JOSEPH JACOBS - Biography

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


JOSEPH JACOBS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Burlington; born in Germany March
14, 1846; he came to Wisconsin in 1854 with his parents; they located in
Burlington Township, and engaged at farming, which his father followed
until his death; he was born in Germany in 1818, married in Germany in
1841, Justin Karman, she was born in Germany; they had eight children,
four are living - Frank, born, 1841, Elizabeth, 1843, Joseph, 1846,
Wena, 1855; their mother died in May, 1861 their father died Oct. 13,
1874; Joseph succeeded his father on the farm. He married in Burlington,
in 1868, Mrs. Julia Kottknbosek, she was born in Germany in 1846 they
have four children- Mena, born April, 1870; William, 1871; Charley,
1874; Edward, 1877. Mr. Jacobs owns 116 acres of fine land; handsomely
improved. Member of the Burlington Catholic Church.