VINCENT PAUL BAIVIER
Operator of Big Wooden Shoe Factory in Kiel Passes Away
Kiel – (Special) – Paul Vincent Baivier, well known resident of Kiel and operator of what was at one time the largest wooden shoe plant in the United States, passed away at the Manitowoc county asylum Wednesday evening. We would have observed his 62nd birthday the following day.
Mr. Baivier was born at Ellsworth, Wis., Pierce county, September 30, 1875, the son of Francis and Margaret Baivier. When he was seven years old he came to St. Anna with his parents where he later operated a wooden shoe factory with his father. He was married to Clara Urban of Kohler on June 10, 1907 and the couple resided at St. Anna until 1910 when they moved to Kiel. In this city Mr. Baivier, together with his father, established what was then the largest wooden shoe plant in the country. Mr. Baivier conducted his business until 1935 when ill health forced him to retire.
Survivors are his wife, three children, Helen of Milwaukee, Russell of Los Angeles and Kenneth, at home; and one sister Mrs. John Conrad of Belfast, Minn.
About ten years ago, when Mr. Baivier's shoe factory was at its zenith, 8,000 pairs of wood shoes were produced annually, _____ {illegible} about one-third of the nation's top production. All the labor was performed by two men. And one-half of the shoes were sold to Montgomery Ward company, Chicago, and the bulk of the _____ to the theatrical profession.
The shoe factory is an ______ {illegible} of a little backwoods cabin where Belgian trapper first carved out wooden shoes 85 years ago for a German and Belgian farmer in Manitowoc County.
The Sheboygan Press - Friday, October 1, 1937 – P. 4
Operator of Big Wooden Shoe Factory in Kiel Passes Away
Kiel – (Special) – Paul Vincent Baivier, well known resident of Kiel and operator of what was at one time the largest wooden shoe plant in the United States, passed away at the Manitowoc county asylum Wednesday evening. We would have observed his 62nd birthday the following day.
Mr. Baivier was born at Ellsworth, Wis., Pierce county, September 30, 1875, the son of Francis and Margaret Baivier. When he was seven years old he came to St. Anna with his parents where he later operated a wooden shoe factory with his father. He was married to Clara Urban of Kohler on June 10, 1907 and the couple resided at St. Anna until 1910 when they moved to Kiel. In this city Mr. Baivier, together with his father, established what was then the largest wooden shoe plant in the country. Mr. Baivier conducted his business until 1935 when ill health forced him to retire.
Survivors are his wife, three children, Helen of Milwaukee, Russell of Los Angeles and Kenneth, at home; and one sister Mrs. John Conrad of Belfast, Minn.
About ten years ago, when Mr. Baivier's shoe factory was at its zenith, 8,000 pairs of wood shoes were produced annually, _____ {illegible} about one-third of the nation's top production. All the labor was performed by two men. And one-half of the shoes were sold to Montgomery Ward company, Chicago, and the bulk of the _____ to the theatrical profession.
The shoe factory is an ______ {illegible} of a little backwoods cabin where Belgian trapper first carved out wooden shoes 85 years ago for a German and Belgian farmer in Manitowoc County.
The Sheboygan Press - Friday, October 1, 1937 – P. 4
VINCENT PAUL BAIVIER
Operator of Big Wooden Shoe Factory in Kiel Passes Away
Kiel – (Special) – Paul Vincent Baivier, well known resident of Kiel and operator of what was at one time the largest wooden shoe plant in the United States, passed away at the Manitowoc county asylum Wednesday evening. We would have observed his 62nd birthday the following day.
Mr. Baivier was born at Ellsworth, Wis., Pierce county, September 30, 1875, the son of Francis and Margaret Baivier. When he was seven years old he came to St. Anna with his parents where he later operated a wooden shoe factory with his father. He was married to Clara Urban of Kohler on June 10, 1907 and the couple resided at St. Anna until 1910 when they moved to Kiel. In this city Mr. Baivier, together with his father, established what was then the largest wooden shoe plant in the country. Mr. Baivier conducted his business until 1935 when ill health forced him to retire.
Survivors are his wife, three children, Helen of Milwaukee, Russell of Los Angeles and Kenneth, at home; and one sister Mrs. John Conrad of Belfast, Minn.
About ten years ago, when Mr. Baivier's shoe factory was at its zenith, 8,000 pairs of wood shoes were produced annually, _____ {illegible} about one-third of the nation's top production. All the labor was performed by two men. And one-half of the shoes were sold to Montgomery Ward company, Chicago, and the bulk of the _____ to the theatrical profession.
The shoe factory is an ______ {illegible} of a little backwoods cabin where Belgian trapper first carved out wooden shoes 85 years ago for a German and Belgian farmer in Manitowoc County.
The Sheboygan Press - Friday, October 1, 1937 – P. 4
Operator of Big Wooden Shoe Factory in Kiel Passes Away
Kiel – (Special) – Paul Vincent Baivier, well known resident of Kiel and operator of what was at one time the largest wooden shoe plant in the United States, passed away at the Manitowoc county asylum Wednesday evening. We would have observed his 62nd birthday the following day.
Mr. Baivier was born at Ellsworth, Wis., Pierce county, September 30, 1875, the son of Francis and Margaret Baivier. When he was seven years old he came to St. Anna with his parents where he later operated a wooden shoe factory with his father. He was married to Clara Urban of Kohler on June 10, 1907 and the couple resided at St. Anna until 1910 when they moved to Kiel. In this city Mr. Baivier, together with his father, established what was then the largest wooden shoe plant in the country. Mr. Baivier conducted his business until 1935 when ill health forced him to retire.
Survivors are his wife, three children, Helen of Milwaukee, Russell of Los Angeles and Kenneth, at home; and one sister Mrs. John Conrad of Belfast, Minn.
About ten years ago, when Mr. Baivier's shoe factory was at its zenith, 8,000 pairs of wood shoes were produced annually, _____ {illegible} about one-third of the nation's top production. All the labor was performed by two men. And one-half of the shoes were sold to Montgomery Ward company, Chicago, and the bulk of the _____ to the theatrical profession.
The shoe factory is an ______ {illegible} of a little backwoods cabin where Belgian trapper first carved out wooden shoes 85 years ago for a German and Belgian farmer in Manitowoc County.
The Sheboygan Press - Friday, October 1, 1937 – P. 4
Gravesite Details
ossw Clara
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
