SCHLUMPF, Joseph

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 164

Joseph SCHLUMPF, Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 17 September 1834 
in France [not verified by submitter]. He emigrated to America in 1853, and 
landed in New Orleans, where he remained four years. He made several changes 
afterward, and in 1860 settled in this county [Buffalo], and the first four 
years tilled the soil. In 1865 he engaged in saloon keeping, which he has 
continued since. His wife and daughters have a millinery establishment. His 
wife was [past tense] Miss Geneveve WIEGELE [Genovefa WIEGLER], a native of 
Germany [probably married 26 May 1861 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, 
Missouri]. They have seven children: Louisa, Josephene, August, Joseph, 
Robert, Emma, and Eve. Mr. SCHLUMPF has been a member of the village [of 
Alma] board two terms, Assessor one term, and is Justice of the Peace at the 
present [1881] time. [One wonders how much traveling Joseph SCHLUMPF had to 
do within the village boundaries to perform his official duties. A map of 
Alma in the 1878 Atlas of Wisconsin shows this village on the east bank of 
the Mississippi River to be two blocks or less in width for its entire 
length.]

[The SCHLUMPF family was enumerated in the 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin: Joseph SCHLUMPF, forty-five, saloon keeper, born in 
Germany, from his census age about 1835 (which does not dispute the birthdate 
given in the biography), to parents also born in Germany; his wife, Gwenever, 
forty-four, born about 1836 in Germany to parents also born there; and his 
seven children, all born in Wisconsin to parents born in Germany, all single, 
and the last four attending school, approximate years of birth calculated 
from census ages: (1) Louisa, eighteen, at home, born about 1862; (2) 
Josephene, sixteen, at home, born about 1864; (3) August, fourteen, born 
approximately 1866; (4) Joseph, eleven, born about 1869; (5) Robert, age 
eight, born about 1872; (6) Emma, six, born about 1874; and (7) Eva (Eve of 
the biography), four, born about 1876. Also in the household are two 
persons, both single and unrelated to Joseph: Catherine, twenty, servant, 
born in Wisconsin to parents born in Switzerland; and John BACKLER, 
twenty-three, bartender, born in Ohio to parents born in Switzerland. 
Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) 
to support and clarify information given in the biography and to raise 
questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly