JOHN KEMPTNER - 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.


JOHN KEMPTNER, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Burlington; born in Germany, May
15,1825. Married, in Germany, in October, 1847, Miss Theresa Ubleis,
born August, 1822; they have four children -- Jobn, born October, 1852;
Frank, October, 1857; Michael, September, 1860; Theresa, Jul 1863. Mr.
Kemptner is by trade a carpenter and housebuilder; he, with his wife and
one child, came to Burlington in September, 1854; worked at his trade
until 1867 ; in 1865, he purchased 134 acres which he is now living and
farming; bought an additional 36 acres of land; now owns 170 acres of
good land, situated in Sec. 3, well improved. Members of the Burlington
Catholic Church.