History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, 
from U. S. Gov't Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches
Dessureau. Antigo, WI: Berner Brothers, 1922,  pp 268 - 269
Submitted by Cathy Kubly

William WEGNER, prominent Peck farmer and leader, was born 08 September 1876 in the town of Gibson, Manitowoc County [Wisconsin], the son of Mary and Michael WEGNER.  He [William] attended the public and parochial schools during his boyhood after which he journeyed to the scene of the great lumbering industry of northern Wisconsin and Michigan, working in the woods and mills.  When he abandoned this field of endeavor he had attained the position of head sawyer.  In 1897 he came to the Town of Peck, Langlade County, where he has since resided.  Mr. [William] WEGNER took up his present farm on the south half of the southwest quarter of Section 22 [Peck Township, Langlade County, Wisconsin] in the summer of 1905.  It comprises eighty acres of land situated near the west branch of the Ear Claire River on Route No. 1.

Mr. [William] WEGNER was married to Laura SCHWANTES [a maiden name?] of Lincoln County [Wisconsin], 19 July 1905.  To this union [of William and Laura WEGNER] were born two boys, Amos and Ogden, and one girl, Ruby.

Besides operating his farm, Mr. [William] WEGNER has found time to operate a store and a saloon on Section 22.  This business he conducted from 1903 until August 1909, when it burned down.  He is a leader in Peck Township affairs, and has served as Supervisor, Township Chairman and School Treasurer.  The last two offices he served in eight consecutive years, exact dates of which are found in Peck Township history.  Mr. [William] WEGNER is [p 269] a member of the E. F. U. [Equitable Fraternal Union].  The WEGNER family attends the Evangelical Lutheran church.