ANTHONY GRASS - 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.


ANTHONY GRASS, farmer, See. 17; P. O. Burlington; he was born Jan. 6,
1812; came to Wisconsin June 28, 1844 he first located, in Spring
Prairie, Walworth Co., and worked at farming lived there a few years,
then bought a farm; lived there till 1869, then came to Burlington
Township, bought a farm and settled here. Married, in Detroit, Mich.,
Dec. 25, 1840, Miss Catharine Noblitt; she was born in Germany in Feb.
1812; have had ten children- Nicholas, born Nov. 23, 1841 , Apollina,
July 8, 1845; Catharine, Feb. 4, 1847 ; John H., March 1, 1850;
Elizabeth, April 12, 1852; died in 1875; Joseph, born Dec. 12, 1854;
Franees, Dec. 14, 1856; Ann Margaret, Jan. 23, 1858; Edward, March 20,
1861 ; Johnnie J., Jan. 19, 1862. Mr. Grass owns 126 1/2 acres of
productive land, well improved, with substantial barns and a comfortable
house.