HENRY RIMKEL - Biography

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This biography appears on page 650 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HENRY RIMKEL, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Burlington; he was born in Germany,
Sept. 6, 1836; came to Wisconsin in 1860, located in Burlington, and has
since engaged at farming. He married in April, 1865, Mrs. Anna
Steinford, born in Germany; she had four children- Anthony, Susan, Anna
and Matilda; they have one child- Christina. Mr. R. was elected member
of the School Board in the spring of 1879, and is now filling that
office. He owns 170 acres of fine land, spacious barns, grainaries and
good, comfortable house.