BIOGRAPHIES: WILLIAM HINTZMAN Town of Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Laura Abood <wabood@msn.com> 3/19/2006
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WILLIAM HINTZMAN, a veteran of the Civil War, now passed
away, who was also an early settler in Section 4, town of
Menomonie, was born in Germany, Sept. 25, 1828, where after
arriving at manhood he was married to Wilhelmina Lemke.  In
1858 they came as emigrants to the United States, and to the
state of Wisconsin, settling in the town of Concord, near
Watertown.  On June 20, 1864, Mr. Hintzman enlisted for
Civil War service in Company C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry and
remained a United States soldier until he received an
honorable discharge on June 2, 1865.  He was one of
Sherman's army on the march through Georgia and to the sea,
and in after years his comrades used to tell stories of his
endurance during that famous campaign, and he, himself, used
to relate how the soldiers, in destroying railroads, used to
bend the rails by twisting them when heated around telegraph
poles.  One of his first experiences in the war was a
harrowing one, as he was in a railway collision in which
three of his intimate friends were killed and it was his
melancholy duty to help bury them.  After his discharge from
the army he returned to Concord, Wis., where he remained
until the spring of 1870, when he moved with his family to
Dunn County, first stopping in Menomonie.  He soon, however,
bought a tract of 120 acres of wild land in Section 4, town
of Menomonie, and began the development of a farm.  He was
active in town affairs, helping to build the first roads and
schools and assisting new settlers as they came in.  In 1891
he retired and took up his residence in Menomonie, where he
remained until his wife's death in March, 1903.  After that
home tie had been severed he returned to the farm, where he
passed the remaining eight years of his life with his son
August, dying March 25, 1911.  He was a member of William
Evans Post, No. 58, G. A. R., of Menomonie, which he joined
on June 9, 1894, and was a man with a wide circle of
friends, whose loss was deeply deplored.  Mr. and Mrs.
William Hintzman were the parents of eight children, whose
record in brief is as follows:  Ernestine, now Mrs. Henry
Huber of the town of Tainter, Dunn County; Frank, and John,
who were both drowned in Lake Menomonie two days after the
family arrived in this county; August F., operating the old
home farm; Amelia, who married Conrad Bliem and is now a
widow residing at Dunfur, Ore.; William, deceased; Minnie,
wife of Frank Mathews of Deer Park, and Emma, who is Mrs. J.
E. Ziegler of Portland, Ore.