Biographies:  Fritz SCHWAHN, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Fritz Schwahn, born in Pommern, Germany, in 1848; came to America and to 
the city of Eau Claire in 1872, where he followed his trade as a butcher, 
until he died.  He was an influential member of the German singing society, 
"Germania," also a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and Odd Fellows.  
In the year 1875 he married Miss Helen Hoefer, who was born in 1852, at 
Wissen in the Rheinprovinz, Germany, and who came to this country in 1870.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 569.