Frambach, Colonel Henry Augustus

1839 - 1921  (81 years)

• Name	Frambach, Henry Augustus
  Prefix	Colonel
  International Arrival/Departure	12 Mar 1812
  Vacation to Bernuda
  Name: Henry A Frambach Arrival Date: 12 Mar 1912 Birth Date: abt 1840 Age: 72 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Bermuda Port of Arrival: New York, New York Ship Name: Oceana
  Birth	22 Nov 1839	Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	Between 9 Nov 1861 and 22 Mar 1865
  Civil War - 61st Illinois Infantry Company G.
  Political Office	Between 5 Apr 1885 and 1886	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  First Mayor of Kaukauna
  News Mention	11 Jun 1886
  Kaukauna Times
  Col. Frambach now holds the reins over the finest driving and best matched team in the county; Col. Frambach recently acquired Prince, a chestnut gelding, from Appleton, which he will mate with his brown gelding Ned. The pair will make one of the finest teams in the state.
  1890 Census	1890	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Kaukauna Page 04 Line 01
  	1890 Census Veterans Schedule Kaukauna Page 4 Veterans Schedule
  Biography	1891
  Biography in the lion of the Fox page 096
  1895 State Census	1895	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Listed head of houshold, 6 men 5 women all born US
  1900 Census	1900	Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, USA
  1910 Census	1910	Cheboygan, Cheboygan, Michigan, USA
  Mary A Frambach===Henry A. 70 Francis M Frambach 62 William H Gray--daughter 43 (Mrs William which is Katherine , Henry's daughter) Arthur A Frambach 33 Edward E Frambach 31 Anna N Elliot Servant 18 [11] Estelle Frambach---daughter in law 30
  Will	9 Mar 1915
  	Frambach, Henry A Last page of his will, listing his marriage date and birth dates of his children. (Documents and Records)
  Death	10 Mar 1921	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Obituary	Aft 10 Mar 1921
  Biography	Aft 1921
  FRAMBACH, Henry A., a resident of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, is of German descent, as his name indicates, and was born in Syracuse, New York, November 21st, 1840. His father, Charles A. Frambach, was a teacher of languages. In 1846, Mrs. Frambach, mother of Henry A., died, and her husband, with his family of four motherless children, removed to Racine, where eight years after he too passed away. The boy, Henry, was thus thrown upon his own resources, and went to work upon a farm for the summer at six dollars per month. When winter came he attended the district school, and thus acquired the rudiments of an education. That he was a brave, self-reliant boy is shown by the fact that in 1857, when but seventeen years of age, he crossed the plains to Salt Lake as master of a wagon train, receiving therefor, as compensation, forty- five dollars per month. Returning from his long journey, he operated a wood boat on the Illinois river for a time, when the civil war coming on, he sold his boat and enlisted in the Sixty-first Illinois infantry. Serving as a private till after the battle of Shiloh, he was detailed to the secret service, the most responsible, as it was the most dangerous service to which a soldier could be assigned. Of his bravery, self-possession and good judgment, there could be no better evidence than this assignment. He served with distinction in this capacity until 1863, when he was appointed chief of the secret service in the Department of Arkansas, with the rank of colonel. This position he retained for some time after the close of the war, engaging at the same time in mercantile business in St. Louis. In 1872, Col. Frambach, in company with his brother, went to Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and built the first paper mill erected in that town, at the same time engaging in merchandizing. From 1878 to 1880 he operated paper mills in Menasha and Kaukauna. The Eagle paper mill, which he at one time operated, was burned in 1880, and this he rebuilt and operated as the Frambach paper mill. A year later, he, with others, organized the Union Pulp company. His interests in both of these establishments he disposed of in 1884 to a syndicate; and, in company with Joseph Vilas of Manitowoc, he organized the Badger Paper company, and its plant was ready for work in 1885. Col. Frambach is president of this company, one of the most prosperous of the many similar ones in that region; also vice-president and general manager of the Quinnesec Falls company, Quinnesec, Michigan. He is a financier as well as a manufacturer, having established the Manufacturers' bank in South Kaukauna, in 1886, and two years later he organized the First National Bank of Kaukauna, with a capital of $50,000, which is said to be one of the soundest financial institutions in the state. Of this bank he is president, and has held the office since the bank was organized. Col. Frambach is also actively interested in several other manufacturing enterprises, and has the mental capacity and physical vigor to grasp the details of all these great concerns. Politically Col. Frambach is Republican, and one of the party leaders of his district. He was a member of the town board of supervisors in 1876, and in 1892 was the Republican nominee for congress, but that was not a year favorable to Republican success, and he was defeated. He was the first mayor of Kaukauna when it had received a city charter, and was president of the American Paper Maker's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, a position for which he was admirably fitted. He was married, in 1865, to Miss Fannie Claspill of Springfield, Illinois, and of this union there are five children. The family are attendants upon the Congregational church, to which Col. Frambach is a liberal contributor, as he is to many other worthy objects. He is an Odd Fellow, and has filled, consecutively, all the official chairs of the organization. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity in 1887, and is a member of the Wisconsin consistory. He is a benevolent, public-spirited man, enterprising and alert in all business affairs, and in a very large sense the architect of his own fortune. A hard worker, he finds his relaxation from the cares of business in raising and driving fine horses, for which he has a passion.
  Biography	Aft 1921
  Colonel Johan "Henry" August Frambach was born in Herkimer City, New York on November 22, 1840. He was the second of four children of German immigrant parents, Charles Augustus J. and Maria Elisabeth (Ader) Frambach. His mother died in 1846 and father in 1854. The children were adopted by Bernard and Francis Stoveken of Milwaukee. Frambach's formal education ended in 1857. In 1858 when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the 61st regiment of the Illinois Infantry and later he was recruited into the Secret Service and served as a spy. In 1863 he was appointed Chief of the Secret Service in the Department of Arkansas and promoted to Colonel. He married Fannie Claspill in 1865. Frambach was one of the most influential persons in establishing the Fox River Valley as a center for papermaking in the United States. In 1872, Frambach joined his brother, John Stoveken, to rebuild and convert Stoveken's burnt flour mill in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, into a paper mill. Under Frambach's technical leadership, the rebuilt paper mill (named Eagle Mill) incorporated the new wood grinding pulping process that had been invented by Friedrich Keller in Germany. From 1877-1880, Frambach owned and operated the Menasha Paper Pulp Company and then returned to Eagle Paper Mill until it was destroyed by fire. He rebuilt the mill and renamed it first, Frambach Paper, then Union Pulp Company, serving as Vice-President and Manager. In 1884 he sold his interests in Union Pulp Company and organized the Badger Paper Company which was the largest mill in Kaukauna at the time. Badger also built a mill in Quinnesec Falls, now known as Niagara, Wisconsin. In 1987 the Badger mill caught fire and was destroyed. Rather than rebuild the mill, Frambach chose to build a paper mill in Cheboygan, Michigan. He served as President of Cheboygan Paper Company until he sold the operation in 1916. He has at least 10 patents to his credit. Frambach retired and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he died on March 10, 1921.
  News Mention	20 Apr 1962
  Kaukauna Times
  An old landmark and a symbol of bygone age of elegance, is passing from the Kaukauna scene with the demolition of the one time Frambach mansion at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Depot Street. Some of the features of the house included a fireplace in every room on every floor, a music room, a sitting room, dining room, five bedrooms, sewing room, ballroom, billiard room and a complete stable.
  	Frambach, Family home Kaukauna Times News on demolition of home.
  Media	15 Feb 2010
  Video of Henry Frambach (.3gp video length= 4.09 min)
  Inducted into the Papermakers Hall of Fame in 2010.
  	Frambach, Henry 2010 Inducted to the Papermakers International Hall of Fame
  News Mention	15 Sep 2010
  Hall of Fame, Papermaking Industry
  Wednesday, September 15, 2010 Two Fox Valley Men to Be Honored with Johann Gutenberg in a Hall of Fame Ceremony, Sept. 23 What does Johannes Gutenberg have in common with Henry Frambach of Kaukauna (1840-1921) or John Swanson of Appleton (1917-2004)? These three men, with two others, will be inducted to the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame on Sept. 23, 2010 in Appleton, Wisconsin. Henry Frambach was a ?pioneer papermaker who built and ran six paper or pulp mills in Wisconsin and Michigan. Frambach was instrumental in bringing an advanced groundwood process to Wisconsin in 1872 which helped accelerate the US paper industry. He obtaiined fourteen U.S. patents. One interesting part of his career was being the manager for paper making exhibit at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893e. John Swanson was a famous professor at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, where he served from from 1941 to 1982. (The Institute later moved to Georgia and became part of Georgia Tech as the Institute of Paper Science and Technology.) He was an expert in the chemistry of surfaces and colloids and used his expertise to help advance papermaking from a mysterious art into a science. Gutenberg, I understand, was some guy from Germany who had something to do with early non-electronic media (maybe early precursors of the Kindle and iPad?), apparently using some kind of printing technology to create reading material that had to be physically picked up to be accessed. Go figure. Well, I guess that's cool, too. There are two other inductees: Friedrich Gottlob Keller (1816-1895, Germany) who helped develop ways to use trees for papermaking (it was his process that Frambach brought to Wisconsin and further refined), and Jasper Mardo (1921-1997, Vancouver, Canada), a leader and educator who brought about many advances in knowledge and practice in papermaking.
  Burial	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
  Person ID	I144701	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Frambach, Charles August,   b. Between 1798 and 1801, Canton Alzey, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany d. Abt 1854, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Ader, Maria Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1810   d. Abt 1846, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, USA (Age ~ 36 years)
  Family ID	F55168	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Claspill, Francis M. "Fannie",   b. Abt Apr 1847, , , Indiana, USA d. 20 Dec 1920, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age ~ 73 years)
  Marriage	8 Nov 1864	Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA
  		Frambach, Henry and Fannie
  Children	1. Frambach, Catherine M. "Kate",   b. 15 Jun 1866, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA d. 15 Dec 1943, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA (Age 77 years)   2. Frambach, John Harry,   b. 5 Dec 1868, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA d. 7 Sep 1937, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 68 years)   3. Frambach, Clarence C.,   b. 8 Jun 1873, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. Abt 1876, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 2 years)   4. Frambach, Arthur Augustus,   b. 17 Jan 1877, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 14 Jul 1932, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 55 years)   5. Frambach, Edgar Eugene,   b. 23 Sep 1878   d. 29 Dec 1954, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 76 years)   6. Frambach, Charles Louis,   b. 27 Jul 1880, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 8 Sep 1936, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F48412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2015

  
  

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  [S1474] Carol Mainville VanBoxtel, Book - 28 Mayors Past and Present leadership in Kaukauna, (28 Mayors Past and Present leadership in Kaukauna).