BIOGRAPHIES: John P. SALSCHEIDER, Barron, Barron County, WI

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John P. Salscheider, secretary and treasurer of the Barron Lumber Company,
is regarded as one of the coming young men of the county. He served during
the World War first as sergeant and then as lieutenant. He is secretary and
treasurer of the Barron Business Men's Club, he is keeper of records and
seals in McKinley Lodge, No. 172, K. P., Barron; he is a popular member of
C. F. Schmidt Lodge, K. C., at Rice Lake, Wis., and he is taking an
interest in everything that has for its object the advancement of the city
and county. He is hard working, thrifty, active and popular, and his
friends predict for him a still more prosperous future. Mr. Salscheider was
born in Amherst, Wis., Sept. 6, 1887, son of Adam and Esther (Monnette)
Salscheider. He passed through the common schools of his native town,
graduated from the business course at the Merrill (Wis.) High School, and
worked his way through the Wausau (Wis.) Business College by clerking in a
hotel at that place. At seventeen years of age, he was employed as
bookkeeper at Antigo, Wis., and remained there until 1909 when he went to
St. Paul as cashier of the Twin City Taxicab Co. In 1913 he came to Barron
City as cashier and bookkeeper for the Barron Lumber Co. and in the spring
of the following year purchased an interest and assumed his present
position. He entered the World War service June 7, 1917, and had charge of
the first group of draftees which went from Barron County to Camp Grant,
Rockford, Ill. He there served eight months as sergeant in the 341st
Infantry. He was then transferred to the Quartermasters' Training School at
Jacksonville, Fla., where he served as instructor for five months. Oct. 1,
1918, he was commissioned second lieutenant, and was sent to Spartansburg,
S.C., as assistant division quartermaster for the 96th Division. There he
was discharged, Dec. 12, 1918, and at once returned to Barron and resumed
his business.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 113-114.