WI BIO - Dane Co - REUTER [FITZ REUTER], C. E. L.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 624-625

C. E. L. FITZ REUTER, deceased, died at his home in this city [Madison, Dane 
County, WI], 14 January 1882. He was born in Mechlenburg, Germany, 28 March 
1848, and was but a child of three years when his parents emigrated to the 
United States, and located in Madison [Dane County], Wisconsin. The father 
of our subject subsequently became a soldier in the army, enlisting as a 
private, and died while in the service. He was then in middle life, and left 
his widow with a family of small children. She continued to reside in 
Madison [p 625] until her death, which occurred here in 1888, when she was 
about sixty years of age. She had been a good wife and mother, and had a 
large circle of friends among the German residents of this city, as had also 
her worthy husband.

Our subject was the eldest of four children, all of whom were born in this 
country, except himself. The three living are: (1) Jackson, a single man, 
is the first assistant bookkeeper for the Fuller-Johnston Manufacturing 
Company, of Madison; (2) La Fayette, with his second wife, lives in Ashland 
[Ashland County], Wisconsin, where he is engaged as a real estate dealer; and 
(3) Mrs. Otelia LARCH, living in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. 

Our subject grew up in Madison, was educated in the city schools, and when 
quite a young man began clerking in the clothing store of Benjamin KOHNER, 
now deceased. After close application to the business of his employer for a 
time, Mr. REUTER left this branch to engage in the lumber business with his 
father-in-law, Christian R. STEIN, under the firm title the C. R. Stein 
Lumber Company, and was thus engaged when he died. He was one of the 
prominent German American citizens of this city, both commercially and 
socially; was connected with the Masonic fraternity, and a leader in the 
Turner Society, being a teacher in that society, and was a well-known 
athlete, having carried off the laurels and prizes in the State contests for 
his skill in that direction. Our subject was a man of pleasant, genial 
disposition, interested in the progress of the city, and was a decided 
Republican in his political faith.

Mr. C. E. L. REUTER was married to Theckla STEIN, who was born in this city 
[Madison, Dane County, WI] and carefully reared and educated, in both public 
and private schools. After the death of her husband, Mrs. REUTER improved 
her opportunities and entered the Michigan State University, and took a 
thorough course in dentistry, graduating in that art, 28 June 1888, and on 01 
September 1888 opened her dental parlors in the Brown block, on the corner of 
Pinckney Street and Washington Avenue, and has since been in active practice. 
During the summer of 1892 she went to Chicago [Cook County, IL] and took a 
post graduate course in Dr. HASKELL's school of prosthetic dentistry. She is 
an enthusiast in her profession, and a skilled artist, at the same time being 
an accomplished lady, refined and intelligent. Her heart is in her work. 
She was reared in the Catholic Church, and still holds to that faith. As a 
mother she is very proud of her bright children, their names being Hattie A. 
and Bertha F., both of whom are being educated in Edgwood Villa, Madison, and 
the oldest shows a marked degree of ability in music. Dr. REUTER is the 
eldest of five children, all daughters. [For additional information on her 
family, see also the Dane County, WI, biography of her father, Christian R. 
STEIN.]

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