Biographies from The History of Columbia County,
Wisconsin, 1880 


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From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880,
publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page
926-927

SAMUEL SCHULZE, son of Benjamin and Johanna SCHULZE;
born in Saxony, Prussia, July 22, 1845; came to
America in 1850, arriving in Portage on the 28th of
July of that year.  In 1863, commenced learning his
trade - tinsmith - with I. W. BACON, with whom he
remained six years, with the exception of about seven
months while in the army.  He entered the United
States service Feb. 14, 1865, as a member of Co. D,
46th W.V.I, and was mustered out Sep. 27, following.
At the expiration of his six years' service with Mr.
BACON, he went to Virginia City, Mont.; returning, he
was with his brother Henry for awhile in Chicago; then
purchased a stock of hardware of Charles GOODYEAR and
commenced business in 1876, in Portage, in partnership
with his brother Frank, who died May 22, 1879.  Is now
carrying on an extensive hardware store.  Has been a
member of the I.O.O.F. since 1868.

GERHARD SCHUMACHER was born in Cologne, Prussia, April
12, 1840; he emigrated to America in 1854, locating in
Milwaukee; remained there about two years, and then
came to Portage, and engaged in clerking for N.H. WOOD
& Co., and continued to clerk for about eleven years;
has been in business for himself since April 1869,
under the firm name of SCHUMACHER, SCHULZE & Bro., for
three years, when Fred W. SCHULZE withdrew, the firm
name then became SCHUMACHER & SCHULZE, and has
remained so up to the present time.  He was married at
Portage on march 4, 1857, to Wilhelmina SCHULZE; she
was born in Saxony; they have five children - Fred W.,
Samuel M., Milton, Benjamin and Ferdinand.

GUSTAVUS A. SELBACK was born in Prussia May 1, 1838,
and came to America in 1857, locating at Columbus,
Ohio, where he resided until the breaking out of the
war, when he enlisted in Co. F, 13th O.V.I., served
six months and eight months in the 9th O.V.C., and in
August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. M, 9th O.V.C., and
was in all the engagements of Kilpatrick's cavalry.
After the war, he remained in Columbus about a year;
in the fall of 1869, he located at Appleton, Wis., and
engaged in publishing the Appleton Volksfruend, the
first German paper published there, and continued its
publication for three years, when he again returned to
Ohio, and started the Mansfield Courier, the first
German paper at Mansfield, conducted that paper a year
and a half, when he returned to Appleton, spending
eight months there, when he came to Portage in 1874,
and has been conducting the Columbia County Wecker
ever since.  Mr. SELBACH was married at Columbus,
Ohio, in the fall of 1868, to Mary BUERKLE; she is a
native of Baden, Germany; they have six children -
Matilda, Lizzie, Charles, Lydia, Gerhart and Lotta. He
is a member of the A.O.U.W.

GEORGE SHACKELL, son of Thomas and Mary (TYRRELL)
SHACKELL, was born near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England,
June 15, 1821; came to Portage in 1853, making a
contract to build a house for Judge DIXON, the first
brick house erected in Portage; he was the first mason
in forty-five years, the leading mason of Portage. Mr.
SHACKELL was married in Souldern, Oxfordshire,
England, Oct 17, 1843, to Elizabeth BISHOP, daughter
of Richard and Rachael GOUGH, born at that place Sept.
3, 1822; they have five children - William, born in
England, July 15, 1846, who is a mason in Portage;
Elizabeth, born July 17, 1850, in England; George T.,
born Jan. 9, 1856, at Portage; Richard G., born Sept.
7, 1859, and Francis W., born Sept. 6, 1861.  They
have lost three children - John Gough, born in
England, Aug. 2, 1844, and died at Portage, Jan. 29,
1855; Mary, born in England, June 25, 1843, and died
June 28, 1843, and Edgar Gaugh, born in Portage Jan.
9, 1858, and died Aug. 24, 1858.  Mr. SHACKELL is
serving a second term as Supervisor; he is a member of
St. John's Church; Vestryman of that church for six
years, the corner-stone of which he assisted Bishop
KEMPER in laying.  His children have all completed a
full course in the high school.

NOEL K SHATTUCK was born in Bakersfield, Franklin Co.,
Vt., May 9, 1822 and lived there until 1845, then
moving to Hamburg, Erie Co., N.Y., where he taught in
the academy, as Principal, two years; he then went to
Moundsville, Va. (now West Virginia), and engaged in
teaching there from 1847 to 1872, in the academy, a
classical school; was proprietor and Principal of the
institution, which was known as Moundsville Academy.
Mr. SHATTUCK received his education at Bakersfield
Academy, Bakersfield, Vt.; he came to Wisconsin in
1872, locating at Portage; he engaged in a commercial
college a few months, then engaged in general
insurance business; Mr. S. has held the office of
Superintendent of City Schools in Portage.  Married at
Moundsville, Va., July 12, 1853, to Emily S. PURDY;
she was born at Moundsville Aug. 31, 1833; have five
children - Elizabeth Lucelia, Louis L., Emily J.,
Laura V. and Charles B.

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