SCHERER, Albert

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 167

Albert SCHERER, hotel, Fountain City [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 16 
November 1831 in Baden, Germany. In 1854 he came to America and landed in 
New York City, where he remained one year, employed as a baker. In 1857 he 
came to Fountain City. In 1863 he opened an hotel and has been in that 
business for the past eighteen years [since about 1863, calculated from the 
publishing date of biography]. In 1857 Albert SCHERER married [Miss?] 
Charlotte WAGNER, also born in Germany. [Spelling of Charlotte's surname and 
her place of birth not verified by submitter.] They have six children: 
Charlotte, Sophia, Ferdinand, Charles, Lena, and Amelia.

[The family was enumerated in the 1880 census of Fountain City, Buffalo 
County: Albert SCHERER, forty-eight, hotel keeper, born in Baden (from his 
census age about 1832, which does not dispute the date of birth given in the 
biography) to parents also born in Baden; his wife, Charlotte, fifty, born 
about 1830 in Baden to parents also born there; and his six children, all 
born in Wisconsin to parents born in Baden, the first three at home and the 
last three attending school: (1) Charlotte, eighteen, single, born about 
1862; (2) Sophia, sixteen, born about 1864; (3) Ferdinand, fourteen, born 
about 1866; (4) Charles, thirteen, born about 1867; (5) Helena, ten, born 
about 1870; and (6) Emilie, the youngest daughter, nine, born about 1871. 
Also in the household and unrelated to Albert are two boarders, both house 
painters: Gustav JOHNSON, twenty-six, single, born in Sweden to parents also 
born there; and Nathan BOYD, twenty-five, single, born in Wisconsin to a 
father born in Maryland and mother born in Wisconsin. Bracketed material 
added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) to support and 
clarify information in the biography.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly