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a. Note:   N8 Herman was born in Milwaukee and went through the eighth grade in school. He was the second oldest of 12 children. His first job was at the age of fourteen at the Rauschenberger Rope Factory. After he left that job, he went to work as a shoe cutter for the Weinbrenner Shoe Factory. He met Gertrude Steffen there, when she was 17. After their marriage, he got a job as a truck driver for the Coverall Dry Cleaners, picking up and delivering coveralls to the factory workers. He remained at this job for about twenty years. During the Depression, he took over the route himself, and he and Gertie laundered and ironed all the coveralls - a strenuous job with little pay. He had a still in the attic to make a little moonshine on the side. After the factories no longer required their workers to wear coveralls, Herman got a job at Wisconsin Motors as a motor assembler, and remained there for 20 years until he retired. (He got $138/mo. as a pension, and he lived for another 35 years. He always laughed and said he had really taken them to the cleaners, since he received the pension for almost twice as long as he had worked for them!) He moved to Weyauwega, Wisconsin, where he used to own a cabin on a lake, and tended a large garden, went fishing, and met friends at the Friendly Tap. When his third wife became ill, he moved back to Maidson and lived near his daughter, Doris. He was finally unable to care for himself any longer, and died in a nursing home at the age of 100.


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