DEATH OF AUGUST GOERKE,
Well-Known Citizen and Business
Man Passes Away at His Home
on Clark Street.
Friends and personal acquaint-
ances of August Goerke were greatly
surprised and shocked Saturday
over the announcement that he was
dead...
August Goerke was born at Frank-
fort on the Main, Germany, Aug. 29,
1845. He came to America in the
spring of 1869 and in December of the
same year went to Eau Claire. He
was a tailor by trade and in 1878 he
came to Stevens Point and had lived
here ever since. He first opened a
shop in the wooden building that for-
merly stood on the north-west corner
of Main street and the public square.
He had been in the tailoring busi-
ness, though in different buildings
ever since, sometimes employing as
many as fifteen hands, until a few
weeks ago when he sold his shop.
During all of these years there was
probably no man in the city who de-
voted more hours to his business that
did Mr. Goerke. He was not a grasping
or penurious man, he gave liberally
when appealed to in behalf of local
affairs, but he was industrious by na-
ture and was careful and prudent in his
business affairs. The result was that
he accumulated a handsome property.
In the summer of 1871[?], in the city
of Chicago, he was married to Miss
Amanda Baum, who survives him.
They had no children and neither of
them have any relatives in this country
or anywhere else so far as either of
them knew.
The funeral was held from the
home next Monday afternoon, at 2
o'clock, Rev. Wilson Mallory officiat-
ing. Interment will follow in Forest
cemetery.
—Stevens Point Daily Journal; Saturday, March 4, 1911
Well-Known Citizen and Business
Man Passes Away at His Home
on Clark Street.
Friends and personal acquaint-
ances of August Goerke were greatly
surprised and shocked Saturday
over the announcement that he was
dead...
August Goerke was born at Frank-
fort on the Main, Germany, Aug. 29,
1845. He came to America in the
spring of 1869 and in December of the
same year went to Eau Claire. He
was a tailor by trade and in 1878 he
came to Stevens Point and had lived
here ever since. He first opened a
shop in the wooden building that for-
merly stood on the north-west corner
of Main street and the public square.
He had been in the tailoring busi-
ness, though in different buildings
ever since, sometimes employing as
many as fifteen hands, until a few
weeks ago when he sold his shop.
During all of these years there was
probably no man in the city who de-
voted more hours to his business that
did Mr. Goerke. He was not a grasping
or penurious man, he gave liberally
when appealed to in behalf of local
affairs, but he was industrious by na-
ture and was careful and prudent in his
business affairs. The result was that
he accumulated a handsome property.
In the summer of 1871[?], in the city
of Chicago, he was married to Miss
Amanda Baum, who survives him.
They had no children and neither of
them have any relatives in this country
or anywhere else so far as either of
them knew.
The funeral was held from the
home next Monday afternoon, at 2
o'clock, Rev. Wilson Mallory officiat-
ing. Interment will follow in Forest
cemetery.
—Stevens Point Daily Journal; Saturday, March 4, 1911
DEATH OF AUGUST GOERKE,
Well-Known Citizen and Business
Man Passes Away at His Home
on Clark Street.
Friends and personal acquaint-
ances of August Goerke were greatly
surprised and shocked Saturday
over the announcement that he was
dead...
August Goerke was born at Frank-
fort on the Main, Germany, Aug. 29,
1845. He came to America in the
spring of 1869 and in December of the
same year went to Eau Claire. He
was a tailor by trade and in 1878 he
came to Stevens Point and had lived
here ever since. He first opened a
shop in the wooden building that for-
merly stood on the north-west corner
of Main street and the public square.
He had been in the tailoring busi-
ness, though in different buildings
ever since, sometimes employing as
many as fifteen hands, until a few
weeks ago when he sold his shop.
During all of these years there was
probably no man in the city who de-
voted more hours to his business that
did Mr. Goerke. He was not a grasping
or penurious man, he gave liberally
when appealed to in behalf of local
affairs, but he was industrious by na-
ture and was careful and prudent in his
business affairs. The result was that
he accumulated a handsome property.
In the summer of 1871[?], in the city
of Chicago, he was married to Miss
Amanda Baum, who survives him.
They had no children and neither of
them have any relatives in this country
or anywhere else so far as either of
them knew.
The funeral was held from the
home next Monday afternoon, at 2
o'clock, Rev. Wilson Mallory officiat-
ing. Interment will follow in Forest
cemetery.
—Stevens Point Daily Journal; Saturday, March 4, 1911
Well-Known Citizen and Business
Man Passes Away at His Home
on Clark Street.
Friends and personal acquaint-
ances of August Goerke were greatly
surprised and shocked Saturday
over the announcement that he was
dead...
August Goerke was born at Frank-
fort on the Main, Germany, Aug. 29,
1845. He came to America in the
spring of 1869 and in December of the
same year went to Eau Claire. He
was a tailor by trade and in 1878 he
came to Stevens Point and had lived
here ever since. He first opened a
shop in the wooden building that for-
merly stood on the north-west corner
of Main street and the public square.
He had been in the tailoring busi-
ness, though in different buildings
ever since, sometimes employing as
many as fifteen hands, until a few
weeks ago when he sold his shop.
During all of these years there was
probably no man in the city who de-
voted more hours to his business that
did Mr. Goerke. He was not a grasping
or penurious man, he gave liberally
when appealed to in behalf of local
affairs, but he was industrious by na-
ture and was careful and prudent in his
business affairs. The result was that
he accumulated a handsome property.
In the summer of 1871[?], in the city
of Chicago, he was married to Miss
Amanda Baum, who survives him.
They had no children and neither of
them have any relatives in this country
or anywhere else so far as either of
them knew.
The funeral was held from the
home next Monday afternoon, at 2
o'clock, Rev. Wilson Mallory officiat-
ing. Interment will follow in Forest
cemetery.
—Stevens Point Daily Journal; Saturday, March 4, 1911
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