GEORGE E. ROSENHAUER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 649 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

GEORGE E. ROSENHAUER, farmer, Sec. 20 P. O. Burlington; born in Bavaria,
Jan. 17, 1831; came to Worcester Co., Mass., in 1845; was there employed
in Hamilton's Southbridge Woolen Mills for nearly ten years; leaving
there, he worked for a short time in Worcester, Mass.; afterward in
Mamaroneck, N. Y.; came to Burlington Township in 1855, and bought a
farm consisting of 120 acres; in 1867 he purchased, in addition,
sixty-two acres of land in Burlington; in 1873 he bought forty more
acres of land situated in Wheatland. Married, in Webster, Mass., Jan.,
1854, Miss Mena Holly, who was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, March, 1827;
they have six children- Emma, born in March, 1855; Christopher, April,
1856; Willie, Feb., 1860; Tilda, Dec., 1863; Lydia, Feb., 1868;
Gottlieb, July, 1870. Mr. Rosenhauer was Overseer of Highways from 1858
to 1878. His son succeeded him in that position. He owns 222 acres of
land, well improved. Devoted members of the Lutheran Church.