WI BIO - Dodge Co - SAUERHERING, Adolph, Rudolph & Edward Biography of Adolph SAUERHERING - (brother of Rudolph, uncle of Edward) History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 652 Adolph SAUERHERING, M.D., Mayville [Williamstown Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], was born 11 September 1821 in Prussia, and was educated in Konigsberg University. At the age of seventeen he entered a drug store and studied pharmacy; passed an examination in 1842, and remaining one year in the store as head clerk. He began the study of surgery in 1844, and commenced the study of pharmacy in the fall, and remained until 1846. He then served one year as a volunteer in the Prussian garrison at Spandau. He passed his second examination in 1847; and was honorably discharged from the garrison in 1847. He then resumed his study of pharmacy, and has since devoted his whole life to the study and practice of medicine. He studied under a private tutor and won his certificate in 1850. Resolved to seek a broader field for practice, he landed at New York in August 1850. He spent one month in Milwaukee [Milwaukee County] and settled in Mayville [Town 12 North, Range 16 East, Dodge County, Wisconsin] on 01 November 1850. He found four physicians in the place and was first supported by the Americans. He kept steadily at work, and as a result now has a ride [a practice] extending from Rubicon [Dodge County] to Oakfield [a Fond du Lac County township which borders on northern Dodge County] and from the Horicon marsh [in Dodge County] into Washington County. During the first five months he traveled on foot, frequently walking forty miles per day. In 1853 his practice required the use of two horses, and since 1854 he has constantly used three horses. Owing to new, rough roads, he rode horseback during a great part of the first five years. He was the unsuccessful owner of a saw mill for about six months in Le Roy [LeRoy Township, Dodge County]. Disabled by overwork, the Doctor practiced but little during 1868-1869. He has traveled an average of forty miles per day since 1853, 14,600 miles per year, and more than thirteen times round the world. He has averaged fifty miles per day during 1879, and often rides twenty hours per day for a fortnight [two weeks]. He has, by the use of six horses, ridden 120 miles per day for five successive days. The Doctor has the endurance of a white bear. The Doctor has eight living children. He has been a Mason since 1854, and belongs to Aurora Lodge, Milwaukee. In politics, he is a Democrat. He was Town Clerk in 1858. He owns a farm of 280 acres adjoining Mayville, where he has a pleasant home. [Mayville is located mostly on Section 23 of Williamstown Township on an 1878 map, but extends somewhat into Sections 14, 23 & 24.] Biography of Rudolph SAUERHERING (brother of Adolph, father of Edward) History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, pp 652-653 Rudolph SAUERHERING, druggist, Mayville [Williamstown Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], was born 15 December 1823 in Prussia, and was educated in Konigsberg University. He was in the Fifth Prussian Regiment, Dantzic, about two years, and was discharged in 1847; he was called out and fought through the Revolution of 1848. When the war was threatened between Austria and Prussia, in 1850, he again served several months. Rudolph SAUERHERING came to America and to [p 653] Mayville [Town 12 North, Range 16 East, Dodge County, Wisconsin] in the fall of 1851. He was with his brother, Adolf [Adolph], in a drug store, and learned the business of him. He [Rudolph SAUERHERING] was about one year in a store at Iron Ridge [Hubbard Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], and was in a Le Roy [LeRoy Township, Dodge County] saw mill with his brother [Adolph]. In June 1856 he [Rudolph] began his present business, and has steadily increased it; he has a large stock of drugs, paints and oils, books, stationery, wall paper, etc. On 15 December 1858 he [Rudolph SAEURHERING] married Miss Henrietta HARTWIG. They [Rudolph and Henrietta (HARTWIG) SAUERHERING] have five children: Huldah, Edward, Rudolph, Hartha [Martha?], and Richard. Mr. [Rudolph] SAUERHERING is a Republican, and has been Postmaster, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, School Treasurer, Justice of the Peace, and is now School Clerk. He was United States Gauger from 1870 until the office was abolished. He is a member in good standing of Vesper Lodge and Horicon Chapter Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons. Biography of Edward SAUERHERING (son of Rudolph, nephew of Adolph) Men of progress, Wisconsin: a Selected List of Biographical Sketches and Portraits of the Leaders in Business, Professional and Official Life ... Aikens & Proctor, eds. Milwaukee: Evening Wisconsin Company, 1897, pp 27-28 (Portrait p 28) Edward SAUERHERING, a member of the House of Representatives from the Second District, was born 24 June 1864 in Mayville, Dodge County, Wisconsin, which has always been his home with the exception of two years. His father is R. SAUERHERING, a druggist of Mayville, and his mother was Henrietta HARTWIG before marriage. Edward was educated in the public and high schools of his native village, and at the age of sixteen years entered his father's store, where he served a regular apprenticeship in the drug business. After this he entered the Chicago College of Pharmacy, where he applied himself with energy and diligence to the study of the principles of the pharmaceutical profession, and graduated with honors in the class of 1885. Immediately after graduation he entered the drug business in Chicago, remaining there three years, and then returned to Mayville, where he carries on a large and prosperous business in the same line. Mr. SAUERHERING has always been a Republican, and was the head of the Republican organization of Dodge County, being chosen Chairman of the committee in 1892. In that year he was nominated for the legislative Assembly, but was defeated. Owing to his thorough organization of the party in Dodge County, a Republican county judge was elected, the first Republican county official ever elected in its history. His personal popularity was demonstrated years ago by his having been twice elected Alderman of Mayville. In 1894 he received the Republican nomination for Congress in that district; and, although there had been a Democratic plurality of some 5,000 at the previous election, he accepted the nomination. It is characteristic of the man's indomitable energy and perseverance that he set to work just as if he expected to win the race. The district was thoroughly canvassed, and his manner so won upon the people, that when the votes were counted it was found that the large plurality against his party was entirely wiped out, and he was elected by 265 votes. In 1896 he was renominated, although he did not especially desire it; and was re-elected, receiving 24,011 votes against 18,505 for his Democratic and Prohibition opponents. This result was due in no small measure to his personal popularity and to his course in Congress. His work for the filled cheese bill, and his earnest speech in its support made him many friends among the dairymen, of whom there are many in his district. He was also a strong advocate of sound money, and this gave him many votes among his sturdy German-American constituents. Not brilliant, but possessing a large amount of good practical sense, quick to comprehend the scope of proposed measures, and always alert in the discharge of his official duties, he exerts a larger influence than many more effective speakers. In the 54th Congress he introduced a bill to create a state trade mark, and it is now pending. In 1889 Mr. [Edward] SAUERHERING was married to Miss Eugenia LANGENBACH of Mayville [Dodge County, Wisconsin]. Two children have been born to Edward and Eugenia (LANGENBACH) SAUERHERING: Charles, and Adolph. Mr. SAUERHERING is a member of Turnverein Eintracht of Mayville [a harmony society], and was its President from 1889 to 1896. He is also a member of the Masonic order, Vesper Lodge, Mayville. Submitted by Cathy Kubly