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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 167]
         
         WILLIAM HECK, engineer of the steamer "Robert Harris,"
       was born in Germany, Aug. 30, 1843, and came to the United 
       States with his parents, landing at New Orleans where they 
       remained but a short time. Then they moved to Ste. Gene-
       vieve Co., Mo. In 1855, he came up the Mississippi River 
       to Reed's Landing, Minn., with his father, where they re-
       mained for two years working in a saw-mill, and in 1857 
       moved to Buffalo County and engaged in farming. In the 
       Fall of 1858 the subject of this sketch went back to 
       Missouri and worked at teaming in the Iron Mountains 
       until 1861, at which time he returned to Wisconsin and 
       commenced farming again with his father in Buffalo County. 
       He was married in 1867 to BARBARA FUCHES, who was born in 
       Germany, and they then moved into Fountain City where he 
       engaged in a saw-mill for Frank MAULTAUCH for seven years, 
       and then started engineering on the Mississippi, and, in 
       1875, formed a partnership with PETER J. SCHNEIDER, to run
       a daily boat between Winona and Fountain City, and is now 
       engineer and partner of the same, and is a member of the 
       I. O. O. F., Steuben Lodge, No. 280.

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