MRS. MARY GILL - 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.


MRS. MARY GILL, widow, Burlington; the daughter of Nicholas and Mary
Mich; she was born in Prussia in 1837; came with her parents to this
State in 1832; her father located at Paris, Kenosha Co., bought eighty
acres of land, built a residence and improved the land; he died in
Paris, March, 1867; her mother still lives on the farm; they had five
children- Elizabeth, Peter, Eva, Mary and John. Mary married, in June,
1859, in Brighton, Jacob Gill, who was born in Prussia Aug., 1835, and
came to this country the same year as his wife's parents; he owned the
residence Mrs. Gill now occupies, and was in the saloon business; he
died in Burlington, March 1, 1875; they had six children- Jacob, Peter,
John, Katie, Eva and William.