Biographical Sketches:  GUSTAV KUSTERMANN


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1118-1119

Ninth Congressional District. Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Oconto
and Outagamie counties. Population, 1900 - 179,097.

GUSTAV KUSTERMANN (Rep.), of Green Bay, was born in Detmold, Germany,
May 24, 1850; received his education at the academy of his native city
(Gymnasium Leopoldinum), from which he was graduated in 1864. After
having been employed for several years in a wholesale dry goods house
in Hamburg, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1868,
settling in Green Bay, Wis., where he and his family still reside and
where for over thirty years he has been engaged in the mercantile
business. He has held various public positions, and from 1892 to 1896
served as postmaster of Green Bay. In 1901 he received the appointment
as member of the state board of control, of which he became president
in 1904. He was elected to the 60th congress in 1906, receiving 14,180
votes against 8,689 for Philip A. Badour (Dem.) and 547 for Joseph E.
Harris (Soc. Dem.).