HENRY SOBBE - 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.


  HENRY SOBBE, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Wheatland; he was born in
  Westphalia, Germany, July, 1846; he came to Wisconsin in March, 1866;
  he first located in Wheatland, and rented a farm, which he
  successfully worked up to 1872 he then removed to Burlington and
  bought a farm, on which he is now living. He married, in Burlington,
  May 4, 1868, Miss Gertrude Schumacher; she was born in Burlington
  Township; they have four children-- Regina, born in 1873; Josephine,
  1874; Joseph, 1876; John, 1878. Mr. Sobbe has led an industrious life,
  and has been very successful; he owns eighty acres of land, finely
  improved. Members of the Wheatland Catholic Church.