| Additional Information: | Built in 1887, secondary sources indicate the house was built by “M. Knaut” and sold to Mary Schulenberg (b. circa 1847). Mary’s stepfather’s name was Ernst Knauth and its possible (in addition to a spelling error) the house was built by him for Mary to reside in. Mary was the daughter of John and Charlotte Schulenberg, the former of which ran the “Brown Deer tavern.” John died circa 1953 and Charlotte married Ernst Knauth, who would go on to serve as the proprietor of the Brown Deer Hotel (no longer extant; and presumably the aforementioned “Brown Deer tavern”), as well as the local postmaster until 1887. In any case, Mary is understood to have resided in the home from circa 1887 until selling in 1921 to carpenter Carl Leudtke. In 1966, the house was purchased by the Hickey family. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for information in Additional Comments below:
Will for John Schulenberg, Included in “Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987, Wills, Vol. 1 or C-3, 1838-1879, 322-327, Available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed January 2018; Mimi Bird, “Granville Township Settlers,” 2 vols., 1:280-81, Digitized and available online at http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ compoundobject/collection/BrownDeer/id/1740/rec/1, Accessed January 2018; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1850-1930, Mary Schulenberg died in 1930; The 1905 census enumerates her fourteen-year-old niece as residing with her, Wisconsin State Census, 1905, Available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed January 2018; Biographical sketch for Ernst Knauth in Howard Louis Conard, ed., History of Milwaukee County From Its First Settlement to the Year 1895, 3 vols. (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 3: 271-72; Dorothy Kittleson, ed., Brown Deer’s Heritage Almanac, 11 (map), 13. There is no evidence of Ernst or Charlotte as residing in the Brown Deer area after Ernst’s last appointment as postmaster. It is possible, however, that the Knauths’ resided in the home with Mary for a period. Despite that possibility, Ernst Knauth’s significance would have been during his tenure as the hotel proprietor and postmaster, which pre-dates the subject home’s construction; Atlas: Town of Granville (1936 and 1937-38) both atlases available at the Milwaukee Public Central Library. |
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