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- HISTORY of OUTAGAMIE COUNTY
JOHN SCHEIBE, a well-known citizen and practical agriculturist of Grand Chute township, who is cultivating a farm of ninety-seven acres, was born in Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, August 11, 1862, a son of Edward and Sophia (Ohrenberger) Scheibe, the former of whom was born April 1, 1833, in Saxony, Germany, and the latter in Wittenberg, Germany, May 3, 1839. Edward Scheibe came to America in 1854, and for four years was engaged in following the butcher's trade in Milwaukee, which he had learned in his native country. He then located on farming land in Milwaukee county, which he operated until 1871, and in that year settled in Freedom township, where he still resides. During the Civil War he served as a private in a Wisconsin volunteer regiment. His wife died April 13, 1900, having been the mother of the following children: Reynold, who resides on the old homestead; Herman, engaged in the blacksmith business at Apple Creek; John; Emma, who married John Westtreicher, a merchant of Evanston, Illinois; Laura, deceased; Edward, a resident of Freedom township; Robert, who also lives in Freedom township; Gustave, a merchant of Evanston, Illinois; and Ida, who is deceased. John Scheibe attended school in Freedom township, and at the age of twenty-one years began working at the carpenter's trade, following it for fourteen years, the first three years of which he spent under one employer. He then engaged in contracting on his own account, continuing in this line for eleven years, when he purchased a farm in Freedom township. After four years there he sold his property and bought the farm which he now owns, a fertile, well-kept tract of ninety-seven acres, on which he has carried on general farming to the present time. He is a Republican in his political views, but has not found time to engage actively in public matters. His religious connection is with St. Peter's Church, Freedom. On April 9, 1889, Mr. Scheibe was married to Sophia Launstein, born in Center township, Outagamie county, April 23, 1870, daughter of Ferdinand and Wilhelmina (Weggie) Launstein, natives of Germany. Mr. Launstein came to America with his parents when a small child, and grew to manhood in Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, where he bought a farm, and in 1868 came to Outagamie county, locating on a good farm near Apple Creek, where he is now living retired. Two children were born to him and his wife: Mrs. Scheibe, and Anna, wife of William Schroeder, living at Apple Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Scheibe have had seven children: Edward, residing at home; Adeline, the wife of Fred Buss, a farmer of Freedom township; Amanda and Esther, residing at home; Victor, who is deceased; and Chester and Archibald, residing at home .
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1862 - 1929 (67 years)