- JOHN THEODORE WELTZIEN, a prosperous and enterprising young agriculturist of Outagamie county, residing on a fine farm in Greenville township, was born on his present property, August 31, 1880, and is a son of John and Hannah (Schuchnecht) Weltzien, natives of Mecklenburg, Germany, where the former was born in 1843, and the latter March 10, 1848. John Weltzieil came to this country with his parents when about fifteen years of age, the family settling on a farm about two miles south of the present farm of John T. Weltzien which was purchased by them two years later. Here John Weltzien grew to manhood and succeeded to the ownership of the property, on which he died in 1894. His widow later moved to Appleton, where her death occurred in 1908. They were the parents of nine children, as follows: Minnie, the wife of Edward Gable, editor of the Herald, of Antigo, Wisconsin; Frederick, a farmer of Greenville township; Etta, deceased, who was the wife of John Reich, a carpenter of Greenville township; Louisa, the wife of Henry Hameister, a farmer of Norwood township, residing at Antigo; Alvena and Lena, who are deceased; John Theodore; Henry, a resident of Appleton; and Hilda, a trained nurse of Chicago. John Theodore Weltzien attended school in Greenville township and the Third Ward, Appleton, and he has never left the home farm. On attaining his majority he began working for his mother until he was married, then rented the homestead for five years, at the end of which time he bought the property, and he now operates the 100 acres as a general farm and gives some time to stock raising. In politics Mr. Weltzien is independent, and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. He was married February 11, 1903, to Hattie Schoettler, who was born one and one-half miles south of her present home, February 11, 1882, daughter of Carl and Louisa (Wolf) Schoettler, the former born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, December 1, 1836, and the latter in Hamburg-Schwerin, April 25, 1849. They were married in Greenville township, Mrs. Schoettler having come to the United States when fifteen years of age with her parents, while her husband came to this country alone when twenty-one years old. He went to work for his brother, John, who was a blacksmith in Greenville township, but after two years purchased a farm of seventy acres in Greenville township, and here spent the balance of his life, dying June 9, 1910, while his wife passed away October 25, 1903. They were the parents of eight children: John, residing one and one-half miles southwest of Weltzien; Bertha, who is deceased; Alvena, the wife of Harry Learned, a finisher in the Appleton Wire Works; Charles and Louis, deceased; Ida, the wife of Albert Maas, residing one and one-half miles southeast of Mr. Weltzien; Hattie; and Otto, who resides on the old homestead. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Weltzien: Myron John Frederick, born January 15, 1905, who died at the age of five weeks; and Gladys Johannah Henrietta, born February 7, 1907.
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1880 - Yes, date unknown
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