- G. H. DeWALL, who is well known to the traveling public as the proprietor of the DeWall's Hotel, in Black Creek, Wisconsin; was for many years engaged in agricultural operations in the vicinity of his present residence. He is a native of Germany, born February 26, 1855, a son of Frederick and Johannah (Shroeder) DeWall, who came to America in 1871 and settled in Outagamie county, Wisconsin, in 1874. Frederick DeWall, who followed farming throughout his active career, died in 1905, while his widow still survives, making her home in Black Creek, at the remarkable age of ninety-four years.
G. H. DeWall was the youngest of his parents' five children, and he accompanied the family to the United States, when he was sixteen years old, his education being completed in this country. He remained on the home farm, assisting his father, until he had reached the age of twenty-one years, and then started to farm on his own account on forty acres of wild land in Seymour township, Outagamie county. He resided there for three years, and then traded this property for forty acres in Black Creek township, and during the eighteen years following, he continued to reside here and to add 127 acres to his tract. This he sold in 1899 and bought two acres in the village of Black Creek and forty acres just outside of the village limits, and he has continued to hold and operate this property to the present time. On April 1, 1905, he purchased the hotel he now owns, and moved into it at once, and since then he has made this one of the most popular hostelries of this section.
In 1875, Mr. DeWall was married to Miss Amelia Melchert, who was born June 5, 1857, the youngest of a family of seven children, and a native of Outagamie county. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. DeWall, of whom seven now survive, as follows: Louisa, who married Frank DeWall, now residing in Appleton; Matilda, who married John Prevey, living in Black Creek, having had five children; Frank, who is married and living in the town of Cicero, having two children; Emma, who married Charles Myer, residing in Black Creek village, the mother of two children; Elmer, who is married and has one child; Edward, of Black Creek, who is also married and the father of one child, and Margaret, who is single, living at home. Mr. DeWall is a republican in politics, and he is now a member of the township board of trustees. With his family, he attends the Lutheran church.
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1855 - 1937 (81 years)
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