BIOGRAPHIES: Charles MAVES, Elk Mound, Dunn Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Laura Abood 16 March 2004 ************************************************************************ CHARLES MAVES, now living in the town of Elk Mound after a life of agricultural achievement worthy of record, was born in Germany, Sept. 18, 1848, son of Gottlieb and Caroline (Yoekes) Maves. The family came to the United States in 1855, proceeding west to Milwaukee and for some years making their home in the country not far from that place. In 1859 they moved to St. Croix County and for one year thereafter worked a rented farm. During the next year Gottlieb Maves worked for a man named Charles Parker, and then he and his family moved to the bluffs near Alma in Buffalo County, where they spent a winter. Then they moved to Dunn County, of which Mr. Maves had received a favorable impression on a previous visit, when he had been accompanied by Christopher Blume. This removal was made in 1861 and for the first year the family rented what was known as the Tyler farm. In the second year Mr. Maves bought 160 acres of wild land on Iron Creek in the town of Red Cedar. This was railroad land and had just cone into the market. He now began the development of a farm, putting up log buildings and going through all the usual routine of a pioneer settler, making slow but gradual progress until he had a good piece of his land cleared and under the plow and had replaced his log buildings with others of frame construction. After conducting the farm until about 1885, he sold it to a nephew, Albert Maves, he and his wife giving up active work and taking up their residence in Eau Claire, which was their home for some years. But finding themselves getting old they left the city and moved to the farm of their son Charles in Section 7, town of Elk Mound, Dunn County, where Mrs. Caroline Maves died in January, 1895. Her husband survived her some years, finally dying in a hospital at Superior in March, 1907. Charles Maves acquired a public school education and grew to manhood on his parents' farm on Iron Creek. At the age of 17 he started out for himself, going to work onthe farm of Ausman Bros. in the town of Elk Mound. Later he spent a summer as an employee in the shingle mill in Menomonie, and afterwards worked in a mill in Cedar Falls. In the mean while he had bought a farm of 120 acres in Section 7, town of Elk Mound, all wild land onto which he now moved, building a log house and log stables on it and beginning the development of the land. From time to time he bought other land until he had ten 40-acre tracts--six forties in Section 7, one in Section 6, and three in Section 8. In 1915 he built a fine barn of 36 x 98 feet with full basement and modern equipment including a good water supply system. His log house gave way to a fine modern dwelling and he had provided a good set of out-buildings. He kept Holstein-Friesian cattle and prospered as a farmer and dairyman until 1916, when he sold the place to his son Herbert A., and, putting up a residence and fine set of buildings on his 120-acre tract in Section 8, he moved to it and farmed it until1921. He then sold it to his son Bert T., who in turn sold it two years later to his brother Victor, the latter now being its proprietor. Our subject then returned to his old home, where he is now living with his son Herbert. For many years during his active period he served his district as school treasurer, and he is a man well known and respected throughout this region for his ability and integrity. Charles Maves was married Jan. 19, 1869, to Augusta Heim, who was born in Germany Sept. 20, 1849, and who came to America when ten years old, her parents settling in Illinois, but later moving to Eau Galle, Dunn County, Wis. After more than half a century of happy wedlock, she passed away Oct. 31, 1920. They had been blessed with nine children, namely: Lydia, Albert, Carl, Bert, Max, Victor, Herbert A., Nellie and George. Lydia is now keeping house for her brother Victor. Albert, who has a blacksmith shop at Rusk, married Linda Albright and has three children, Harold A., Florence and Grace. Carl, who resides in Madison, where he is presiding elder of the Evangelical Church, married Emma Hohlbine and has two children, Wilbur and Ruth. Bert T., now in Salem, Ore., married Hulda Schultz and has two children, Lawrence and Stanley. Max, a farmer in Spring Brook township, married Ida Schafer and has six children, Stella, Loraine, Irving, Verne, Willard and Irene. Victor is a farmer in the town of Elk Mound. Herbert., owner of the old home farm, and now town supervisor, married Dorothy Luethe and has three children, Paul and Phyllis (twins) and Hazel. Nellie is the wife of Edward Laustad, a farmer in the town of Tainter, and has one child, Edward Charles. Geroge, who is farming at Baraboo, Wis., first married Ella Haldemann, by whom he ahd one child, Melvin. After the death of his first wife he married Alma Gasser. Charles Maves and family are members of the Evangelical Church, and he has been a very active worker in the congregation in the town of Tainter. -Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," pages 419-420 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm