FREDERICK BIERKNER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 635 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

FREDERICK BIERKNER, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O., Burlington - born in Zorbig,
Saxony, in 1809; came to Burlington in 1845, July 15th, and bought
seventy acres of land in Sections 19-20; he improved it and built a
residence and barns; has never married; he has his farm worked by Fred
Khakafsky, who lives in the house built by Mr. Bierkner, who boards with
them; Mr. Bierkner started he [sic] first tin shop in Burlington, in a
building erected by himself as a residence and store.