JACOB BUSCHERT - 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.

JACOB BUSCHERT, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Burlington; born in Buffalo, N.
Y., Feb. 6, 1833 ; came to Wisconsin in October, 1842, with his parents,
who located in Burlington Township, and bought a farm - he is a son of
the late Aloysius Buschert, who was born in Strasburg, Germany, in April
1796; married in Germany, in October, 1825, Miss Elizabeth Trapp, born
in Germany in 1803; they had nine children-seven now living--- Gregory,
Agnes, Julia, Jacob, Elizabeth, Mary and Charles; the, father died in
November, 1870; his wife still survives him; Charlie is the sole heir to
the farm where his father lived; he is now working it successfully, and
caring for his mother and sister; he owns 200 acres of land, finely
improved; Jacob is the owner of the farm adjoining which consists of 120
1/2 acres of fine land, well improved. He married in Burlington village,
in June, 1865, Miss Anna Stark, who was born in Westphalia, Germany, the
16th of October, 1812 ; they have bad seven children- five are living --
Frank, August, Gregory, Charlie and Elizabeth. Mr. Jacob Buschert was
elected, in 1872, Director of School Board, and still holds that office.
Members of the Burlington Roman Catholic Church.