Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Veuve, Charles 
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Author: Past & Present Will County IL 1907

Charles Veuve, who is engaged in the jewelry business at Peotone, is a native 
of Switzerland, having been born in Cernier Coti, Neuehatel, in 1843. He is a 
son of August Veuve, who was a carpenter by trade and thus provided for the 
support of his family. He married Susan Marie Soguel, who was born in 
Switzerland, in which country both spent their entire lives. The father died 
in 1871, at the age of fifty-eight years, and the mother's death occurred in 
1876, at the age of sixty-five years. They were both faithful members of the 
Lutheran Church. Charles Veuve, their only child, obtained his education in 
the common schools of his native land and afterward learned the trade of 
watchmaking there. No other country has ever equaled Switzerland in the 
excellence, beauty and durability of its watches and Mr. Veuve was fortunate 
in receiving his business training therefore in that country. Thinking to 
enjoy better business opportunities in the new world, he came to the United 
States in 1879 and settled at State Center, Iowa. There he engaged in farming 
for four years, after which he removed to Elgin, Illinois, and for twelve 
years was employed in the Elgin Watch Factory. In 1894 he came to Peotone and 
with the money which he had saved from his earnings he established a jewelry 
store and has since been very successful in its conduct. It is the only store 
of the kind in the town and Mr. Veuve carries a good line of jewelry and is 
meeting with desirable prosperity, owing to his enterprise, reasonable prices 
and earnest efforts to please his patrons. He is also engaged in the fitting 
and sale of spectacles and eye-glasses. He is an eye specialist, having been 
graduated from the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology in 
1896. He is thus well qualified to carry on this branch of his business and is 
doing good work therein. Mr. Veuve was married in 1869 in Switzerland to Miss 
Louise Bull, who was born in that country in 1849 and died in this country in 
1887. They were the parents of seven children: Juliette, wife of J. P. Hager, 
who is traveling auditor for a mercantile insurance company and resides in 
Chicago; Marcus, who is in the Elgin Watch Factory; Charles, deceased; 
Marguerite, who is a trained nurse in Chicago; Maurice, who is in the office 
of the American Grass Twine Company in New York city; Augusr, who is employed 
in a wholesale liquor establishment in Chicago; and Jeanne, a trained nurse in 
Hahnemann Hospital in Chicago. Mr. Veuve gives his political support to the 
republican party but has never sought or desired office. He keeps well 
informed on the questions of the day. He is a member of the National Union and 
is also identified with the Modern Woodmen of America. He has never had 
occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in America, for he has 
here found opportunities he sought and in the business world has won success, 
while in social circles he has gained the warm personal regard of many 
friends. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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