WI BIO - Dodge Co - SCHELLPFEFFER, Frederick

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 653

Frederick SCHELLPFEFFER, farmer, Section 27, Mayville [on a map of Dodge 
County in the 1878 Atlas of Wisconsin, Mayville is located in Williamstown 
Township], P. O. Mayville, was born 26 August 1828 in Prussia, where he spent 
his early life and was educated, and was in the Prussian Army for three 
years. He came to America and to Dodge County [Wisconsin] in 1853, worked as 
a farm hand, and used to get six dollars per month in harvest. He settled on 
forty acres of timbered land in 1856, worked hard chopping out a farm of 110 
acres, which has good improvements.

In 1855 he [Frederick SCHELLPFEFFER] married Miss Anna KEILE. They 
[Frederick and Anna (KEILE) SCHELLPFEFFER] have eight children: Frederick, 
Henry, Amelia, Charles, Emma, August, Louisa, and Clara. Mr. SCHELLPFEFFER 
is a Democrat, has been Supervisor twice, and is a member of the Lutheran 
Church of Mayville.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly