Bio: Lemke, August H. D. D. S. (1868 - 19??)

Contact: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lemke, Scherbert, Snow, Bentzien, Dumke, Hennig

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Lemke, August H. D. D. S. (2 September 1868 - 19??)

August H. Lemke D. D. S., who has well equipped offices at No. 312 S. First Avenue, Wausau, enjoys a large and substantial practice which he has built up since the fall of 1907 and is the only practicing dental surgeon engaged on the west side. He was born in Germany, September 2, 1868, and is a son of John A. and Marie (Scherbert) Lemke. John A. Lemke brought his family to America in 1871, coming directly to Wisconsin. He was a cigar-maker by trade but immediately invested in land in the town of Wausau, Marathon County, and acquired three farms, aggregating no acres, all valuable land. He continued to maintain his home in the city of Wausau but daily visited his farm and for a number of years overlooked their development. He and wife now live in comfortable retirement at Wausau where they are held in exceeding esteem. They have eleven children: Charles, who is a farmer, has 160 acres in the town of Plover: August H.; Frederick; Minnie, who is the wife of Frank Snow and they reside in the state of Washington; William, who lives in South Dakota; Edward; Henry, who is a farmer; Marie, who is the wife of Frank Bentzien, of Santa Clara, Cal.; Robert; Henrietta, who is the wife of John Dumke; and Paul.

August H. Lemke was reared at Wausau and attended the public schools and also a business college and was graduated with the degree of B. S. from the university at Valparaiso, Ind. For fourteen years he afterward followed teaching, both in the rural and the city schools and prior to turning his attention seriously to the study of dentistry, visited Europe, in 1901, and once more saw the old family home place in Germany. Prior to this, however, he had spent about one and one-half years in travel in the United States and during this period covered no less than 11,000 miles. In 1907 he was graduated from the Chicago Dental College and in September of the same year opened his office at Wausau.

Dr. Lemke was married in 1902 to Miss Emma Hennig, of Dodge County, Wis., and they have three children: Irma, Leslie and Marie. He is secretary and treasurer of the Marathon County Dental Society and belongs to the Wausau Commercial Club.