LORENZ HESS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 640 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

LORENZ HESS, Assessor, Burlington; born in Baden, Germany, Dec. 10,
1816; he came to New York in 1842, and in 1845 went to Worcester County,
Mass., and remained there till 1852; in 1850 came to Wisconsin and
bought a farm in Wheatland, Kenosha County, and returned and brought his
family there in 1852; remained in Wheatland till 1866, then moved to
Burlington; he married, in Albany, N. Y., in 1845, Margaret Glaser, a
native of Bavaria; they have four children -- Elizabeth, married Phillip
Kessler, living in Burlington; John S., married Julia Kraus, and living
in Wheatland; George S., married Maria Holley, aud lives in Burlington,
these three his wife's by her first husband; Ann B., his own daughter,
married John Rasch, and lives in Burlington; Mr. Hess is the agent for
four insurance companies, and also Assessor, which office he has held
five terms at different times; he has also been Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors for three terms; was also Assistant Supervisor of Wheatland
for three years.