BIOGRAPHIES: Peter WACHTER, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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Peter Wachter, mayor of Cumberland, Barron county, was born in the 
principality of Lichtenstein, Germany, October 10, 1849, a son of John and 
Ursula (Cariguit) Wachter, who are both deceased.  His early education was 
received in Germany, where he took a full course in a normal school.  In 
1865 he went to Bludentz, Austria, where he clerked in a store for five 
years.  In 1870 he came to the United States and stopped first at Menomonie, 
Wis., where he worked in a saw-mill for the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company 
during the summer.  The work being too hard for him he then clerked for a 
Mr. Grub two years, after which he went to Baldwin, and with a partner 
opened a store at that place, which he conducted for two years.  He came 
to Barron in 1875 and attended a store for John Quarderer, and drove the 
mail between  there and Clayton and Sand Creek.  He remained in that 
position for five years, then went to Comstock, where he was in charge of 
a store owned by Griggs, Foster & Miller, until June, 1881, when he took a 
trip to Germany, owning to the severe illness of his father, remained there 
until May, 1882.  He then returned to Cumberland, and clerked for the Beaver 
Dam Lumber Co., then was appointed assistant postmaster, and attended to the 
post-office nearly two years, then kept books for O. A. Ritan & Co. until 
January 1, 1885, when he filled the office of clerk of the circuit court 
for two successive terms, and having accepted a position as book-keepter 
for the Beaver Dam Lumber Co., declined the renomination, and has remained 
with them ever since.  Mr. Wachter married, in 1884, at Cumberland, Miss 
Nellie Schaffer, of Dunn county, and two children have been born to them, 
Leo, aged six years, and John Lucius, who died when eighteen months old.  
Politically Mr. Wachter is a strong republican, and was elected mayor of 
Cumberland in 1891.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 511.