Delwich, Felicite

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Unknown

Felicite married Duchateau, Abelard 2 Feb 1861, Bay Settlement, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. Abelard (son of Duchateau, Francois Regis and Chamfroid, Maria Anna Joseph) was born 12 Sep 1836, , , , Belgium; died 25 Aug 1888, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• 1905 State Census: 1905, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
• 1910 Census: 1910, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: Abt 1913; History of Brown County, Wisconsin Page 399

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1905 State Census:
Arthur Duchateau41
Leon Duchateau16
Abilard Duchateau14
Clarence Duchateau12
Florence Duchateau48
Arthur Duchateau17
Folicott Duchateau8
Selvia Duchateau6
Robert Duchateau2

1910 Census:
Arthur H Duchateau45
Florence Duchateau44
Arthur H Duchateau22
Leon R Duchateau21
Leslie Duchateau19
Clarence Duchateau17
Florence Duchateau14
Irene Duchateau12
Robert Duchateau7

Biography:
Arthur H. Du Chateau is secretary and treasurer of the A. Du Chateau Company, and has been identified with the business in Green Bay since 1898. The company has offices at 329 North Washington street, and is one of the most flourishing concerns of its kind in the city. Mr. Du Chateau was born in Union township, Door county, Wisconsin, January 5, 1864, and is a son of Abelard and Felicite Du Chateau. The family is of French origin but has been in this country for some time. Arthur H. Du Chateau received his early education in the public schools of Wisconsin and left high school at the age of fifteen. He then entered Ripon College at Ripon, Wisconsin, where he remained for a short time, leaving this institution to go into business. In 1898 he became connected with the A. Du Chateau Company, wholesale iiquor dealers, and was elected its secretary and treasurer. Mr. Du Chateau is also a prominent factor in educational circles in Green Bay, where he has done much to promote the efficiency of the public schools. He is president of the board of education and has been a member of that body for eighteen years. He believes in specialized education and vocational training and it is largely through his influence that courses in manual training and domestic science have been added to the curriculum of the Green Bay schools. In connection with the public schools there is a department for the deaf and dumb, which was established some years ago, while Mr. Du Chateau was a member of the board, and has gradually grown, there being at first only one teacher, while now there are four. This department is at the Whitney school and the pupils come from the surrounding country. Mr. Du Chateau has been particularly active in seeing that this work has been carried on during the eighteen years that On January 3, 1887, Mr. Du Chateau was united in marriage to Miss Florence Mann, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Mann, the former a practicing physician of Chicago. To our subject and his wife were born eight children : Arthur H., Jr., now cashier with the Continental Clothing House of Green Bay ; Leon Raymond, house salesman for the Morley-Murphy Hardware Company ; Abelard Leslie, who also holds a position as salesman with the Morley-Murphy Company; Clarence F., a student in the Green Bay high school; Florence Felicite and Heloise Irene, who attend the same school ; Robert Duncan, deceased ; and Robert W., now in the grammar school of Green Bay. The family reside at 332 South Webster street and have many friends in this city. In politics Mr. Du Chateau is a republican. He is quite active and prominent in social affairs, having served as an officer of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, to which he belongs, and having filled all of the chairs in the local lodge. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Yacht Club of Green Bay, filling the office of vice commodore in the latter organization. Mr. Du Chateau is a man of broad and liberal views, quick to grasp the details of a situation, and he is alive to the constantly growing need of more special training in the public schools of this country and has done his utmost to secure this advantage for the children of Green Bay.

Arthur married Mann, Florence 3 Jan 1887. Florence was born 16 Dec 1864, London, Middlesex, United Kingdom; died 22 Oct 1932; was buried , Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Biography: Aft 25 Sep 1868
• Biography: 1913

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Biography:
Reprinted from the Green Bay Press Gazette, Shaping the century
series. Submitted to the Green Bay Press Gazette by Betsy Foley with
assistance from James C. Hogan.

Duchateau a key in recording area's past.

Before Frank Jean Baptiste Duchateau died in 1954, he donated a
collection of nearly 12,000 artifacts to the Neville Public Museum. It
is a historic legacy largely unknown to most in the community.

Described as one of Wisconsin's most ambitious collectors, Duchateau
held an extensive accumulation of American Indian artifacts, early
farm tools, ceramics, firearms, kitchen utensils, and foreign currency
as well as a large archeological collection. A rare sundial/compass
made in Paris, which Duchateau found at Point au Sable, remains on
public display at the museum.

Duchateau helped found the Neville Museum in 1915. He was the board's
first vice president and held the office until 1929. He also donated
the first exhibit cases.

The son of Belgian immigrants Abelard and Felicite (Delwich)
Duchateau, Frank grew up in the family home at Pine and Monroe
streets. He left high school at age 16 and held several jobs before
entering his father's wholesale liquor business in 1885 as bookkeeper
and manager. The company eventually became the largest import and
wholesale liquor operation in the city.

Frank took over the business when his father died in 1889. He ran the
business until Prohibition laws closed it in 1918.

Duchateau then shifted to real estate, continuing the commercial
downtown development his father began years earlier with the Duchateau
business block in the 300 block of North Washington Street. Eventually
Frank erected buildings on about six blocks of vacant land in the
downtown business district.

Duchateau engaged in a variety of other community and civic concerns
that contributed to the city's commercial and business development. He
was named a director of the Kellogg National Bank (now Associated Bank
Green Bay) in 1897, and helped organize the West Side State Bank (now
M&I Bank) in 1914. As a member of the bank's board of directors from
its beginning until 1940, he also presided as president, vice
president and chaired the Auditing Committee.

The diversity of his interests is reflected in Duchateau's
recreational as well as his business and civic interests.

He belonged to the Elks, Knights of Pythias; Red Banks Automotive
Club, Green Bay Yacht Club, Green Bay Gun Club, and the State and
Brown County Historical societies. He also raised champion racehorses.

Duchateau served on the City Council for five years, and was manager,
secretary and treasurer of the Brown County Telephone Co. for many
years. He helped organize the Citizens Light, Power & Heating Co. in
1891 and a year later; was one of the founders of the Brown County
Building and Loan Association.

In 1919, the king of Belgium honored Duchateau for Duchateau's efforts
to aid Belgium after World War I by awarding him the Medal of King
Albert.

Duchateau outlived three wives. He married Mary Beaupre in 1890. She
died three years later, leaving one child, Olive (who later married
C.M. Hogan). Duchateau married Julia (Lucas) O'Leary in 1894. She
died in 1911. Mary Loughlin became Duchateau's third wife in 1913.
She lived until 1940.

Duchateau resided at 703 S. Monroe St. from 1912 until he died in 1954
at the age of 87.

Biography:
FRANK J. D. DU CHATEAU.
Frank J. B. Du Chateau is the president and general manager of the A.
Du Chateau Company, wholesale liquor dealers, with offices at 329 North
Washington street. This business was incorporated in 1906 and has enjoyed
continuous growth through the intervening years to the present time. The
president of the company is one of Green Bay's native sons, his birth having
here occurred September 25, 1868. His parents were Abelard and Felicite
Du Chateau. The father came to Green Bay in 1856 from France and in
1869 founded the business which has developed into the largest wholesale
liquor house of the city. He was continuously connected therewith until
his death on the 25th of August, 1889, when he was fifty-two years of age.
The son pursued his education in the public schools here, leaving the
high school at the age of sixteen years, at which time he became office boy
for J. C. & A. C. Melville. He was next employed as clerk by the Otto Du
Chateau Company, retail dealers in shoes, and remained with that house for
a year, or until May, 1885. He next entered his father's establishment as
bookkeeper and manager and has continued in active control of the business
since that time. When he became connected with the undertaking it was
conducted under the name of A. Du Chateau and so continued until the
incorporation in 1906, at which time Frank J. B. Du Chateau was chosen
president as well as general manager. His business interests have been of
constantly growing volume and importance and he is now connected with
many enterprises which are valuable factors in the commercial, industrial
and financial affairs of the city. He is a director of the Kellogg National
Bank and has long been manager, secretary and treasurer of the Brown
County Telephone Company. He is also the owner of much real estate, having
bought and sold considerable property in Green Bay, and he has also
erected business houses and blocks on vacant property, there being six large
blocks in the city which have been built by the family.
Mr. Du Chateau was married, September 15, 1890, to Marie Beaupre, who
died October 20, 1893. leaving one child, Olive Felicite, who is a graduate
of St. Joseph's Academy. Mr. Du Chateau was again married, November
28. 1894, his second wife being Julia Lucas, who died on the 28th of November,
191 1. He resides at No. 703 South Monroe street, having there a
pleasant and attractive home.
In politics Mr. Du Chateau is a republican, believing firmly in the principles
of the party, and he has taken quite an active and prominent part in
public affairs, serving as alderman of Green Bay for five consecutive years
from 1892 to 1897 inclusive. During that time he was chairman of several
important committees.
He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is a trustee of
the lodge and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, in which he
at one time was master of finance. He likewise belongs to the Green Bay
Yacht Club, to the Green Bay Driving Club, the Green Bay Turn Verein and
the Green Bay Gun Club-associations which indicate much of the nature
of his interests and recreation outside of business. He is an alert, enterprising
man, accomplishing what he undertakes in any connection, and he enters
heartily into pleasures as well as business and thus maintains that even
balance which can not be preserved when one concentrates his energies upon
business affairs to the exclusion of other activities. For many years he has
been collecting relics of the Indians and early French traders and now has
a collection of over five thousand pieces, embracing guns, copper implements,
spearheads, stone hammers, hatchets, etc., which are all catalogued.
He has a brass sundial made by the Pere Lemares of Paris. On the back of
this is given the longitude and latitude of many of the well known cities of
those early days. It was found by him and another gentleman at Point An
Sable and is a rare curio. Mr. Du Chateau also has a mortar and pestle
used by the Menominee Indians. It stands about two and a half feet in
height and the pestle is six feet in length, it being used by the Indians to
crush corn. Both are made of white oak.

Frank married Beaupre, Marie 15 Sep 1890. Marie was born 6 Jul 1866, Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA; died 11 Oct 1892, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA; was buried , Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth - Church Record: 10 Apr 1891
• Death Record - Civil: 15 Sep 1980

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Birth - Church Record:
Name:Abelard Leslie Duchateau
Birth Date:10 Apr 1891
Birth Place:Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin
Gender:Male
Race:White
Father's name:Arthur O Duchateau
Father's Birth Place:Wisconsin
Mother's name:Florence Mann
Mother's Birth Place:Illinois
FHL Film Number:1306426

Death Record - Civil:
Name:Abelard Duchateau
SSN:399-07-1207
Last Residence:
54301 Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
BORN:10 Apr 1891
Last Benefit:54301, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States of America
Died:Sep 1980
State (Year) SSN issued:Wisconsin (Before 1951)

Name:A Leslie Duchateau
Death Date:15 Sep 1980
Location:Brown (May be abbreviated)
Certificate:021424

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• Birth - Church Record: 6 Oct 1893

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Birth - Church Record:
Name:Clarence Frank Duchateau
Birth Date:6 Oct 1893
Birth Place:Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin
Gender:Male
Race:White
Father's name:Arthur Duchateau
Father's Birth Place:Wisconsin
Mother's name:Florence D Mann
Mother's Birth Place:Illinois
FHL Film Number:1306426

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• Death Record - Civil: 20 Jan 1987

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Death Record - Civil:
Name:Florence Duchateau
SSN:397-58-9319
Last Residence:
54303 Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
BORN:3 Feb 1897
Died:Jan 1987
State (Year) SSN issued:Wisconsin (1969)

ame:Florence Rose Duchateau
Death Date:20 Jan 1987
Location:Brown (May be abbreviated)
Certificate:001319

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• Death Record - Civil: 25 Jun 1900

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Death Record - Civil:
Name:Robert D Duchateau
Death Date:25 Jun 1900
Death Place:Brown, Wisconsin, USA
Volume:03
Page Number:0411
Reel:007
Image:0236
Index Volume:01
Sequence Number:088912

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• Birth - Church Record: 6 Jan 1903

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Birth - Church Record:
Name:Duchateau
Birth Date:6 Jan 1903
Gender:Male
Father's name:Arthur Duchateau
Mother's name:Florence Mann
FHL Film Number:1299479

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