Posted on: Wood Co. Wi Bios Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WoodBios/87 Surname: AMES, BOHRTA, FARENKOPF, HEUER, KOHLS, McCOY, YANDREY ------------------------- Charles HEUER Bio taken from History of Wood County CA: 1923 R977.552/H675 Milwaukee Public Library Charles HEUER, who is engaged in the practice of Veterinary surgery at Pittsville, and is a stockholder in the Pittsville Hardware Co., of which he was one of the organizers, was born in Germany, May 10,1863, son of Christian and Wilhelmina (YANDERY) HEUER. The father was a wholesale fish dealer who died when his son Charles was seven years old, or about 1870. In 1882 his wife came to the United States, settling in Milwaukee, where she subsequently made her home until her death in 1905. She and her husband had four children, Birtha, Johanna, August and Charles. Johanna is now Mrs KOHLS and lives in the city of Milwaukee; August, like Charles, lives in Pittsville; Bertha is deceased. Charles HEUER was reared in Germany, attended a graded school there and was two years in high school. He then worked four years as a clerk in a store, after which, in 1882, he came to the United States with his mother, with whom he lived in Milwaukee. There for a few years he worked as a carpenter, but subsequently engaged in the grocery business, operating a store in Milwaukee until 1890, when he came to Pittsville, Wood County. Here he opened a general merchandise store combined with a drug store, which he conducted for ten years, or till 1900, in which year he bought out the hardware store of LL DOUD and esatblished the Pittsville Hardware Co, incorporated, of which he is now scretary and treasurer, as well as stockholder, his son Lindore being the active member of the concern. Having begun the study of veterinary surgery while in Germany and completed it in this country, he is now practicing it as a prefession in Pittsville. He has a good residence, with twenty acres of land , within the city limits, and is fraternally affiliated with the Blue Lodge of Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) and the Equitable Fraternal Union. Mr HEUER was first married at Cedarburg near Milwaukee in 1888 to Emma BOHRTA, who was of German parentage. By her he had three children, one of whom died in infancy. The two survivors are: Elsa, who married Verne McCOY, a lumberman of Pittsville; and Lola, who married Harry AMES, of Clinton, IA. Mrs Emma HEUER died in 1893, and Mr HEUER married secondly, in 1895, Katherine FARENKOPF, daughter of Christ and Margaret FARENKOPF, of Pittsville. Her father is now deceased but her mother is still living. Of Mr HEUER's second marriage eight children have been born, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are Lindore, Neva, Irene, Katherine, Carl and Roland. Carl is now in the United States Navy.