HERMAN SIEHOFF - Biography

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This biography appears on page 651 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HERMAN SIEHOFF farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Burlington; born in Westphalia,
Germany, April, 1827; came to Wisconsin in 1846 ; located in Wheatland
Township, and worked at farming; in 1852 be removed to Burlington
Township and entered into partnership with his brother Anthony, they
farming it together on Section 23: in 1861 they separated, Herman having
bought a farm in Section 15, and commenced for himself; in 1865 he
removed to Section 2 and bought thirt six acres of land, where he is now
living, within one mile of Burlington; he still owns the 120 acres in
Section 15- added to his farm, owns altogether 156 acres in two farms,
well improved; married in Burlington, in 1865, Miss Mary Bofenkamp, who
was born in Germany in 1845; they have six children - Henry, born
October, 1866; Anthony, September, 1868; Gerhardt, January, 1871;
Bernard, February, 1874; Elizabeth, August, 1876; Mary, April, 1879.
Members of the Burlington Roman Catholic Church.