Uecke, John

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Other Info or Events: Aft 1873
• 1880 Census: 1880, Osborn, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1900 Census: 1900, Osborn, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0806

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Children;
Minna Elisa (Elsie?) Caroline Uecke b March 13, 1873 T Osborne, Wi Bapt May 4,1873 D/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulze
Gustav Johann Heinrich Uecke b. Jan 21, 1876 T Osborne, Wi., Bapt March 10, 1876 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulze Uecke
Ernst Johannes Heinrich Uecke b April 12, 1877 T Osborn, Wi Bapt April 18, 1877 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulze Uecke
Adella Auguste Hulda Uecke b. Jan 21, 1882 T Osborne, Wi., Bapt. April 30, 1882 Freedom Moravian Church, D/O: Friedrich & Hulda Therese Schultz Uecke

1880 Census:
John Wecke 34
Hulda Wecke 36
Emma Wecke 12
Charles Wecke 10
William Wecke 9
Rosa Wecke 11
Albert Wecke 7
Anna Wecke 2
Minnie Wecke 1M

1900 Census:
John F Uecke 54
Holda Uecke 56
John Uecke 16
Eddie Uecke 14
Freddie Uecke 14

Biography:
HON. JOHN UECKE, one of the representative citizens of Seymour, Wisconsin, who has developed a large business in the line of nursery gardening, has been prominently identified with public affairs during the past twenty years and has represented his district in the State Assembly. Mr. Uecke was born December 15, 1845, in Pomerania, Germany, a son of Gottlieb and Carolina (Runge) Uecke, natives of the Fatherland who started for the United States in 1852 with four children, namely: John, Emil, Albert and Gustave, of whom Emil, aged five years died in the United States, and Albert and Gustave, aged two years and five weeks respectively, died while the family was crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel. Gottlieb Uecke was a schoolteacher in Germany, and after arriving in this country took up that profession, in the meantime studying for the ministry. After due preparation he was admitted thereto and was ordained a preacher in the Moravian Church, filling pulpits at Lake Mills, Green Bay and Freedom, at which latter place he organized and built a church. He filled the last-named charge until his retirement from the ministry on account of advanced years, and his last days were spent near the home of his son, John, where he died in 1895, aged eighty years. His widow, who survives him, has attained the age of eighty-four. Six children were born to Rev. and Mrs. Uecke in the United States, namely: Emma, who married Rev. Madson; Augusta, who married a Mr. Scofield; Emily, who married a Mr. Dittner; Robert, of Harvard, Illinois; George, residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Charles, who is deceased.
John Uecke was but seven years of age when the family came to the United States, and he received his education from his father and in the district schools. At the age of eighteen years he became a gardener and nurseryman and engaged in raising evergreen seedlings for Samuel Edwards of Lamoille, Bureau county, Illinois. This occupation he followed in Green Bay until 1871, in which year he came to his present place, situated just outside the corporation limits of Seymour, on the line between Seymour and Osborn townships, where he purchased ten acres of wild land and began gardening. He now has a well-cultivated tract, upon which stands a modern residence, flanked with well-kept lawns and surrounded by shade and ornamental trees. He has been successful in his various business ventures, is a director in the First National Bank of Seymour, and is looked upon as one of the substantial men of this section. In political matters, Mr. Uecke is a Republican, and he has filled various offices of public honor and trust. He was a member of the county board of supervisors for seven years, served as one of the first trustees of the Outagamie county asylum from 1890 to 1894, and during 1895-6 was sent by his fellow citizens to the State Assembly.
Mr. Uecke was married (first) to Hulda Schultz, who was born in Germany, and she died in 1901, aged fifty-eight years having been the mother of the following children: Charles, who resides at New London, Wisconsin; Rose, who married Fred Wagner of Mankato, Minnesota; William, residing at home; Albert, a real estate dealer of Cumberland, Wisconsin; Anna, who married John P. Coleman; Lizzie, who married Dr. Fuller; John, a resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Fred and Eddie, twins, of Mankato, Minnesota; and Emma, who died in 1910, aged forty-two years, the wife of John Johnson, an engineer on the St. Paul railroad. Mr. Uecke's second marriage was to Nellie Eustis, who was born October 12, 1859, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, daughter of Samuel and Emily (Clark) Eustis, the former a native of Newton, Massachusetts, and the latter of New Hampshire. They were married in Boston, from whence they removed to the State of Maine and during the '40s came West to Minnesota, locating on 285 acres on the present site of the manufacturing center of Minneapolis, at which time there were but three houses in that city and nine in St. Paul. Mr. Eustis died in 1883, aged sixty-eight years, and his widow passed away in 1909, having reached the age of eighty-nine years and four months.

John married Schultz, Hulda Aft 1865. Hulda was born Abt 1843; died Abt 1901. [Group Sheet]

John married Eustis, Nellie Aft 1901. Nellie was born 12 Oct 1859; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 25 Dec 1867

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Baptism:
Emma Maria Christine Uecke b. Nov 23, 1867 Green Bay, Wi, Bapt; Dec 25, 1867 Freedom Moravian Church D/O: Johann

Emma married Johnson, John Aft 1886. John died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Birth - Church Record: 25 May 1869

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Carl August Friedrich Uecke b. May 25, 1869 Green Bay, Wi, bapt; none recorded, s/o Johannes

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 15 Aug 1870

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Rosalie Auguste Caroline Uecke b. July 17, 1870 Green Bay, Wi Bapt Aug 15, 1870 Freedom Moravian Church d/o Johannes Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: Aft 1 Oct 1871

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Baptism:
Wilhelm Franz Albert Uecke b. Oct 1,1871 Green Bay, Wi. Bapt. Possibly at Green Bay Moravian Church, s/o; Johannes & Hulda Schulz Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 9 Aug 1874

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Albert Johannes Friedrich Uecke b. June 24,1874 T of Osborne, Wi Bapt. Aug 9, 1874 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulze Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 28 Aug 1878

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Anna Dorothea Wilhelmine Uecke b. July 18, 1878 T Osborne, WI. Bapt August 28, 1878 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulze Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 1 Aug 1880

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Elizabeth Marie Caroline Uecke b. May 14, 1880 T Osborne, Wi. Bapt Aug 1, 1880 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Johannes & Hulda Schulz Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679
• Baptism: 29 Jul 1883

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Johannes Friedrich George Uecke b. June 6, 1883 T Osborn, Wi. Bapt. July 29, 1883 Freedom Moravian Church, S/O: Friedrich & Hula Schultze Uecke

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• Reference Number: 2679

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• Reference Number: 2679