BIOGRAPHIES: Anthony SHIMON, Oak Grove Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 7 January 2002 ==================================================================== Anthony Shimon, now deceased, was a hard working, substantial citizen, who developed a good farm in Oak Grove Township and found time likewise to do general carpenter work for his neighbors. He was a good citizen, a kind husband, and an indulgent father, and in his religious obligations a faithful Catholic. He took the greatest pride in his family, gave the older ones a good start in life, and was looking pleasantly forward to the future of the others at the time of his death. He was born in Prague, Bohemia, May 27, 1859, and was brought to America by his parents, John and Catherine Shimon, who settled on a farm in Manitowoc County, this state, where they farmed for the remainder of their lives. As he grew up he farmed with his parents and also worked in lumber camps. In 1885 he bought 80 acres of timber land in Manitowoc County, on which a few small buildings had been erected. He remodelled the buildings and erected others, cleared 60 acres of land, and successfully carried on general farming while making general improvements. In 1900 he sold out and came to Barron County where he bought 166 acres in Section 35, Oak Grove Township, to which he later added 35 acres more. He erected a good set of buildings, cleared some of the land, and there successfully carried on general farming and dairying until his death April 3, 1916. Since that time the farm has been conducted along the same general lines by his widow and the sons. Mr. Shimon was married Nov. 18, 1885, to Katherine Schimanek, who was born Nov. 1, 1865, in Manitowoc County. Mr. and Mrs. Shimon became the parents of sixteen children, namely: Mary, Adolph, Anton, Emma, Julia, Sophia, Joseph, Charles, Agnes, Frank, Victor, Anna, Edward, Ludmilla, Benjamin and Martha. Of these children, Adolph is now on the home farm; Mary lives in Rice Lake, this county; Anton is in Phoenix, Ariz.; Emma lives at Rice Lake; Julia is at home; Sophia is the wife of Joseph Meyer of Eau Clair, Wis.; Joseph died at the age of ten years in August, 1904; Agnes is the wife of Henry Meyer of Minneapolis, Minn. Charles and Frank have World War records. Charles was inducted into the United States service Sept. 19, 1917. He trained at Camp Grant with Company F, 341st Infantry, and was afterward assigned to the supply company of the same regiment. He sailed for France September 9, 1918, on the steamer "Elpenor," landed at Liverpool, England, Sept. 21, 1918, and was sent to France soon afterward. He was transferred to Divisional Company 1, in the same division. He returned to the States in the summer of 1919 and was discharged at Camp Grant Aug. 11, 1919. Frank volunteered April 29, 1917, and was sent to Great Lakes, Ill., where he trained for seven months. He was then sent to the Atlantic coast, was on the training ship "Wolverine" for two weeks, and was then sent to Norfolk, Va. At Philadelphia he boarded the "Oklahoma." After seven months on that boat he boarded the "New Mexico" in New York harbor, and then sailed the Atlantic coast as far south as Virginia and as far north as Maine. Jan. 15, 1919, he reached Brest, France, and came back to the United States on the "New Mexico" as consort to the "George Washington," which brought President Wilson back to the United States. Later he was sent to the Canal Zone, patrolled the Pacific Ocean and later was returned to Great Lakes where he was discharged Oct. 10, 1919. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 351-352.