CARL STOLL, Biography / Grant Township, Clare County, Michigan 
 
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Biographical History of Northern Michigan.  B.F. Bowen & Company, 1905. 
 
CARL STOLL 
 
In the anxious and laborious struggle for an honorable competence on the part of 
the average man fighting the every-day battle of life, there is but little to attract 
the idle reader in search of a sensational chapter; but for a mind fully awake to 
the reality and meaning of human existence there are noble and immortal 
lessons in the life of the man who without other means than a clear mind, a 
strong arm and a true heart conquers fortune and gains not only the temporal 
rewards of his toil but also that which is greater and higher, the respect and 
confidence of those with whom his years of active labor have placed him in 
contact.  America is distinctively a cosmopolitan nation; she has drawn from the 
four quarters of the world and rapidly assimilated the heterogeneous elements.  
To no country, however, does she owe more than to Germany, from whose 
provinces have come men of sturdy integrity, determined purpose and marked 
intellectual vigor--men who have proved both builders and conservators.  The 
German-American is in the average case imbued most thoroughly with the spirit 
of our national institutions and brings to bear his strength of manhood in 
perpetuating and advancing the higher interests of the republic.  The subject of 
this sketch is known and honored as one of the representative and public-spirited 
citizens of Clare county, where he has maintained his home for more that thirty 
years and where he has attained success through his well directed efforts in 
connection with the great basic art of agriculture, his well improved and valuable 
farm being located in Grant township.  He came from Germany to the United 
States when a young man and has made his life count for good in all its relations, 
while he has so ordered his course as to merit and receive the unqualified 
confidence and regard of this fellow men.  He is at the present time a member of 
the board of supervisors of his county and has held other offices which have 
signified the confidence reposed in him by the people of the community in which 
he has so long maintained his home. 
 
Mr. STOLL was born in Wittenburg, Germany, on the 26th of April, 1846, and in 
the excellent schools of his fatherland he secured his educational training.  He 
was married in his native land and in the autumn of 1868, at the age of twenty-
two years, he emigrated thence to America, in company with his wife, believing 
that in the new world were offered superior opportunities for the attaining of 
success through individual effort.  He came to Michigan and located in 
Washtenaw county, where he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits 
until 1873, when he came to Clare county, first settling in Sheridan township, 
where he resided about three years and then removed to Grant township, where 
he has ever since continued to reside, his fine farm of one hundred and sixty 
acress being located in section 10, while about sixty-five acres of the same are 
under a high state of cultivation.  The improvements on the farm are of the most 
substantial and attractive order and include a fine brick residence, which was 
erected by Mr. STOLL. 
 
  In politics our subject accords a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and 
he has shown a lively interest in public affairs of a local nature, while he has 
been called upon to serve in various offices of trust and responsibility.  For the 
past several years he has been the representative of his township on the board 
of county supervisors, of which he has proved a conservative, practical and 
valuable member, while for many years he has been school director of his 
district.  He was for two years incumbent of the office of treasurer of the 
township, while for one year he served as township clerk, and in each of these 
offices his course was marked by the utmost fidelity, good judgement and 
discrimination. 
 
In his native land, Mr. STOLL was united in marriage to Miss KATHERINE 
STOPPER, whose death occurred at the the home in Grant township, in the 
autumn of 1890, at which time she was forty-six years of age.  In 1891 he 
married Miss SOPHIA BAUER, who presides most graciously over his attractive 
home.  Of the seven children in the family seven were born of the first marriage 
and none of the second, their names, in order of birth, being as follows: 
FREDERICKA, SOPHIA, CARL, JOHN, MARY, FREDERICK and JULIUS.