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


         [page 185]
         
         Hilbert Junction
         
         THEODORE ORPHAL, hotel, Hilbert. Born in Saxony, Germany,
       July 18, 1849. Coming to America in 1850, with the family, 
       he stopped in Niagara Co., N.Y., on a farm, till 1857, when 
       they all moved to Sheboygan Co., Wis. In 1864, he enlisted 
       in the 39th Wis. V. I., in the hundred-day service; served 
       his time, and enlisted again in 1865, in the 14th Wis. V. I., 
       Co. H, and was mustered out in October, 1865, when he came 
       to Sheboygan, and went into a hotel. He came to Hilbert in
       1872. He hauled the lumber for the first house there, and 
       in 1875 built the hotel called the Central House, which he 
       still owns. In 1870, he married Miss CHARLOTTE SCHLINZ, of 
       Manitowoc County. Mr. ORPHAL has been Constable in Hilbert. 
       His family are members of the Lutheran Church.

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