Gottlieb Wehrle

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Gottlieb Wehrle

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1822|3|14}}

| birth_place = Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1886|7|31|1822|3|14}}

| death_place = Fennimore, Wisconsin, U.S.

| resting_place = Fennimore, Wisconsin

| nationality = American

| occupation = Farmer

| party = Reform Party

| office = Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

| constituency = Third Grant County district

| term_start = 1873

| term_end = 1874

| predecessor = John Monteith

| successor = Benjamin M. Coates

| known_for = Namesake of Werley, Wisconsin

}}

Gottlieb Wehrle (March 14, 1822 – July 31, 1886) was an American farmer from Fennimore, Wisconsin who spent a single term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the third Grant County district.

Background

Wehrle was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, on March 14, 1822. He received a common school education and became a farmer. He came to the United States on March 10, 1854, in steerage, having embarked in Le Havre,[http://www.germanimmigrants1850s.com/index.php?id=344283 "Gottlieb Wehrle from Baden to USA in 1854: Passenger Record for Gottlieb Wehrle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032144/http://www.germanimmigrants1850s.com/index.php?id=344283 |date=March 4, 2016 }} germanimmigrants1850s.com eventually moved to Wisconsin in 1855 and settled on a farm in Fennimore. Wehlre died in 1886 and was buried in Fennimore.{{cite news|title=Gottlieb Wehrle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14945832/gottlieb_wehrle_18221886/|newspaper=The Eau Claire News|date=August 14, 1886|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=November 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107165516/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14945832/gottlieb_wehrle_18221886/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=live}} {{Open access}}

Public office

He was twice elected chairman of the Fennimore town board, before being elected to the Assembly in 1873 on the Reform ticket (in the same election which brought William Robert Taylor to power), with 584 votes to 530 for Republican former Assemblyman Jonathan Baker Moore. (The incumbent, Republican John Monteith, was not a candidate for re-election.) He was assigned to the standing committee on education.{{Cite web |url=http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1874 |title=Turner, A. J., ed. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin: Comprising the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin, Jefferson's Manual, Forms and Laws for the Regulation of Business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Thirteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1874; pp. 460, 476, 479 |access-date=July 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410070944/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?id=WI.WIBlueBk1874 |archive-date=April 10, 2020 |url-status=live }}

In 1874 he sought re-election as a Democrat, but lost by 645 votes to 838 for former Republican Assemblyman Benjamin M. Coates.{{Cite web |url=http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1875 |title=Bashford, R. M., ed. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin: Comprising the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin, Jefferson's Manual, Forms and Laws for the Regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Fourteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1875; p. 324 |access-date=July 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503162418/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?id=WI.WIBlueBk1875 |archive-date=May 3, 2020 |url-status=live }}

Heritage

The unincorporated community of Werley, Wisconsin was named after him.[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=3946&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places "Term: Werley [origin of place name]" Dictionary of Wisconsin History]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023050617/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=3946&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places |date=October 23, 2012 }}

References

Category:Farmers from Wisconsin

Category:People from the Grand Duchy of Baden

Category:People from Fennimore, Wisconsin

Category:Wisconsin Reformers (19th century)

Category:1822 births

Category:1886 deaths

Category:Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Category:Immigrants to the United States

Category:19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature