CHARLES HILLMANN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 640-643 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

CHARLES HILLMANN, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Burlington; born in Westphalia,
Germany, Dec. 25, 1835; came to Wisconsin in 1854, with his parents;
they located in Brighton Township engaged at farming on the same place
where his father, Otto Hillman, is still living; Charles lived with his
father and assisted him in working the farm till 1863, at which time he
rented a farm and commenced life for himself - in 1866 he removed to
Burlington Township and bought the farm on Section 23, on which he is
now living; be has had a very industrious life; he married, in June,
1861; Miss Mary Fohs, who was born in Germany in 1844 they have eight
children- Bertha, born in December 1862; Otto, September, 1864; Emma,
September, 1866; Caroline, September, 1868; Louis, October, 1871; Mary,
January, 1873; Charles, August, 1875; Ernst, September, 1878. Mr.
Hillmann was Pathmaster in 1877. He owns 101 acres of good land, finely
improved. Members of the Burlington Lutheran Church.