WI BIO - Dane Co - PAPE, Ferdinand
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 613-614

Ferdinand PAPE, a farmer on his widowed mother's place of eighty acres in 
Springfield Township, Dane County [WI], where he was born, is a son of Frank 
and Susan (SHEFHOUSEN) PAPE, natives of Germany. The father came to America, 
also to Wisconsin, in 1849, when a single man. Frank PAPE was twice married, 
and by his first wife had two sons and three daughters. He was afterward 
married to the mother of our subject, and they also had five children. The 
eldest son, Peter, is now a priest in the Catholic Church of Kenosha [Kenosha 
County, WI], and a sister now makes her home with him. The remainder are 
still at home. Frank PAPE died on the farm his widow still owns, in May 
1884, aged fifty years. He was an honest and hard-working man. He came to 
this country with little or no means, and being of a kind and confiding 
nature, was much imposed upon, hence he left his property somewhat 
encumbered. But by hard work and economy his widow has paid much of the debt 
left upon the place, and has given her children a [p 614] good education. 
Ferdinand PAPE is a young man of promise, and like his parents, is 
industrious and of good moral habits.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly