History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties

"History of Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas Counties Wisconsin"

Compiled by George O.Jones, Norman S. McVean and Others. Printed in 1924 by H.C.Cooper. Jr. & Co., Minneapoli-Winona MN. ill. 787 pages. The first two hundred pages are history of the three counties, the remainder of the book is biographies.

Biography

Ballstadt, Rudolph C. cashier of the German American State Bank of Merrill, Lincoln County, was born on a farm in Calhoun County, Iowa, Aug. 19, 1873. He was graduated from the high school at Manson, that state, took an academic course at Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and was subsequently graduated from Tobin College at Ft. Dodge, Iowa. In 1897 he took a position with the Calhoun County Bank of Manson, and after remaining there some five or six years, in 1903 became cashier of the First National Bank of Buffalo Center, Iowa. The latter position he resigned in 1904 to take the cashiership of the newly organized German American Bank of Merrill, Wis., which he has since filled to the satisfaction of the directors and the bank's patrons. In 1900 Mr. BALLSTADT was united in marriage with Matilda GUTZ of Poneroy, Iowa. He and his wife are the parents of two children: Ellallise, a student at St. Francis Xavier School, and Gretchen, who is attending the Lincoln County Training School.

Transcribed by Susan Swanson, from pages 597-598; History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties Wisconsin; Compiled by George O. Jones, Norman S. McVean and Others 1924, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co

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