Adam Apple

Adam Apple (November 27, 1831 – April 19, 1905) was a Kingdom of Bavaria born immigrant to the United States who was a farmer, carpenter, and politician. A Democrat, he served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate and seven years in the State Assembly representing Racine County.

Biography

Apple was born in the Palatinate Region in the Kingdom of Bavaria. He was the eldest of five sons born to Adam and Barbara Beecher Apple. He was raised and worked on his father's farm and was educated in German common schools until age 17, when he set out on his own to emigrate to the United States.

Apple worked on his farm until age 70, when he began leasing the land to his sons, Charles and Harry. He removed to the neighboring community of North Cape, where he remained until his death in 1905. Apple had been in declining health for several months and underwent an operation in Milwaukee in the weeks before his death.

Personal life and family

Adam Apple married Dorothea (Dorothy) Eckel in 1856. Dorothy was also a German American immigrant who had been brought to the United States by her parents at age 7. They had eight children together—four sons and four daughters: Ellen C. (Ella), who married Charles Blakey of Estherville, Iowa, Adam Jr., who died at age 28, Josephine, who married Daniel M. Clump of Monmouth, Iowa, Anna (Annie), a teacher in Mitchellville, Iowa, Andrew J., living in Chicago, Charles E. and Harold (Harry), who remained in Norway and took over their father's farms, and Florence (Flora), the twin of Harry

Apple was a devoted Lutheran, a Mason, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Electoral history Wisconsin Senate (1890)