Duchateau, Frank Jean Baptist

1868 - 1954  (85 years)    Has 4 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Duchateau, Frank Jean Baptist
  Born	25 Sep 1868	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Aft 25 Sep 1868
  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.
  	DuChateau, Frank Jean Baptist Biography from History of Brown County, Wisconsin; 1913.
  Biography	1913
  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.
  Reference Number	5788
  Died	4 Jan 1954	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Buried	Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I315954	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Duchateau, Abelard,   b. 12 Sep 1836, , , , Belgium ,   d. 25 Aug 1888, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Delwich, Felicite,   b. 15 Aug 1843, Saint-Denis, , Namur, Belgium ,   d. 24 Apr 1935, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F205763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Beaupre, Marie,   b. 6 Jul 1866, Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 11 Oct 1892, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 26 years)
  Married	15 Sep 1890
  Children	1. Duchateau, Olive Felicite,   b. 21 May 1891, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 4 Jun 1966, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F205762	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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