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AUGUST W. F. WILDE, teacher of St. Paul’s Parochial School of Wine Hill, is a native of Freistadt, Wis., to which place his parents had emigrated in 1839 or 1840 from the province of Pommen, Prussia. He was the second in order of birth of the family of ten children, eight of whom survive. Until fourteen years of age he attended the parochial school at Freistadt, which was under the supervision of three different teachers. When nineteen he entered the business college at Milwaukee, where he remained about five months, and in March of 1866 entered the Church College, at Addison, Du Page County, Ill., graduating from that institution in 1867.

In July of that year Mr. Wilde began his career as a teacher, in which profession he has continued ever since. Accepting a position at Warsaw, Ill., he remained in that city until 1879, when he was called to his present position. His long service in each place speaks well for his attainments and executive ability. As an instructor he is conscientious, painstaking and thorough, and succeeds not only in advancing the bright pupils rapidly in their studies, but also in creating in the minds of the thoughtless and the dull a desire for the acquisition of knowledge.

July 26, 1868, Mr. Wilde was united in marriage with Miss Therese A., daughter of Fred and Ernestine (Schenzel) Schlenter, natives of Schwessow, Prussia. The father died when Therese was but three months old, and the mother passed away five years later. Thus early orphaned, she was reared in the home of her mother’s sisters. To Mr. Wilde and his wife were born six children, five of whom survive. Their names are, Edward G. C., George H., Albert G., Emil H. W. and Christina. One child died in early infancy, before receiving baptism and a name.

Mr. Wilde and his entire family are members of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Wine Hill, in which they labor earnestly for the advancement of the church and the moral and intellectual welfare of the entire community. They are loved and respected by their neighbors for their kindly traits and pleasing, hospitable manner. During war times Mr. Wilde was a member of the Republican party, but at present affiliates with those of Democratic faith.