AUGUST BRANDES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 636 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

AUGUST BRANDES farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Burlington; born in Germany,
January, 1836. Married, in Germany, in 1860, Miss' Henrietta Lindberg,
who was born there in 1842; they have had nine children -- seven now
living -- Caroline, born in 1864; Henrietta, in 1865; Louisa, in 1869;
Augusta, in 1872; Emma, in 1874; Minnie, in 1876; Philip, in 1879. Mr.
Brandes came to Wisconsin and first located in Bloomfield Township,
where he worked at farming till 1874; then removed to Wheatland
Township, where he rented a farm and lived thereon till 1875; then
purchased the farm of fifty acres on which he is now living, farming
successfully. Members of the Roman Catholic Church.