Carl Fehlandt Dies at Home Here Saturday
Wisconsin's Oldest Newspaper Editor Pases Away Three Days After Sale of Zeitung
Published Paper 46 Years
Sheboygan Company Obtains Possession of Local German Weekly; to Combine it With Democrat
Carl Fehlandt, Wisconsin's oldest newspaper editor, has passed away.
Death came to him at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, just three days after he sold the circulation and good will of the German newspaper he had been editing and publishing for more than forty-six years under the Fehlandt name.
Today, the body was being laid to rest on the publication day of the last issue of the Port Washington Zeitung.
Mr. Fehlandt's life has been closely connected with Port Washington since he purchased the Zeitung on July 4, 1882, and he continued to publish the paper to the last, despite advancing age and illness.
He was born seventy-eight years ago in Goehlen, Germany, on April 5, 1850, and came to America when he was fourteen years old. He settled with his parents, brothers and sisters at Marxville, Dane county.
He was married to Bertha Voss on May 1, 1876. They lived first at La Crosse and then at Madison until his purchase of the Zeitung.
Two children were born to them, Clellia and Ella, the latter surviving with her mother and three grandchildren, Carl, Henrietta, and Natalie Timme. Three brothers, Henry Fehlandt, of Milwaukee, August Fehlandt, of Ripon, and William Fehlandt, of Madison, and a sister, Mrs. Robert Voss, of Black Earth, also survive.
Funeral services were held at the home above the printshop at 612 Grand avenue at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the Rev. T. A. Boerner officiating. Burial was in the Union cemetery.
The Zeitung was sold last Wednesday by Mr. Fehlandt to the Sheboygan Publishing company, represented by Julius Schnell.
The last issue of the Zeitung was to have been published today under the Fehlandt name. Next week, the Port Washington Zeitung will be combined with the Sheboygan Demokrat, a weekly paper published by the Sheboygan company. The same firm also publihes a German daily paper, the America. The new Sheboygan-Ozaukee county paper will probably change to a bi-weekly German paper, featuring Ozaukee county news as well as Sheboygan county.
The Zeitung was established seventy-three years ago. Mr. Fehlandt bought the paper and plant from Adolph Heldkamp.
The sale of the Zeitung does not effect the ownership of the printing plant which remains in the Fehlandt family.
--The Port Washington Herald, Port Washington, Wisconsin, Wednesday, September 5, 1928, Volume 33, Number 23.
