John Treber Biography


	This biography appears on pages 525-526 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				JOHN TREBER.

	John Treber is identified with various business enterprises of 
Deadwood. He has long been a wholesale liquor merchant of the city and 
is now connected with the ice trade and also with banking interests. He 
was born in Hochheim-on-the-Main, Germany, March 2, 1853, a son of 
Philip and Margaret (Hofmann) Treber, who were also natives of 
Hochheim, as were their parents. The father was born in 1812 and the 
mother in 1818 He engaged in the business of growing grapes and 
manufacturing wine, as did his father. Representatives of the family 
served in various official positions in Germany for many years, and 
Philip Treber was for a quarter of a century city treasurer. John 
Treber has in his possession a history of his native town which was 
published by an old schoolmate about the year 1900 and which he takes 
great pleasure in reading. His father served in the army from 1832 
until 1838 and the grandfather fought under Napoleon. He was wounded in 
battle, causing him the loss of a foot. 

	John Treber was the second born in a family of four children. He 
attended school in his native town and when twenty-one years of age 
came to America with all uncle, landing at New York on the 19th of 
September, 1874. He went direct to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he found 
employment and also spent considerable time in St. Louis as a brewer In 
April, 1877, he left Leavenworth and traveled with ox teams to Fort 
Pierre and thence freighted to Deadwood, where he arrived in the latter 
part of May, bringing with him a stock of liquors and cigars. He at 
once engaged in business on the site where his present wholesale house 
now stands but originally he occupied a small frame building. He 
estate" fished a wholesale liquor house and has continuously carried on 
the business but has also extended his efforts into other fields, as he 
is now engaged in the manufacture of fee at Pluma, adjacent to 
Deadwood, is also connected with Hotel Franklin, is a stockholder in 
the First National Bank of Deadwood and is an investor in various 
mining projects. He is a man of good business discernment and sound 
judgment and his affairs have been so capably managed as to bring to 
him substantial success. 

	On the 11th of June, 1878, Mr. Treber was united in marriage in 
Leavenworth, Kansas, to Miss Hermina Pasch, who was born near Stettin, 
Germany, and when six months old was brought to America by her parents, 
who crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1854 and settled at Hermann, 
Missouri, having made the trip up the Mississippi river from New 
Orleans by boat. Both her father and mother died in Hermann. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Treber have been born three children. John A., who is engaged in 
the drug business in Deadwood, married Miss Belding, of Deadwood, who 
died April 26, 1910, leaving a son, John Belding, who was born April 
10, 1910, and resides with his father. After losing his first wife John 
A. Treber was married May 15, 1913, to Miss Amelia Waldschmidt, and 
they have a daughter, Lillian, born February 22, 1915. William 
Lawrence, the second son, associated with his father in business, was 
married May 6, 1913, to Miss Madeline Doyle, a native of Deadwood. 
Albert Philip, who is in the employ of the Consolidated Light & Power 
Company of Deadwood, was married in 1908 to Miss Edith Bartelson, a 
native of Pennsylvania, and they have one son, William, born in July, 
1910, and a daughter, Dorothy, whose birth occurred March 29, 1915. 

	Mr. Treber holds membership with the Benevolent Protective Order 
of Elks and the Eagles and he belongs also to the Roman Catholic 
church. In politics he is a republican and for twenty-four years he has 
served on the city council of Deadwood, while in 1910 his fellow 
townsmen elected him to represent them in the state legislature. His 
long connection with the city council indicates clearly the confidence 
and trust reposed in him in relation to public affairs, and that he has 
worked for the benefit and upbuilding of the city is a self-evident 
fact.