HERMAN FISCHER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 639 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


HERMAN FISCHER, farmer, Secs. 13 and 14; P. O. Burlington born in
Westphalia, Germany, in 1840; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1847
; they located in Burlington, bought a farm, and engaged at farming; his
fatber, William F., was born in September, 1812 ; he married, in
Germany, Miss Magdalena Brown, born July 14, 1809; they had one son-
Herman; his father died in July, 1875 his mother died in 1849 ; Herman,
the sole heir to the property, succeeded his father on the farm; married
in Burlington, in October, 1869, Miss Louisa Will; she was born in
Germany, Aug. 24, 1846: have four children- Lena, born April, 1871;
Mary, June, 1872; Herman, May, 1875; Theresa, May, 1878. Mr. Fischer has
led an industrious life; he owns 175 acres of land in Burlington
Township, and ten acres in Wheatland- 185 acres of land altogether,
finely improved; he and his family are members of the Burlington
Catholic Church.