Hartung, Capt Charles

1841 - 1916  (75 years)    Has 4 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Hartung, Charles
  Prefix	Capt
  Born	19 Feb 1841	, , , Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Abt 1858
  Military Service	Bef 1865
  Civil War, Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry
  1870 Census	1870	Havana, Mason, Illinois, USA
  Chas Hartung31 Anna Hartung25 Henry Hartung7 Emma Hartung4 Sophia Hartung2 John Snitzer30
  1880 Census	1880	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Charles Hartung39 Lena Hartung37 Earnest Hartung12 Hulda Hartung9 Clara Hartung7 Emma Hartung4
  Political Office	Between 1885 and 1887	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  Mayor of Green Bay
  Biography	1888
  Page 0254
  1905 State Census	1905	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Chas Hartung64 Helen Hartung62 Clara Hartung31 Emma Hartung29
  1910 Census	1910	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Charles Hartung69 Helen Hartung67 Clara H Hartung37 Emma Hartung34
  Biography	1913
  History of Brown County, Wisconsin Page 332
  CAPTAIN CHARLES HARTUNG. For over thirty-seven years Captain Charles Hartung has been identified with the hardware business in Green Bay and his name has been a synonym during that time for successful and comprehensive business methods, untiring energy and honesty and straightforward dealing. He is now living retired in the seventy-first year of his age and makes his home in the city, to the commercial expansion of which he has contributed his energy and business ability. Captain Hartung was born in Reuss, Germany, February 19, 1841, and is a son of Henry and Augusta (Muntzert) Hartung. The father was born in Germany and came with his family to America in 1858. He settled in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where he followed his trade of shoemaking until his death in 1906, when he was ninety-three years of age. His wife passed away in 1882, when she was sixty years old. To their union were born seven children, six of whom are living: Charles, of this review; Fred, who is a shoemaker in Appleton, Wisconsin : August, who lives in Chicago ; Robert, who makes his home in the same city ; Louisa, now Mrs. William Schuetze ; and Bertha, the wife of John Stoelzer, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Captain Hartung came to America in his youth and acquired his English education in Wisconsin, although he had attended public school in Germany. The trip across the Atlantic was made on a sailing vessel and sixty-five days were consumed in the journey. Captain Hartung had learned the shoemaker's trade and followed this occupation until i860. In the following year he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and saw three years of hard service under General Hancock. His duties were principally in Virginia and he was wounded in the hip at the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. He was sent to the hospital at Fort Monroe and later was transferred to Washington. He received a two months' furlough and when he was coming back to rejoin his regiment he met upon the boat Colonel Larobee, of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, with whom he engaged as second lieutenant in Company C and reentered the service, joining the Army of the Potomac, in which he served as captain until the close of the war. During his term of enlistment he was present at many of the important engagements, witnessing the battles of Atlanta, Peach Tree Creek and many others. He was mustered out with honorable discharge in 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee, and came to Green Bay, where he established himself in business. For some time he conducted a grocery store but abandoned that enterprise eventually in order to engage in the hardware business, with which line of occupation he has the record of thirty-seven and one-half years of continuous identification. He is one of the oldest merchants living in the city and although he has retired, he still keeps up an intelligent interest in local mercantile conditions. Captain Hartung married Miss Lena Bader, who was born in Germany in 1843. She is a daughter of Jacob Bader, who followed farming in the fatherland and who came to America at an early date, settling in Detroit, Michigan, whence he later removed to Green Bay. He was identified with agriculture all during his life and was a prominent and respected^ citizen. To Captain and Mrs. Hartung have been born two children, Clara and Emma, both of whom are living at home. Captain Hartung has served his community with ability and intelligence in various offices. He was deputy collector of the United States for three and one-half years and did constructive work as mayor of Green Bay. For seven years he was alderman from the second ward and did valuable and important work in this capacity as he did in all other aspects of his public service. Twenty years after the expiration of his last term as alderman he was again elected to the city council and served for eight years with conspicuous success. He affiliates with the Lutheran church and his fraternal relations include his connection with Green Bay Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F.. and with the Turner Society, of which he was at one time president. Captain Hartung has the distinction of being the oldest living merchant in Green Bay and an able and worthy veteran of the Civil war. During the course of his career, which has been marked by continuous labor in worthy causes and by well directed energy along lines of advancement, he has gained no truer success than that which is embodied in the title which he has earned of a thoroughly honest man.
  Reference Number	9079
  Died	17 Jul 1916	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I329378	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Hartung, Henry,   b. 10 Nov 1812,   d. 6 Jun 1905, Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 92 years)
  Mother	Muntzert, Augusta,   b. 6 Aug 1817, , , , Germany ,   d. 6 Nov 1886, Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F210087	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bader, Mary Magdelene Helen,   b. 23 Sep 1842,   d. 10 Feb 1913, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Married	27 Sep 1866
  Children	1. Hartung, Clara Marie,   b. 25 Mar 1873, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Hartung, Emma,   b. Abt 1876, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F210038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 19 Feb 1841 - , , , Germany 1870 Census - 1870 - Havana, Mason, Illinois, USA 1880 Census - 1880 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA Political Office - Mayor of Green Bay - Between 1885 and 1887 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA 1905 State Census - 1905 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA 1910 Census - 1910 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA Died - 17 Jul 1916 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S1009] History of Brown County Wisconsin Past and Present Vol 2, Martin, Deborah Beaumont, S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, (Chicago, Illinois: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1913. Title: History of Brown County, WI., 1913 Subject: bub_upload Description: v. 2 contains biographies only https://archive.org/details/historyofbrownco02mart Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company Author: Martin, Deborah Beaumont, S.J. Clarke Publishing Company). Page 304