Ferdinand R. Gutheil (1877)

Birth: August 28, 1834

Death: April 12, 1912 (Age 77)

Burial: Schleswig Cemetery (Rockville, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin)

Ferdinand R. Gutheil at on time a prominent business man died in the City of Waukesha at his home on Monday, April 22, 1912 of heart disease. Gutheil was born in Thuringia, Germany, Aug. 28, 1833 and came to America in 1846. He located with other members of the family in the Town of Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Gutheil resided in the Town of Mequon until 1856 when he moved to Kiel, and in company with his brothers he engaged in the brewing business. While a resident of Kiel he married Marie Hayssen, daughter of the late Captain A.G. Hayssen. In 1866 he came to Chilton and established a brewery on the sight now occupied by the Calumet Brewing Company. He disposed of his interest in the Brewery in the early eighties to Nicholas Thomas and shortly after moved to Missouri where he remained a short time and then went further west to Gunnison, Colorado, where he continued in the brewing business. In the early nineties he returned to Wisconsin and engaged in the milling business with his son Arthur, in which he was interested up to the time of his death. While a resident of Chilton he took an active interest in public affairs and enjoyed the distinction of being the first Mayor of the town after its incorporation in 1877. He was also a member of the Chilton Masonic and Odd Fellow Lodges and was recognized as one of the leading men of affairs of the town. Gutheil had one son, Arthur Gutheil of Waukesha and four daughters, Mrs. Geo. Brickbauer of Plymouth, Mrs. Louis Laun of Elkhart Lake, Mrs. Richard Gove and Mrs. A.F. Bingenheimer of Milwaukee.