Surnames: Erdman, Greenly

----Sources: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin

CARL F. W. ERDMAN, meat market, Main street, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was born in Germany, Aug. 13, 1840; came to America in 1865, and settled in Jefferson Co., Wis., where he worked by the day at farming until 1867, when he moved to Black River Falls, and started to work for H. B. Greenly until 1874, when he started a meat market for himself, and built the building which he now occupies the same year. Mr. Erdman is a member of I. O. O. F., Albion Lodge, No. 134, and was married to his wife, Mary; who was a native of Germany, and born Feb. 21, 1843. They have three children—Augusta E., Pauline W., and Fredrick C. A. Carl.