He was a blacksmith by trade but in later life turned his attention to the ice business in this city and in 1868 built a flour mill on South Water street, which he continued to own and operate until his death in May 1879, his son Charles Jr., being associated with him in this undertaking.
The mother of Charles Manegold Jr. bore the maiden name of Wilhelmina Notbohm, and she too was born in Braunschweig, Germany, while her death occurred in Milwaukee in 1909.
He thoroughly mastered the business in principle and detail and in 1871 was admitted to a partnership under the firm style of Hotchkiss & Manegold.
In 1876, he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator, and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.
It has breweries in downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, and nearby at Fox Head Springs, a business has been developed to substantial proportions and in its conduct Manegold displayed the same spirit of enterprise, determination and progressiveness which characterized him in his other industrial and commercial connections.
He also benefited greatly by travel abroad and visited Spitsbergen, Egypt, the Holy Land, South America and other points of wide interest.
As a member of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce he served for twenty years as one of the committee on arbitration.
He closely studied the questions which were vital to the welfare and progress of the city and state in which he made his home, and his support of any measure was an indication of his firm belief in its value as related to good government.