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


         [page 183]
         
         CLAUS THEISSEN, traveling agent, New Holstein. Born in
       Schleswig-Holstein, April 28, 1837. He came to America in 
       1852 with his parents, coming at once to Calumet County, 
       and locating in town of Holstein, on a farm of 160 acres, 
       where his parents still live. In 1859 he married, and went 
       on to a farm of his own in the town of Eaton, where, by an 
       accident, he lost his right foot. He then changed his oc-
       cupation to that of keeping hotel in Kiel, until 1869, when 
       he took a traveling agency for a grocery house, but since, 
       travels for the Milwaukee Distillery. While in Winona, Minn., 
       on the 4th of May, 1881, he was thrown down a flight of ten 
       stairs, suffering a complicated fracture of the knee. He 
       belongs to the I. O. O. F., and also the Sons of Hermann.
       His wife was Miss TAMS, of Holstein. They have had nine 
       children, only three now living. He was one of a family 
       of seventeen, of which there are nine living.

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