Beine Farm

The Beine family ties to Slinger go back to about 1864. Philip Beine Sr. owned a farm on the east side of the village. Philip came from Prussia to New York in 1853. He married Mary in 1856 and became a U.S. citizen in 1863 in New York. Philip and Mary had nine children. Herman died from a disease at age 22. It appears that two sons, Philip A. and Joseph stayed in Schleisingerville and the rest of the family members moved away. Philip Sr. stayed on the farm located in what is now the Woodside Heights Subdivision until 1896 when he purchased the house at 111 E. Washington St. He was basically retired at that time but he did rent out the upstairs bedrooms and considered himself to be a landlord. Philip A., born around 1866, left Schleisingerville but returned in 1923 to buy back his dad's old house from Frank Kachelmeier. Philip A. worked as the sexton at St. Peter's. He passed away in 1941. Joseph was born in 1872. Around 1900 he took over the Slinger Bakery with the help of Frank Kachelmeier, a baker from Milwaukee. This attempt was short lived and Joseph went back to the farm and sold the bakery to Frank. Joseph built a second farm on the land near what is now the Slinger High School. He farmed there until his death in 1936. He and his wife Theresa had eight children, Herman, Hilda, Theodore, Louis, Herbert, Mary, Catherine, and Edmund. Herman, Joseph's oldest son, purchased the house at 303 Kettle Moraine Dr. S. in 1922. That house had been built by B. Schleisinger Weil for Leon Schleisinger in 1860. Leon owned it until 1868. It was later purchased by Valentine Fischer who used the basement in his undertaking business.