From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, 
publ. 1894 - Page 38
 
C. A. SCHELLPFEFFER.  He whose name heads this sketch is a representative farmer of 
the prosperous County of Dodge, Wis.  He was born in the kingdom of Prussia, July 8, 
1826, and in his native land received a good education, being self-educated in English.  
After arriving at mature years he entered the German army, in which he served for three 
and a half years, but in 1852 decided to seek his fortune in America, and embarked at 
Hamburg for the City of New York, where he arrived the 1st of April of that year.  He 
came immediately to Dodge County to join some old acquaintances, and for four years 
thereafter worked by the month for $8 per month.  He then bought a forty-acre tract of 
timber land, on which a log house had been erected and two acres cleared, and began the 
arduous work of clearing his land, and after this task had been accomplished, he tilled it 
for several years, then bought thirty-one acres adjoining, and at various times made other 
purchases as his means permitted, until he now has a magnificent farm of 240 acres, 
exceptionally well improved, his residence being a substantial brick, and his barns and 
outbuildings commodious and well made.  He came to this country empty handed and his 
present valuable property is the result of persistent toil on his part, good management and 
a native Teutonic thrift.  In local politics he is independent, but in national politics he has 
always voted the Democratic ticket.  He has held the office of assessor, and in 1859 
served one term as chairman of the board of supervisors, was a member of that body 
three terms, and has been a delegate to various county and congressional conventions.  
He is the present president of the Dodge County Mutual Insurance Company, and upon 
the organization of the State Bank at Mayville, he took stock in that institution and was 
elected one of its directors .  He was married in Dodge County, January 19, 1857, to Miss 
Teressa WOLTER, who was born and reared in Germany, and to their union two sons 
and a daughter have been given: Henry W., to whom his father has given a part of the old 
homestead, and who is married, and has three sons and two daughters; Bertha, wife of 
Robert LANGENBACH, a successful business man of Mayville, and August S., who is at 
home helping carry on the farm.  Mr. SCHELLPFEFFER and family are members of the 
Lutheran Church of Mayville, and as they have lived upright and useful lives they are in 
every way deserving the respect in which they are held.

Submitted by:  Carol Holmbeck