BERNARD KRESKEN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 645 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

BERNARD KRESKEN, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Burlington; born in Prussia,
Feb. 8, 1821 ; came to Burlington township in Dec., 1844; worked as farm
laborer till 1849; then bought the farm where he now lives; married, in
Burlington village, in Oct., 1849, Miss Gertrude Beltman, who was born
in 1828; they have had seven children, six now living- William, born in
Sept., 1850; Gertrude, Feb., 1855; Elizabeth, May, 1858; Francesca, May,
1860; Frank, Jan., 1863; John, Jan., 1867; Mr. Kresken served from 1870
to 1873 as Overseer of the Highways; he owns 166 acres of good land- 150
acres - in Racine Co., and sixteen acres across the line in Walworth
Co.; his farm is finely improved; member of the Burlington Roman
Catholic Church.