Freund, Jacob

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• Reference Number: 2655
• Biography: Aft 18 Sep 1858
• Immigration: Abt 1879
• Moved: Abt Apr 1884, Seymour, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA

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Biography:
JACOB FREUND, who for many years has been promiuent in business circles of Seymour, Wisconsin, where he is now extensively interested in real estate, has also been closely identified with the public issues of the city and has held various offices within the gift of his fellow townsmen. Mr. Freund was born September 18, 1858, in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Geck) Freund, natives of the Fatherland, the former of whom passed away in Germany in 1891, aged seventy-nine years, and the latter in 1882 when sixty-two years of age. Their children were as follows: Philip, who is a resident of Linn, New York; Jacob; Dorothea, who married Philip Gallner and resides in Germany; Christina, who married Michael Rothenberger and lives in Germany; and Barbara, who married George Schaefer and also resides in the old country.
Jacob Freund came to the United States when he was twenty-one years of age and for one and one-half years he was located at Cincinnati, Ohio, then for a few weeks at Toledo, Ohio, and eventually settled in Chicago, where he remained for four years. He was a locksmith by trade, an occupation which he had learned from his father as a youth, but he found so little demand for his services in this line that he followed different mechanical work until April, 1884, when he came to Seymour, Wisconsin, and purchased a partly improved farm of sixty acres, on which he built a house and barn and later improved his farm and added forty acres more to it. After some years spent on this property, he sold out to engage in the hardware business, under the firm name of Jacob Freund & Company, a style which continued for fifteen months, when he formed a partnership with a Mr. Droeger, under the firm name of Freund & Droeger, a connection that was continued from 1893 until 1902. In the latter year Mr. Freund embarked in the farm machinery business, but after two years turned his attention to the real estate field and since that time he has continued in the latter business, being associated with Mr. Bender.
In 1881, Mr. Freund was united in marriage to Mrs. Walbeurga Mathey, nee Dombocher, who was born in Germany and was the mother of one child by her previous marriage, namely Barnhardt Mathey, who is a resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Freund: Charles, cashier of the First National Bank of Seymour, who married Miss Mayme Myers, a former school teacher of Seymour.
Mr. Freund is independent in political matters, but he has been elected on the democratic ticket to the office of supervisor for eight terms, alderman for twelve years and street commissioner for six or seven years. He was a director for the fair association for one term, and he is now serving as a director in the First National Bank and the Seymour Loan and Trust Company.