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Edward Vande Casteele (1855-1914)
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Parents:
Marie Teresa Van De Wiele (1828-1906)
Siblings: Rosalia Vande Casteele (1853-1927)
Spouses: Mary Elizabeth Dundon (1858-1905) Minnie Kersten
Children: Mary Esther Eleanor Vande Casteele (1883-????) Agnes Odelia Vande Castle (1885-1975)
Edward Francis Jerome Vande Casteele, Jr. (1888-1910) Clara Elizabeth Vande Castle (1890-1977)
Louis Alphonse Vande Castle (1896-1938) |
Edward Vande Casteele was born on March 22, 1855 in Bruges, Belgium, the second child of Louis Vande Casteele and Marie Van De Wiele. As a child Edward lived with his parents in Moerkerke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium where his father had been born. On June 4, 1867 at the age of 12 Edward arrived in New York with his family. By 1870 the family was living in De Pere, Wisconsin.
At the age of 22, in 1877 Edward, along with a partner J.B. Heyrman established the first Dutch Catholic Newspaper in the United States, the De Pere Standard. In 1880 Edward was living with his parents and sister, Mary in his parent's Village of De Pere home.
On May 9, 1882 Edward married Mary Elizabeth Dundon in De Pere, Wisconsin. Their first child, Mary, was born in 1883.
From 1885-1889 Edward was the Postmaster of De Pere, during Grover Cleveland's first administration. He also served in the De Pere City Council and served a term as City Clerk, besides continuing to run the De Pere Standard with his partner. In 1889 the partnership with J.B. Heyrman which ran the Standard was disolved and Edward continued to run it alone until it suspended publication in 1907.
On September 6, 1905 Edward's wife Mary died in DePere. In 1907 he married Minnie Kersten of Freedom, Wisconsin. Beginning in 1908 he served as a policeman at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. for the last year of Theodore Roosevelt's term which he continued until 1913 through the Taft administration. In 1910, while Edward was living in Washington, D.C. with his second wife, Minnie, and sons Henry & Louis, his son Edward passed away from complications of an operation in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
In 1914 Edward took charge of a weekly paper in Teutopolis, Illinois, where he passed away on June 21, 1914 at the age of 59. He is buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery in De Pere, Wisconsin.
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Gravesite at Mount Calvary |
