GEBARD HIDDING - 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.

GEBARD HIDDING, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Burlington; born in Westphalia,
Prussia, 1813; came to Burlington in 1847, bought a land claim from
Herman Newuth for seventy-three acres and brought his family here; he
married in Prussia, and has twelve children living- Mary, Caroline,
William, Christine, Charles, Lizzie, Annie, Louis, August, Francis,
Theodore, Louisa ; he owns 140 acres in Sections 26, 27 and 34; he built
the residence he lives in, with barns, etc., and has improved the farm;
he raises stock and grain.