“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1879. EMIL C. GAEBLER, musical instruments and musical wholesale, Watertown; was born in Eisenberg, Saxony, Sept. 30, 1828, and came to Wisconsin November, 1856, locating at Lake Mills; he received his literary education at the college at Eisenberg, and after that taught school for two years. On Aug. 15, 1849, he came to the United States to look after some land that was ceded to his father by a brother who was engaged in the Mexican war in the 15th Wis. V.I.; he then went to Danbury, Conn., and became teacher of music and languages in John W. Irwin’s Institute, six months after which he established himself in the teaching of music, tuning and repairing pianos, which he continued there for seven years; on account of his health, he went to Lake Mills, Wis., and entered the hardware business, in which he remained two years, when he went to Watertown, and at first manufactured melodeons; afterward started the music store which he now occupies; he is also engaged in teaching music and leading singing societies, and is now leader of the Concordia Musical Society; he has been engaged for the past eight years in the manufacture of pipe organs, and has made and placed organs in the following churches: Emanuel Church, Lebanon, Wis.; St. John’s Lutheran Church, at Watertown, Wis. (this organ has two banks of keys and twenty-eight stops); Lutheran Church, at Lomira, Wis.; Evangelical Church, at Ripon, Wis., and the Lutheran Church at Fall Creek, Wis. In 1876, he was elected School Commissioner, which position he now holds. He married, July 3, 1849, Bertha Von Beust; he has five children – Max H., Emeline A., Otto F., Sophie C. and Arthur. Submitted by: Linda Pingel (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)