WI BIO - Dodge Co - RINGLE, Charles

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 676

Charles RINGLE, farmer, merchant, and Postmaster of Herman [Herman Township, 
Dodge County, Wisconsin], was born 30 October 1835 in Bavaria. He came to 
America with his parents in 1846, and settled in Washington County, Wisconsin 
[probably when Wisconsin was still contained within the Territory of 
Wisconsin, the State created 29 May 1848]. After eighteen months they 
settled on Section 25, town of Herman.

Charles RINGLE was educated in the Fatherland and in Washington County. He 
began mercantile business in 1865, was made Postmaster [of Herman] in 1866. 
He built a large brick store in 1876, where he has a complete stock of dry 
goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hats and caps, millinery, crockery, 
glassware, patent medicines, notions, etc. Mr. RINGLE is a Democrat, was 
Town Treasurer nine years, Justice of the Peace four years, Town Clerk two 
years, and is now Chairman [of Herman Township].

In 1858 he [Charles RINGLE] married [his first wife] Miss Johanna ERDMAN, who 
died 05 December 1875, leaving five sons [the children of Charles and Johanna 
(ERMAN) RINGLE]: William; Robert and Ernest, twins; Herman, and Julius.

In 1876 he [Charles RINGLE] married Mrs. Wilhelmina PLOCK, a sister of his 
deceased wife. [Thus before her marriage to Charles RINGLE, his second wife 
was Mrs. Wilhelmina (ERMAN) PLOCK.] Mr. RINGLE is a member of the New School 
Lutheran Church. He has 60 acres in Herman and 400 in Marathon County, 
Wisconsin, and Mrs. RINGLE [formerly Mrs. PLOCK] has 80 acres in Herman.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly