History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 787-788
 
HERMAN MALSCH.  One of the most progressive of the summer generation of 
business men in Walworth county and one of the most deserving is Herman 
MALSCH, a representative of one of our most highly esteemed families, and his 
birth occurred at Springfield, this county, on November 1, 1874.  He is the 
son of John Frederick and Christina (RADER) MALSCH, the father being generally 
known as "Fred" MALSCH.  He came from Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, about 1865 and 
located near Springfield, Wisconsin.  In Germany he grew to manhood and 
married, and his wife died before he left the old country.  Here he was 
married a second time, his last wife being Christina RADER, who was from the 
same part of Germany in which he was reared.  The father of the subject was a 
mason by trade, as was also the paternal grandfather, who did a great deal of 
contracting.  Fred MALSCH established a good home at Springfield, where he 
spent the rest of his life, dying in May 1900, and there his widow still 
resides.  The subject has one brother, Andrew, who is in the Moore Hardware 
store at Lake Geneva.
 
Herman MALSCH grew to manhood at Springfield and when about fourteen years of 
age he began learning the mason's trade with his father.  In 1892 and 1893 he 
took a position in a store, but gave it up after a year and a half to resume 
his trade as a mason.  Early in life he began taking contracts in a small 
way.  In 1895 he and Edward C. REINERT formed a partnership for doing all 
kinds of concrete and masonry work at lake Geneva.  In 1906 they took in 
another partner, William BAUMBACH, under the firm name of the Cement Stone & 
Brick Manufacturing Company.  They have pushed this business and added various 
lines which are related to those they originally had, including the building 
of silos of cement blocks, in which they are doing a very extensive and 
rapidly growing business.  This is one of the best known firms of its kind in 
southern Wisconsin and would be a credit to any community.  They are well 
equipped with every modern appliance and apparatus for prompt and high grade 
work and only skilled workmen are employed.
 
In the fall of 1909 the firm began the building of their present superb plant 
in Lake Geneva, a two-story building of cement block with a basement, the 
building being fifty by one hundred feet with an office added that is twenty-
four by fifty feet, built of their new granite-finish concrete block, which 
has almost the exact appearance of real stone of a high grade.
 
Herman MALSCH was married on November 25, 1900, to Nina JOHNSON, daughter of 
David and Miranda Abigail (BOGARDUS) JOHNSON, a sketch of whom will be found 
on another page of this work.  She was born in North Geneva, this county, and 
her parents were from Albany, New York.  They lived in Illinois for some time, 
then, about 1877, came on to Walworth county, Wisconsin, and located on a farm 
in North Geneva and here became well established.  Six children have been born 
to the subject and wife, namely: Rose Arlene, Floyd, Alvan, Donald Everett, 
Glenn and Harvey.  Rose Arlene and Donald Everett died in infancy.  Mr. MALSCH 
belongs to the Mystic Workers.
 
Submitted by Carol