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SUBJECT: Biography of Rudolph J. TELLOCK of Greenville 1861-
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 14, 1999
SURNAMES: TELLOCK, BECKER, SCHMIDT, PYRATZ
SOURCE: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin page 600, 1911


BIOGRAPHY:
RUDOLPH J. TELLOCK,

the owner of a farm of 140 acres in Greenville township, has also been identified with the grass matting business in
this section for a number of years. He was born in Dantzig, Pomerania, Germany, March 20, 1861, a son of John and
Doris Tellock, who came to the United States in 1867, locating in Wolf River township, Winnebago county,
Wisconsin, where Mr. Tellock was engaged in farming until his death in 1891, his wife having passed away in April,
1888. They had a family of eight children, Rudolph J. being the fifth born. He attended school in Wolf River
township, and when only siteen years of age went to work on the river, where he worked for twenty years, rising to
the position of crew manager. he then lbegan working for the Oshkosh Grass Matting Company, with which firm he
continued seven years, and in 1888 he moved to Winchester township, where he had a farm of 100 acres, which was
being operated by his sons. He continued to reside there until 1909, when he sold out and came to Greenville
township, where he operates a dairy farm of 140 acres. He is still engaged in the matting business to some extent,
being employed by the Waite Grass Carpet Company of Oshkosh, having charge of the cutting and baling of the grass,
which is shipped fron Minnesota to the factory. Mr. Tellock is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics an
inedependent Republican. On October 8, 1882, he was married to Ottilia Becker, who was born in Wolf River
township, July 4, 1866, daughter of Carl and Ernestina (Schmidt) Becker, natives of
Pomerania, Germany, where the father was born December 26, 1822, and the mother March 12, 1832. They were
married in Germany, and were among the first settlers of Winnebago county, settling there at a time when the nearest
point for supplies was Oshkosh, then a small village, whence they went in a little canoe. Mr. Becker was one of the
first land owners in Winnebago county, and built the first house in Wolf River township. Carl Becker died in that
township in March, 1889, his wife having passed away the month previous. Thirteen children were
born to them, of whom two survive: Mrs. Tellock, and Emil William, a resident of Oshkosh, in the employ of the
Paine Company; Mr. and Mrs. Tellock have had nine children, namely: Frank Elmer, born February 16, 1884;
William Amil John, born March 23, 1886, a cheesemaker of Menasha, Wisconsin, married Alma Pyratz; Lydia,
born May 8, 1888, died April 18, 1889; Emily Henry, born February 20, 1890; Alfred Carl, born April 23, 1892;
Edward Henry, born July 6, 1894; Erwin Ferdinand, born December 17, 1896; Albert Otto, born April 26, 1899, and
Gladys Joy, born August 31, 1902.