FRANK ALTHOFF - Biography

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This biography appears on page 634 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

FRANK ALTHOFF, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Burlington; born in Westphalia,
Germany, July 3, 1846; he came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1854;
they located in Wheatland, and engageed at farming; in 1856 they bought
a farm, on which they worked till 1864, and then moved to Alliance
Township, Walworth Co.; purchased a farm and lived there until 1872; his
parents, Henry and Catharine Althoff, then moved to the village of
Burlington, where they are at present residing; Frank married in May,
1869, Miss Anna Suer, who was born in February, 1854; they have three
children-Henry, born in February, 1870; Mary, February, 1872; Joseph,
February, 1874; in 1870 Frank left his parents and bought the farm of
sixty-two acres of land on which he is now living, and has well improved
it.