Frederick Beilharz Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette 
Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901
Pg. 726-7

FREDERICK BEILHARZ, who, as a blacksmith and wagonmaker, was for many years prominently 
identified with the industrial and business interests of Cassville, Grant county, has 
made his home in that place since 1855, locating there when it was a village of about a 
dozen houses.  As a public-spirited citizen he was actively connected with its early 
development and progress, and after a useful and well-spent life he is now living 
retired, enjoying a well-earned rest.  

Mr. Beilharz was born in Wurternburg, Germany, Oct. 17 1831, a son of Christian and 
Barbara (Kubbler) Beilharz, who spent their entire lives in that country. In their family 
were eight children, namely: Mrs. Christiana Christ, a resident of Buffalo, N. Y.; 
Frederick; Mrs. Barbara Hunter, of Germany; Mrs. Christ, who died in Clayton county, 
Iowa; Fredericka, a resident of Germany; Dora, who resides at the old home in the 
Fatherland; Mrs. Caroline Hoover, of Cassville, Wis.; and John, who came to Cassville in 
1859, and three years later enlisted in the 27th Iowa V. I., with which he served three 
years, and is now living at the Soldiers Home in Iowa.

Frederick Beilharz was the first of the family to come to America. He sailed from 
Rotterdam in April, 1852, and after a long and tedious voyage of fifty-eight days landed 
in New York, June 17, whence he proceeded at once to Buffalo, N. Y.  In that city he 
worked at his trade for two years before coming to Wisconsin. In 1854, at the land office 
in Mineral Point, Wis., he entered a tract of land in Cassville township, Grant county, 
and immediately located thereon, devoting his time and energies to its improvement and 
cultivation until his removal to Cassville in 1855.  Since then he has made his home on 
the block where he now resides. Erecting a shop, he successfully engaged in blacksmithing 
and wagon-making for many years, but has now laid aside the cares and responsibilities of 
business life, and is living retired, enjoying the fruits of former toil. Besides the 
property he owns in Cassville, he still has a good farm in Cassville township, which he 
rents. 

In 1855, at Cassville, Mr. Beilharz was united in marriage with Miss Mary Munch, a native 
of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Rietz) Munch, who, on 
coming to this country, first located in Hoboken, N. J., and in 1855 became residents of 
Cassville, Wis.   Later Mr. Munch, who was a farmer by occupation, moved to Emmetsburg, 
Iowa, where both he and his wife died at an advanced age, she being nearly ninety-two at 
the time of her death.  Their children were Mrs. Mary Beilharz; Mrs. Elizabeth Engler and 
Mrs. Catharine Adrain, both residents of Emmetsburg, Iowa; Lizzie, who died in that 
State; and Henry, who died in Whittemore, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Beilharz have four children: 
(1) Mrs. Lusetta Eisenaggerich, of Dubuque, Iowa, has three children, Freddie, Lucy and 
Arthur.  (2) Fritz, a blacksmith of Cassville, married Lucy Bishop, and they have two 
children, Fred and Emma.  (3) Mrs. Mary Shatkin, whose husband is a merchant of 
Minneapolis, Minn., has four children, Henry, Arnold, Edwin and Fred.   (4) Henry, also a 
blacksmith of Cassville, married Lizzie Gallebrant, and they have three children, Ray, 
Mabel and Blanche.

In his political affiliations Mr. Beilharz is a Republican, having always voted with that 
party since its organization, and lie is now efficiently serving as a member of the city 
council. He is one of the prominent pioneers of Cassville, and is still one of its 
leading and influential citizens.  Socially he is connected with the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, and religiously is a member of the Lutheran Church.