WI BIO - Dane Co - MENGEDOTH, Adolph
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 316-317

Adolph MENGEDOTH, a farmer of Dane County, WI, was born in Germany in 
February 1813, the sixth of ten children born to Herman Frederick and 
Frederica Henrietta (BECKER) MENGEDOTH. The father died at the age of 
seventy-nine years, and the mother at fifty years. Their eldest son, Henry, 
lived to be an old man in Hanover, Germany.

Adolph MENGEDOTH, the only one of the family now living, came to America and 
to Wisconsin in June 1848, having been eight weeks from Hanover to New York 
City. In the old country he worked at the carpenter's trade and farming, but 
after coming to Wisconsin was first employed at the mill dam on the lake, 
receiving $12 per month. He then worked in a brick yard for the following 
four years. On 06 August 1851 he [Adolph MENGEDOTH] married Meta Margaret 
FALKERT, who came to America in 1847, with her parents and one brother. The 
father [Mr. FALKERT] died in Milwaukee [Milwaukee County, WI], and the mother 
[Mrs. FALKERT] and her two children then came on to this place, where they 
purchased 40 acres of land, paying $3 per acre. The mother [Mrs. FALKERT] 
died in 1880, at the age of ninety years. The son, Edo FALKERT, is now a 
farmer of Nebraska.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. [Adolph] MENGEDOTH began life on 40 acres of 
land, which he purchased one year before. He erected a log house, 16x30 
feet, to which he brought his bride one year later. In 1887 they erected the 
comfortable [p 317] frame house, in which the wife [Meta Margaret (FALKERT) 
MENGEDOTH] died in the winter of 1888, aged sixty years. They [Adolph and 
Meta Margaret (FALKERT) MENGEDOTH] were the parents of six children: (1) 
Fred, who died 22 May 1878, aged twenty-three years; (2) Mary, who died 07 
Apr 1880, aged twenty-four years; (3) Wilhelm, [died] 30 May 1882; (4) 
August, [died] 10 Jan 1887, aged twenty-one years; (5) Henry, [died] 18 Sep 
1889, aged twenty years; and (6) Hattie, a young lady, resides with her 
father. Mr. and Mrs. MENGEDOTH were both members of the German Lutheran 
Church. Our subject [Adolph] has now practically retired from hard labor.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly