JOSEPH KEIKEBUSCH - Biography

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This biography appears on page 644 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JOSEPH KEIKEBUSCH, farmer, Secs. 5, 18 and 19; P. O.; Burlington; born
in Germany, in June, 1840; he served three years in the Prussian
artillery. was honorably discharged; emigrated to Burlington Township,
Wis. in 1866; engaged at working a farm till 1868. Married in Burlington
village, Oct. 1868, Mrs. Margaret Fischman, who was born in Germany, in
1839, the widow of Henry Fischman; had by him two children, both living-
Henry and Frank; by her second husband, has had five children, three are
living Elizabeth, born July, 1869, Mary, March, 1874, Margaret, March,
1876. Mr. Keikebusch owns 200 acres of fine land, situated on Secs. 18
and 19, well improved. Members of the Burlington Catholic Church.