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


         [page 182-183]
         
         RUDOLPH PUCHNER, general store, New Holstein. Born in
       Wurtemberg, Germany, Jan. 24, 1829. His grandfather was 
       a minister of the Duke, and his father a rich man. In 
       1848 he crossed the Atlantic, and arrived in New York, 
       from thence he proceeded to Sheboygan, Wis. with a young 
       man named Bruckman. He started for New Holstein, and ar-
       riving at Plymouth, met his future wife. He continued on
       through the woods and came to his destination, where he 
       built the first store, having to go to Chilton to get lum-
       ber; this was in 1849. He and Bruckman kept their shanty 
       store or trading post till 1851, when he went to Chicago, 
       but in 1854 returned and opened a store with Charles Heins. 
       In 1857 this partnership was dissolved, and he built a 
       store and tavern together, his tavern being a resort for 
       all the early settlers. He closed the hotel in 1859, and 
       continued the store in his own name till 1879, when he 
       took as a partner his son GEORGE. He carries a stock of
       $10,000, and is doing a business of $25,000 per annum. 
       He married Miss HEINS of Holstein. They have a family of 
       five boys - GEORGE, EDWARD M. D., RUDOLPH (now in Boston), 
       WILLIAM (a druggist in Chicago) and ALFRED (still at home). 
       Mr. PUCHNER was the first Postmaster of New Holstein. Be-
       side his fine town residence, he owns a farm of fifty acres.
       
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