Marshall-Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Wullschleger, Robert 1863 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ROBERT WULLSCHLEGER.

    Robert Wullschleger, who for years was one of Marshall county's best known
and most successful building contractors, operating in partnership in that line
with his brother, Jacob Wullschleger, but who since 1907 has been farming in
Center township, where he has made a decisive success of his farming operations,
is a native of the republic of Switzerland, but has been a resident of this
country since 1882. He was born in the canton Aargau, November 3, 1863, son of
Isaac and Anna Wullschleger, both natives of that country, who spent their lives
there and who were the parents of nine children, all of whom save the
first-born, who died in Switzerland, came to this county and further reference
to whom is made in a biographical sketch relating to Jacob Wullschleger, elder
brother of the subject of this sketch, presented elsewhere in this volume, to
which the attention of the reader is respectfully invited for additional
information in this connection.

    Reared in his native Switzerland, Robert Wullschleger was early trained to
the trade of a carpenter, that having been his father's vocation, as was his
elder brother, Jacob Wullschleger, and in the fall of 1882 the two brothers came
to this country and located in Livingston county, Illinois, expecting to engage
there in building contracting. Not finding conditions there to their liking,
they came to Kansas and worked in and about Wichita for a year, at the end of
which time, in 1884, they came to Marshall county and located at Marysville,
where they found an excellent field for their activities as building contractors
and where they remained in business for twenty-eight years, during which period
they built many of the best buildings, not only at the county seat, but in other
parts of the county, including nearly all the buildings at Home. In 1907 the
brothers retired from the contracting business and invested in farm lands in
Center township, where both are now living and where they are prospering. Robert
Wullschleger first bought a quarter of a section, the place on which he now
lives, and as he prospered there bought a quarter section adjoining on the west
and is now farming the half section. In addition to his general farming he is
giving considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock and is
doing very well. His residence and farm buildings are of an excellent type,
designed throughout for comfort and convenience. His residence is built of stone
and is reached by a paved driveway. The farm buildings are in keeping with the
same, the farm plant being one of the best and most substantial in that part of
the county. Mr. Wullschleger is a Republican and has given his earnest attention
to local political affairs since becoming a resident of Marshall county, but has
not been a seeker after office. He and his family are members of the Evangelical
church and take a proper interest in church work and other good works of the
community in which they live.

    Robert Wullschleger has been twice married. It was in 1886, two years after
he located at Marysville, that he was united in marriage to Louise
Brandenburger, who died on February 5, 1892, leaving four children, Robert and
Richard, who are farming one of their father's farms; Freda, who is keeping
house for her brothers, and Emma, who is at home. On December 2, 1895, Mr.
Wullschleger married, secondly, Elsie Keller, also a native of the republic of
Switzerland, who was born in the canton Bern on October 15, 1871, a daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Luders) Keller, who later became residents of this county
and here spent their last days. Mrs. Wullschleger has been a resident of this
country since 1889, when she and her brother, Amiel, came to Kansas and located
in Marshall county. A year later their father and their brother, Samuel, joined
them here and in 1891 the mother and Amelia, Albert and Fred came over and
joined the family. Mrs. Wullschlegers eldest sister, Bertha, lives in her native
land and she had another brother, Gottfried, who died there. Samuel Keller and
his wife both died in 1909.

    To Robert and Elsie (Keller) Wullschleger six children have been born,
namely: Louise, who was graduated from the Marysville high school and is now
teaching school; William, born on June 21, 1900; Albert, February 24, 1902;
Emil, May 20, 1905; John, July 7, 1907, and Margaret, January 4, 1909.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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