A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY 783
ceived his early education in the public schools of Fremont, and also attended business college at Oshkosh. After that he worked in the lumber woods and driving logs on the river until 1893, when he took up farming on the place where he now resides and on a part of his father's land acquired in 1871. George Steiger is responsible for the many fine improvements, including a group of buildings well arranged for service as a dairy farm. Air. Steiger has 180 acres in his home place and 80 acres in another tract in Fremont Township. His business is general farming but he also keeps a herd of Holstein cattle and is one of the leading milk producers of Fremont Township.
On January 1, 1895, he married Mrs. Iva A. (Carley) Spoehr. Mrs. Steiger was born in Waushara County, Wisconsin, in Aurora Township, a daughter of S. A. Carley, who for forty-nine years occupied his farm in Aurora Township, but is now retired and living with his children. Mr. Carley married Eliza AIcLymond, who was of Scotch and English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Steiger have two children: Leland J. and Alpheus G. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. For eight years Mr. Steiger served as township assessor.
WhiLiam Polzin has played a very active part in the affairs of AVyoming Township for many years. He has been a merchant at Big Falls, has done his share of clearing of lands, removing of stumps and farming, and has also filled many public responsibilities in the form of local offices.
He was born in Prussia, Germany, October 10, 1864, but has lived in this country since he was a small child. His parents, Ferdinand and Johannah Polzin, were also natives of Germany, and they lived on a farm in the old country. In 1872, emigrating to America, they located on the Island of Menasha near Neenah in Wisconsin, and the father was employed in various forms of labor there for four or five years. Re¬ moving to Dupont Township of AVaupaca County, he bought eighty acres, which had a log house and barn on it and a few acres cleared. The first crops were planted among the stumps. The family had only one work horse at first and later they did their plowing with an ox team. The log house continued to be their home for several years until it was re¬ placed with a more substantial frame building. The father cleared up all the land with the help of his sons, and made improvements which constituted a valuable and productive farm. About 1902 Ferdinand Polzin retired, moved to Big Falls, lived in that village until the death, of his wife in 1913 at the age of seventy-four, and now makes his home with his son Charles. The parents were active members of the Evangelical Church. Their six children were: William; Charles P.; Ferdinand, a blacksmith at New London; Edward; Bertha, wife of Alf Jilson of Monico, Wisconsin; and Fred.
William Polzin had a few months' schooling in Germany, and was eight years of age when he came to this country. His schooling in Wis¬ consin was obtained at Menasha. From the age of eleven years he was working at home and for others, and he had experience for several seasons