Carroll County IAGenWeb

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah August 20, 2020

For eleven years past in the active practice of dentistry at Carroll, Dr. Frank H. Hillemeyer has gained a reputation throughout a wide section in this part of the state and is one of the acknowledged experts in his specialty. He is a native of Shellsburg, Wisconsin, and was born August 27, 1873, a son of Frank and Mary (Luening) Hillemeyer. The father was born at Potterborn, Germany, and the mother at Galena, Illinois. He came to America at the age of thirteen and grew to manhood at Galena. He then moved to Shellsburg and engaged in the grocery and dry-goods business, being a resident of the town about thirty years. He died in 1887, at the age of forty-eight, his wife surviving until 1907 when she passed away at the age of sixty-three years. They were both members of the Catholic church. He was one of the prominent citizens of Shellsburg and served as a member of the city council and also as mayor of the town. There were ten children, five sons and five daughters, in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hillemeyer, namely: Regina, the wife of Edward Meller, of Webster City, Iowa; Mary, the widow of James Roberts, of Shellsburg; Minnie, the wife of J. J. Jammieson, a resident of Shellsburg and president of the First National Bank of that place; Carrie, one of the Franciscan Sisters, of Zanesville, Ohio; Frank H., of this review; William, who is now engaged in the practice of medicine at Chicago; August, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joseph, an electrician of St. Louis, Missouri; Louisa, who is now living at Shellsburg; and Albert, of Janesville, Wisconsin. The grandparents on the maternal side were Anton and Theresa Luening. They came to America and settled at Galena where the head of the family engaged in farming. He died at the age of ninety and his wife passed away in her eightieth year. They had seven children, Anton, Herman, Frank, May, Emma, Louisa and Regina.

Frank H. Hillemeyer was reared at Shellsburg and received his early education in the parochial and public schools. In 1885 he graduated from the high school and then for several years engaged in clerking in one of the stores of the town. Having decided to follow a professional career, he took up the study of dentistry and in 1900 was graduated at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery with the degree of D.D.S. He came to Carroll and has since practiced with marked success in this city.

On the 23d of August, 1903, Dr. Hillemeyer was united in marriage to Miss Hannah T. Mauger, who was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, a daughter of Joseph and Theresa Mauger, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in America. They were pioneers at Mineral Point and both are now deceased. There were five children in their family, Thomas, William, Joseph, Hannah and Fannie. Three children have come to bless the union of Dr. and Mrs. Hillemeyer, Frank J., Mary and Lois.

Dr. Hillemeyer and his wife are members of the Catholic church in whose teachings they were both reared. He is identified fraternally with the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters and is chief ranger of the latter order in Carroll. Politically he is not identified with any party, preferring to vote for the man rather than in support of any political organization. His clientage is not restricted to Carroll, as he is well known in Carroll and adjoining counties, and through his skill, high character and excellent social qualities has attracted many friends who repose in him their unreserved confidence.

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