits for some years
on
the farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 20, Franklin township,
on
which he was born July I3, I88i, a son of Paul and Mary (Madigan) Mangin,
natives of Ireland. Mr. Mangin's parents were married in their native country,
and shortly thereafter came to the United States, settling on the one hundred
and twenty acre farm now occupied by their son Paul, where Mrs. Mangin died
April 22, i898, aged fifty-eight years, and was buried in St. Patrick's cemetery.
Mr. Mangin, who survives his wife, is now living on the home farm and is
seventy-five years of age.
Paul Mangin was the eighth of his parents' eleven children, and he has al-
ways remained on the home farm which is now all cleared with the exception
of
eight acres. He came into possession of the homestead in i908, partly by
pur-
chase and partly by inheritance, and he has his land all fenced with barbed
and
woven wire. He does general farming, marketing dairy products, hay and
grain, and raises graded Holstein cattle and breeds to Percheron horses.
He
has a basement barn, thirty-five by eighty-five feet, built in i906 and a
frame
barn forty by sixty, built in i908, and his two story frame residence was
erected
by his father. The water supply for all purposes is secured from drilled
wells.
Mr. Mangin was married June I4, i9ii, to Miss Margaret Long, who was
born August 4, I889, the eldest of the nine children of P. H. and Elizabeth
(Sullivan) Long, natives of Manitowoc county, who still survive. In political
matters Mr. Mangin is a democrat, and he and his wife are members of St.
Patrick's church of Franklin township.
HON. ALBERT H. SCHMIDT.
Hon. Albert H. Schmidt, judge of the municipal court of Manitowoc county
and one of Manitowoc's most distinguished citizens, was born in Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, and is a son of Henry and Julia (Zinns) Schmidt. Henry Schmidt
came from Hanover, Germany, to the United States with his brother, Fred,
in i850, and settled in Kossuth township, where in i86i he organized a com-


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