Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Engelbert SCHUELLER of Appleton 1856-

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SUBJECT: Biography of Engelbert SCHUELLER of Appleton 1856-
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 15, 1999
SURNAMES: SCHUELLER, MUELLER, HOPFENSPERGER, GUENTERT
SOURCE: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, page 644, 1911


BIOGRAPHY:
SCHUELLER, Engelbert

commissioner of the city of Appleton, and for years a well-known newspaper man and musician of this city, was born
in Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, January 30, 1856, a son of Lawrence and Katherine (Mueller)
Schueller. The parents of Mrs. Schueller, who were natives of Germany, came to the United as young people and
were married in
Wisconsin. Lawrence Schueller came to Ozaukee county in 1846, and his life was spent there in agricultural pursuits,
his death occuring in 1905, while his widow survived him two years. They were the parents
of twelve children, of whom eleven grew to maturity and ten are still alive. Engelbert Schueller received a public
school education and also studied at home, and at the agem of eighteen years he began to teach. About this time he
also started to study music, and entered St. Francis Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1878. From that
year until 1881 he taught school in Brookly, New York, and from 1881 until 1896 was at St. Joseph's School in
Appleton, being organist in the church during the same period. Since that time he has been organist at St. Mary's
Church. For a number of years he did editorial work and was manager off the Appleton Wecker und Samstags
Bote, and in 1911 he was elected commissioner of Appleton, the first time the city has had that form of government.
Mr. Schueller and his family attend St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and in
political matters he is Democratic. Mr. Schueller is the owner of a fine farm in Calumet county. On May 9, 1882, he
was married to Helene Hopfensperger, who came to America about 1846, locating in Calumet county, and later
removed to Outagamie county, where he was engaged in butchering. He had fourteen children, of whom seven
survive. Mr. and Mrs. Schueller have had the following children: Jennie, who married Joseph Guentert, a resident of
Appleton; Adelaide and Louise, at home; Aloysius, studying at Insbruck, Germany; Mary, Lawrence, Cecile and
Henry, all at home; and Joseph, who died at the age of seven years.