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Pritzlaff & Co
1880s
Henry Pritzlaff
partnership with Fred Miller
1910
1914
01 29 A 2700-Pound Cooking
Range.
Last week the William G. Pritzlaff Co.
installed a steel cooking range weighing 2700 pounds in the kitchen of Sacred
Heart College. It is the largest ever
seen here and was made especially for Sacred Heart College. It is made of malleable iron and steel and is
lined with fire brick four inches thick, is 100 inches long and 30 inches wide,
and has a canopy six feet wide, and is nine feet from the floor to the top of
the canopy, which is connected with a separate chimney to carry off the cooking
odors. It contains two fire boxes with
water fonts connected with an 80-gallon water tank, and has two mammoth
ovens. WG
10 17 
Ad for Round Oak Stoves
Cross Reference: Chief Doe-Wah-Jack appeared on most Round Oak Stove Company advertising
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Pritzlaff & Co, William G |
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Pritzlaff & Miller |
Forty-Eighters: Builders of Watertown, pg 55 |
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Pritzlaff Home |
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Pritzlaff, Agnes |
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Pritzlaff, Henry |
Forty-Eighter,
hardware merchant, flour mill, grain and produce dealer. |
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Pritzlaff, Henry |
Forty-Eighters: Builders of Watertown, pg 55 |
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Pritzlaff, Henry B "Hans" |
1917, Watertown High School Senior YrBk
portrait |
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Pritzlaff, Julianna nee Lehmann (William) |
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Pritzlaff, Ruth |
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Pritzlaff, W G |
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Pritzlaff, W G |
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Pritzlaff, W G |
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Pritzlaff, Waldamar "Waldo" |
1919, Watertown High School Senior YrBk
portrait |
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Pritzlaff, William (Julianna Lehmann) |
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Pritzlaff, William G & Co |
1909, William G Pritzlaff & Co, hardware |
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Pritzlaff, William G & Co |
1913, 307 E Main, hardware, stoves & tinware |
Forty-Eighters:
Builders of Watertown,
pg 55
Forty-Eighter, hardware merchant, flour mill, grain and produce
dealer.
1880s, Partnership with
Fred Miller
Pritzlaff, Henry
B "Hans", 1917, Watertown High School Senior YrBk
portrait
Pritzlaff Home
Champion Tree is Dying
2008
Abstracted
from Watertown
Daily Times, 11 01 2008
The champion
tree is located at 900 East Cady St. which is the current home of John and
Chris Katzenberger and the former home of the Ken and
Dolly Wetzel.
Both men
confirmed the tree is the second oldest Scotch pine tree in Wisconsin and is
located in the front yard of the Cady Street property. The scientific name for the tree is pinus sylvestris.
The tree was
last measured in 2000 by Dave Schumann of Watertown who at the time was a
technologist, quality-yield development research, division of wood quality,
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Products Laboratory in Madison.
John did some
basic checking and using the information he had and with a little estimating,
he believes the tree is about 270 years old.
John told us
many of the largest trees in the state are located in the southern and
southeastern part. A century or more ago
there was a lot of clear cutting in the northern forests and that meant many of
the trees growing today are second or third generation trees as compared to some
of these down here which were left on residential plots of land.
The downside to
this story is John and Ken both confirmed the tree is not in good health. John said there was very little life left in
the tree this fall and he believes the terrible winter of last year and then
coupled with the constant rains of this year did some serious damage to
it. When a tree is approaching 300 years
old, it's just possible it's dying of old age.
The home at 900
Cady St. is one of Watertown's historical ones and was included in Evelyn
Rose's book “Our Heritage of Homes.”
“Henry Pritzlaff was born in Prussia in 1824, came to America in
1856 and in 1864 arrived in Watertown, where he soon engaged in the hardware
business. He built his home shortly
after that. In 1878 Pritzlaff
became a dealer in grain and general farm products.
“The Greek
Revival style Pritzlaff home is well maintained and
most attractive today. It is of
Watertown brick and elongated windows are in evidence in all parts of the
home. Return cornices also show a Greek Revival influence.
“Henry Pritzlaff's son, William, was born in Watertown and took
over his father's hardware business in 1967.
William Pritzlaff married Julianna,
daughter of Fred Lehmann. Lehmann, one
of Watertown's early contractors is said to have built this home
and also to have introduced the use of concrete in Watertown.”
2012 Second largest Scotch pine in state laid
to rest
07 17 When the
Scotch pine tree on John and Chris Katzenberger’s
property at 900 E. Cady St. went down this weekend, more than just the house’s
owners were saddened.
Ken Wetzel, the property’s former owner, spent about
30 years looking out the window at the large tree, which is the second largest
Scotch pine on record in the state.
The 41-foot-tall tree had been dying since about
2008, according to John Katzenberger. After considering the tree’s location close
to the road, he and his wife decided it was time for the gentle giant to come
down.
The tree’s circumference at 4 1/2 feet high was 9
feet, 8 inches, and its total average crown spread or width was 56 feet.
The tree was the second largest Scotch pine on
record in the state of Wisconsin.
The Katzenbergers hope to
donate a cross-section of the tree to the museum at the Octagon House.
http://www.wdtimes.com/news/local/article_91d9d12c-d029-11e1-a819-0019bb2963f4.html
