From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean. 

p. 556
GUS. FRANZHEIM, who owns a profitable saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia, 
is accounted one of the city's intelligent citizens, who is capable of 
lending a helping hand toward her welfare and prosperity.  He is a son 
of Louis Franzheim, a German by birth, who came to the United States 
during his early manhood, and located in Wheeling, where, for a time, he 
followed the trade of a shoemaker.  He was afterward engaged in the 
saloon business for a number of years.
	Gus. Franzheim was born in Wheeling, February 6, 1861.  He has one 
brother, Louis, of New York, and one sister, Jennie, of Wheeling.  
During his boyhood days he attended the public schools of Wheeling, and 
obtained a fair education, after which he entered Frasher's Business 
College.  Mr. Franzheim opened his career by going to Memphis, 
Tennessee, and there identified himself with Jones, Huhn & Company, 
printers.  He remained in their employ for nine years, and later was 
three years with the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad Company 
as yard clerk and foreman.  He then went to St. Louis, where he followed 
the trade of a paper ruler, which he had learned in Wheeling, at the 
Intelligencer's office, and thus passed seven years.  Subsequently he 
was engaged in the meat market and grocery business for a year, previous 
to embarking in the saloon business at No. 29 Tenth street, where he has 
been ever since.  He is married and has one child, Porter; two are 
deceased, - Hazel Palmer, who died aged three years, and one who died at 
birth.
	In politics, Mr. Franzheim prefers the Democratic party.  He is a 
devout member of the German Evangelical Lutheran church, is prominent in 
K. of P. circles, and also belongs to the Knights of Fidelity, of which 
he is a charter member.  He is an intelligent and capable man, and 
attends closely to his business.