PETER BAUMANN - Biography ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: WISCONSIN BIOGRAPHY INDEX http://www.rootsweb.com/~wibiog/ 2002 ==================================================================== This biography appears on page 634 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin... published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879. PETER BAUMANN, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Burlington; born in Baden, Germany, in 1835; came to Burlington direct in 1854; his father bought 120 acres of land in Sections 24 and 25, and built the house and barns on it; his father died in Burlington in 1871 his mother died in Burlington in 1857; before his father died, Peter bought the 120 acres owned by his father, and also bought eighty acres more in Section 25, which he afterward sold, keeping only 120 acres; he married in Burlington, in 1866, Dina Greibel, and has five children -- William J., George P., Anthony, Bruno and Leo, all living at home with their parents.