Biographical Sketch of

Thaddeus Leute

Transcribed by Jaimee Hedlund

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Pages 400 and 403
 
The foreign-born residents of Wisconsin have contributed a large proportion to the development of that state, and 
the German empire has many able representatives among the number, foremost of whom may well be mentioned the gentleman 
whose name is presented to the readers.  He has made a success of the pursuit of agriculture in his adopted land, and 
his estate is one of the best in Dell Prairie Township, Adams County.  He labored through weary years during his early 
settlement in this region, and his estate of the present day bears little trace of its primitive condition.  He now has 
commodious and substantial buildings, excellent land cleared for cultivation and various other improvements which would 
present themselves to the visitor in a way that would at once call to mind the labor necessary to bring it to its present 
high state of cultivation and improvment.
 
Mr. Leute was born in Baden, Germany, October 28, 1832, and was the son of Thaddeus and Frances (Matheus) Leute, of Baden, 
Germany.  His father passed his career in his native land.  Our subject until fourteen years of age attended school and 
was afterward engaged at farm work until twenty-two years of age, when he came to America and located in Dell Prairie 
Township, Adams County.  He purchased the farm where he now resides, and has been a continuous resident of that township 
since.  He owns one hundred and fifty acres of good land, and the buildings on the estate have all been erected by him.  
It took careful management and earnest labor to accomplish the purpose for which he came to the new home, but he never 
once lacked the courage to proceed with his task, and is today one of the substantial men of his community.
 
Mr. Leute was married October 28, 1867 to Kunigunda Naber, daughter of Lawrence and Kunigunda Naber of Bayern, Germany.  
Mrs. Leute's father came to the United States, in 1866, and located at Kilbourn, where he engaged in farming for about 
ten years.  His death occurred about 1889, and he is buried at Kilbourn.  Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Leute, as follows:  Theodore, born June 23, 1869, now working with his father on the home farm; Mary Ann, born October 
12, 1871, now residing at home; Helena, born May 30, 1882, residing at present home, and Thaddeus, the first born, who 
died at the age of fourteen.  Mr. Leute is a communicant of the Catholic Church at Kilbourn.  He is an excellant example 
of a self-made man, and is gaining of a competence and his present estate he has made for himself an enviable reputation 
as an industrious and honest man.  His vocation is one well suited to his characteristics and calls forth hospitality, 
charity, and brotherly kindness.  He has not been active in political movements, but is a gentleman who keeps abreast of 
the times on the important issues, and lends his influence for right and the best in local and national government.  The 
development and extension of the great agricultural interests in this part of the country, are in part due to his industry 
and push and the success which has been his justly deserved.
 
Portraits of Mr. Leute and his estimable wife are shown on another page in this volume.


Transcribed by Jaimee Hedlund






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