JOHN H. MELCHERS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 646 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN H. MELCHERS, saloon-keeper, Burlington; was born in Recklinghausen,
Westphalia, Prussia, in 1821; Aug. 10, 1854, came to Burlington, and
located; he bought one lot, in 1857, and put up a residence close by the
depot of the, W. U. R. R.; opened a saloon, and shipped produce grain to
Chicago and Milwaukee markets, and is engaged in the same business yet;
he also deals in lime, salt and cement, and does a good business; in
1860, he built a large warehouse close to the railroad station for the
storage of his grain, and has gradually increased his property till he
now owns over twenty-two lots, the whole four corners around the Western
Union railroad depot, including the Warner estate, which he purchased
lately, and occupies the residence situated on it, and now owns the most
valuable property in Burlington. He married, Nov. 24, 1857, in
Wheatland, Gertie Bultmoeller, a resident there, and ha~ and has seven
children- Anna, Clara, John W., Laura M., Joseph W., Emma M., Agnes E.