Frambach, Colonel Henry Augustus

Other Events:

• International Arrival/Departure: 12 Mar 1812; Vacation to Bernuda
• 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; First Mayor of Kaukauna
• News Mention: 11 Jun 1886; Kaukauna Times
• 1890 Census: 1890, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Kaukauna Page 04 Line 01
• Biography: 1891; Biography in the lion of the Fox page 096
• 1895 State Census: 1895, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1900 Census: 1900, Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, USA
• 1910 Census: 1910, Cheboygan, Cheboygan, Michigan, USA
• Will: 9 Mar 1915
• Obituary: Aft 10 Mar 1921
• Biography: Aft 1921
• Biography: Aft 1921
• News Mention: 20 Apr 1962; Kaukauna Times
• Media: 15 Feb 2010; Video of Henry Frambach (.3gp video length= 4.09 min)
• News Mention: 15 Sep 2010; Hall of Fame, Papermaking Industry

Notes:

International Arrival/Departure:
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

News Mention:
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.

1895 State Census:
Listed head of houshold, 6 men 5 women all born US

1910 Census:
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

Biography:
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:
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:
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.

Media:
Inducted into the Papermakers Hall of Fame in 2010.

News Mention:
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.

Henry married Claspill, Francis M. "Fannie" 8 Nov 1864, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA. Francis (daughter of Claspill, John Henry and Lambertson, Sarah) was born Abt Apr 1847, , , Indiana, USA; died 20 Dec 1920, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1900 Census: 1900, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Obituary: 15 Dec 1943; Kaukauna Times

Notes:

1900 Census:
William Gray 47
Catharine Gray 33
Sasha Claspill 75
Delia Daily 37
Alice Dailey 11
William Hoyt 21
Annie Tritrene 16

Catherine married Gray, William 24 Nov 1885, , Cook County, Illinois, USA. William was born Abt Jun 1852, , , Pennsylvania, USA; died 29 Apr 1915, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Education - High School: 1894, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1920 Census: 1920, Cheboygan, Cheboygan, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School Class of 1894

1920 Census:
Mary O'Brien 74
Charles O'Brien 42 [22]
Arthur Frambach boarder 40

Other Events:

• Education - High School: Abt 1896; Kaukauna High School 1896 Football Team
• 1920 Census: 1920, San Fernando, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Death Record - Civil: 29 Dec 1954

Notes:

Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School's first football team, 1896; back row, Henry Kircher, T; Dave Reese, T; Henry Gerharz, G; Prof. Allen, Principal; Charles Chamberlin, T; "Dutch" Hoenig, C; and Knight Hallock, G.; in the middle are Winn Green, E; Paul Hallock, RH; Capt. Charles Frambach; FB; Jake Miller, LH; and Tom Malone, E; in front are Ed Frambach, Q; and Earl Nugent, Q. PH 1039; Date: 1896; Source: KPL

1920 Census:
Edgar E Frambach 41
Estelle H Frambach 40
Eugene Frambach 3

Death Record - Civil:
FRAMBACH EDGAR EUGENE 09/23/1878
CLASPILL
FRAMBACH
M
WISCONSIN
LOS ANGELES(19)
12/29/1954
560-22-2217
76 yrs

Edgar married Hubbard, Estelle 23 Sep 1903, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Estelle was born 10 Jul 1880, , , Kansas, USA; died 8 May 1978, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Education - High School: Abt 1896; Kaukauna High School Football Team