Carl August Born (1851 - 1929)

Born 21 Nov 1851 in Rhine, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States

Husband of Wilhelmine (Brauer) Born — married 29 Nov 1887 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

Died 11 Jan 1929 at age 77 in Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States

Biography

The popular and efficient manager of Born's Park and Sanitarium is Carl August Born, who was the founder of that institution which was opened in 1882. He was born in the town of Rhine, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, November 21 1851. The father, Carl A. Born, a native of the Rhine province, Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1848, his purpose in becoming a resident of this country being not only to take advantage of the better business opportunities which the new world offered, but also to escape the consequences of the German revolution.

Carl August Born was partly educated in Peoria, Illinois, a city to which his widowed mother had removed after the death of her husband. From Peoria, she returned to the town of Rhine where she made her home, and where Carl attended the district schools while later he pursued his education in the Herman schools. Afterward, he became a pupil in the Mission House, and still later was a student in the Sheboygan high school. On laying aside his textbooks he was engaged as a clerk for the Frank Geele Hardware Company, a position which he accepted at the age of nineteen years. He worked for that company for two years then removed to Nebraska where he resided for a time and subsequently secured employment as a traveling salesman for the Gray Brothers wholesale hardware dealers of Chicago. He then traveled for a gun and sporting goods house of Minnesota for some time, after which he returned to Sheboygan where he went into the implement business in which he remained until in 1880. In that year he went to Germany to settle an estate left him by his uncle and shortly after his return opened on the 1st of January 1882 the Born's Park of which he has since been manager. This was conducted as a park only until in 1905 when water containing medicinal properties was discovered in a well which had been drilled in the park, at which time he opened a sanitarium. The properties of the water were such as to attract a large number of patients which is increasing year by year. The business grew to such proportions that it was thought wise to incorporate the business which is now known as Born's Park Company. In connection with the establishment, fine buildings have been erected, a swimming pool installed, and the park grounds and surroundings have been beautified until the place has become noted.

Mr Born was married in 1887 to Miss Minnie Brauer a native of Mosel, Sheboygan county, her birth occurring in 1852. Mr Born has taken an active interest and been prominent in municipal affairs of the city of which he has been the mayor, chief of police, and alderman at various times during the past twenty five years. In his fraternal relations he is a member of the Eagles, the Turnverein, the Concordia Singing Society, and the Sheboygan Arbeiter Verein. In 1869, he organized the Evergreen City Cadets, being elected their captain. He resigned this position in 1876 after which he was again elected captain. Mr Born has also an interesting military chapter in his career. When the Wisconsin Militia was reorganized, the company which he had founded as the Evergreen City Cadets became Company C of the Second Wisconsin Regiment, and in 1893 he was made major in this regiment. A year later he became lieutenant colonel, and in 1895 he was promoted to the rank of colonel of the regiment and in that capacity served until after the Spanish American war when he retired. ^[1]

Birth, Death & Marriage Records

• Wisconsin Birth Index ^[2] Born 21 Nov 1851.
• Wisconsin Marriages ^[3] Charles A Born, son of Karl Born and Wilhelmine Koch, married Wilhelmine Brauer, daughter of Dietrich Brauer and Margaretha Harms on 29 Nov 1887 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
• Find a Grave Memorial ^[4]

Census Records

• 1860 US ^[5] Lived with mother Mena and brother William in Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
• 1900 US ^[6] Lived with wife Minne, sister-in-law Mary and her husband Gustaf in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
• 1910 US ^[7] Lived with wife Minnie in Sheboygan.
• 1920 US ^[8] Lived with wife Minnie and brother-in-law Gustave in Sheboygan.

Sources

1. ↑ History of Sheboygan County (S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912)
2. ↑ "Wisconsin Birth Index, 1820-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHHR-582 : accessed 14 May 2016), Carl A Born, 21 Nov 1851; from "Wisconsin Births, 1820-1907," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Saint Croix, Wisconsin, reel 0273, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division, Madison.
3. ↑ "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK85-SMHW : accessed 14 May 2016), Charles A Born and Wilhelmine Brauer, 29 Nov 1887; citing Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,275,570.
4. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40361114
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW9H-5Q5 : accessed 14 May 2016), Carl Born in entry for Mena Born, 1860.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM2X-12N : accessed 14 May 2016), Chas A Born, Sheboygan city Ward 7, south side, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States; citing sheet 6B, family 134, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,818.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP2Y-1T9 : accessed 14 May 2016), Charles A Born, Sheboygan Ward 7, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 118, sheet 16B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,752.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFVX-QQM : accessed 14 May 2016), Charles A Born, Sheboygan Ward 7, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States; citing sheet 11A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,822,017.