Franz Xavier Schottsmueller

Source: History of Northern Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development, and Resources, an Extensive Sketch of Its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers, Views of County Seats, Etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881. p. 73

FRANZ XAVIER SCHOTTSMUELLER, brewery, Ashland, was born in Baden, Germany, 1835, emigrated to America in 1851, going from New York to Pennsylvania, and from there to Cincinnati, where he went into the cigar business. In 1852 he went to New Orleans and from there to Missouri and Illinois, stopping a while in Peoria. He came to Ashland in 1872, putting up a brewery and a saloon here. In 1869 he married Miss Annie J. Dohm, of Wisconsin. They have a son, Martin Otto.