The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . sed steadily until he hadone of the largest businesses inthat line in the Northwest. OnNov. 6,1868, he was married toAnna Hahn, a native of Ger-many. In 1876, in connectionwith his
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . sed steadily until he hadone of the largest businesses inthat line in the Northwest. OnNov. 6,1868, he was married toAnna Hahn, a native of Ger-many. In 1876, in connectionwith his business as importerand manufacturer of cheese, heengaged extensively in manu-facturing Bologna sausage,which proved profitable, and added largely to his busi-ness. In 1888 he became interested in the Northwest-ern Woolen Mills, now Milwaukee Worsted Mills, ofwhich enterprise he is a large stockholder and anofficer. He has large mining and farming intereststhroughout the West, to which he devotes the samecareful attention and personal oversight given to interests. The result of this closesupervision has resulted in the development of hisenterprises until they have all become money-makingproperties. Mr. Wellauer conducts an extensive stockfarm three miles west of Milwaukee,finding in the sur-roundings rest from the cares of business and ampleopportunity to exercise his taste for rural 72 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA PACKARD, Silas Sadler, educator, was bornin Cummington, Mass., Apr. 38,1836, the fourth sonof Chester Packard, whose father, Abel Packard,was one of the earliest settlers of Cummington, havingremoved there in 1774, five years before the townwas founded. He is a direct descendant of SamuelPackard, who came from Hingham, Eng., and set-tled in what is now West Bridgewater, Mass., in1638. In 1833 Chester Packard went to Fredonia,Licking county, O., with his family, traveling theentire distance from Troy, N. Y., by water. Tlieboy, Silas, had the ord
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