JOHN MIGELIS - 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 MIGELIS, farmer, Sec 12; P. O. Burlington; born in Westphalia,
Germany, in May, 1818; came to Wisconsin in June, 1858, and bought a
farm of forty acres and located on it; has devoted himself to his work,
and his industrious efforts have been crowned with reasonably fair
success; a few years ago he purchased an additional forty acres of land,
situated in Brighton Township. He married in Germany, October, 1849,
Mary Siemon, who was born in Germany, April, 1818; they have had six
children, three living- Anthony, born March, 1851 ; Theresa, October,
1857; Joseph, April, 1860. The younger son is assisting his father on
the farm. He is now the owner of eighty acres of land, finely improved.
Members of the Burlington Catholic Church.