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CHARLES ZUMMACH
Charles Zummach was born December 6, 1844 in Pammen, Germany. He came to America when about nine years old. His mother and sister passed away on the boat crossing the ocean. The others of the family located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where as a small boy, he worked in a spice factory and later was employed in the Newhall House, a leading hotel of Milwaukee.
At the age of sixteen he accepted employment as cabin boy on a boat plying between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, then between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Lucy Bert-hram in 1863. On one trip up the river the boat carried a cargo of sugar and salt.
In 1864 he made the river trip from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Montana landing in the latter place June 8, this being two years and a few days prior to the Custer Massacre. From Fort Benton he went to Alder Gulch, Montana where the gold excitement was attracting people from the east and west. On June 20, of that year, Mr. Zummach was one of a party of four who sunk the first prospect hole on the site where the city of Helena, Montana stands today. After twelve years in the Alder Gulch country and Virginia City, where a person got more experience in a single day or night than he can get now in a year, Mr. Zummach returned to Milwaukee for a nine months visit to his old home and friends. However, the frontier had made its impression, and he again came west in 1877, this time landing in the Black Hills. For a year he followed prospecting, but as this did not prove remunerative he took up another line of business and started the Cliff House, halfway between Spearfish and Deadwood, South Dakota, conducting this place until 1884 when he sold the business and moved to the Bear Lodge country. Here he took up a ranch and engaged in the cattle business until the time of his death. On December 23, 1885 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Louisa Hohlfeld at Deadwood, South Dakota.
In spite of his years, he was active, had a clear mind, took an active interest in current affairs, enjoyed visiting with friends right up to the last. He was in Belle Fourche a few days prior to his death, enroute from Spearfish to the ranch where he expected to supervise and assist with some improvements. He retired as usual and passed away some time during the night.
Mr. Zummach is survived by his wife Louisa, a daughter, Mrs. Erma Craig and two grandsons.
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