Biographies:  William Heinrich STEIN, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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William Heinrich Stein, born in 1856, in Schleswig-Holsteen, Germany, came 
to this county in 1882, and lived in the city of Eau Claire, where he 
followed his trade as butcher; occasionally owned and worked farms in the 
vicinity of the city.  He is a member of the German singing society, 
"Germania," and the German-American Society of Eau Claire county.  Mr. 
Stein married in 1884.  His wife was formerly Miss Augusta Kohlke, who was 
born in 1864, in Pommern, Germany.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 566.