FERDINAND EFFINGER - Biography

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Commemorative and Biographical Record of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, 
WI. Chicago: Ogle, 1901, p 236-239


FERDINAND EFFINGER, one of the most energetic, enterprising and prosperous 
business men of Baraboo [Sauk County], WI, was born in Rottweil, 
Dotternhausen, Wurtemburg, Germany, 03 Aug 1848, a son of Joseph and Veronika 
EFFINGER, lifelong residents of that country, where the father successfully 
engaged in the brewery and cooperage business.

Leaving home at the age of 18 years, our subject went to Milhausen, Alsace, 
where he worked in a brewery for a time. In Nov 1869 he entered the German 
army and remained in the service for three years, during which time he 
participated in the Franco-Prussian war. Although he took part in nine 
hard-fought battles, he fortunately escaped uninjured. Later he was employed 
in a brewery in Donau, Eschingen, Baden, on the head waters of the river 
Danube.

Bidding goodby to his native land, Mr. EFFINGER went to London, England, in 
1873, and was there employed in a brewery for about a year. In Apr 1874 he 
sailed for the U. S. and landed in NY city. As a cooper he worked in a sugar 
house at Hastings-on-the-Hudson [Westchester County, NY] for one year and 
nine months, and on 01 Jan 1876, returned to NY City, and he was employed as 
a brewer and cooper until Oct 1879, when he came to WI, locating at Baraboo 
in Nov 1879. His first employment here was in the capacity of superintendent 
of a brewery owned by Mrs. BENDER, and a few months later, in company with 
Adolph BENDER, he rented the establishment and [p 239] embarked in business 
on his own account. This relation continued for one year, when he purchased 
the interest of his partner and has since carried on the business alone with 
marked success. In Jul 1884 his plant was destroyed by fire, and until his 
present large brewery was completed the following year he handled Milwaukee 
beer. His plant has a capacity of 5,000 barrels per annum and he furnishes 
employment to four men.

In 1881 Mr. EFFINGER was united in marriage with Miss Bertha MILKE, a native 
of Pommerin, Germany, and to them have been born five children: Bertha, 
Martha, Lilly, Frederick Carl and Ferdinand Joseph. The family attend the 
Lutheran church, and Mr. EFFINGER holds membership in the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen. He is not identified with any political party, and is now 
most creditably and acceptably serving his second term as supervisor from the 
third ward of Baraboo. He is a prominent and active member of the Baraboo 
Mannerchoir, was one of the prime movers in its organization, and has been 
very instrumental in making it one of the leading mannerchoirs in this part 
of the state.