“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


REV. FREDERICK GOTTSCHALK came to America in 1856; spent 
about four months in Buffalo, N.Y., then came to Milwaukee and has 
made that his home most of the time since.  He was born in Prussia July 
18, 1843; received his elementary education in Europe; he was for two 
years a student at the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio; Sept. 29, 1867, 
he was ordained Deacon in the Methodist Church; Sept. 19, 1869, he 
was ordained Elder; his first charge was at Fond du Lac, where he 
remained one year and a half; afterward at Beaver Dam and Herman for 
a year; two years at Columbus; three years as Oshkosh; two years at 
Madison, having commenced work for two years and a half prior to his 
ordination.  Mr. Gottschalk graduated from the Garrett Biblical Institute 
at Evanston, Ill., Jan. 15, 1876; after several years of labor in the holy 
ministry, he decided that he would enter that institution and derive the 
benefits and advantages of a thorough English theological education, 
thereby being more fully fitted for the glorious work to which he had 
dedicated his life.  In September, 1876, he came to Watertown.  Aug. 19, 
1866, he married Louisa Amalia Adam, daughter of George Adam, a 
native of Alsace, France, who came to Clyman, Dodge Co., in 1846.  
Mrs. Gottschalk was born in Erie Co., Penn., Jan. 26, 1845; they have 
four children living – Franklin Benjamin, born in Clyman, Dodge Co., 
Wis., Aug. 19, 1867; Albert Wesley, in Oshkosh, June 30, 1870; Emma 
Louisa, in Madison, Feb. 17, 1872; Benjamin Theophilus, Sept. 15, 
1877; lost two children – Lydia Martha, who died at the age of 3 months, 
and Arthur Frederick, aged 11 months.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)