HENRY SPIEKER - 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 SPIEKER, farmer, section 15; P. O. Burlington; he was born in
Germany, March 13, 1819; came to Wisconsin, in September, 1849; located
in Burlington Township; worked at farming till 1852; he then bought a
farm and located where he is now living. He married, in Burlington, in
1853, Miss Anna Luker she was born in Russia, in 1825; they had eight
children, all living- Henry born March 28, 1854; John, October, 1856;
Francis, October, 1859; Mary, January, 1863 Elizabeth, December, 1865;
Anna, August, 1867; Wilhelm, February, 1869; Bernard, July, 1871. Their
mother died, March 22, 1873. Mr. Spieker married again in February,
1875, Mary Luker; they have no children; Mr. Spieker was Pathmaster for
five years. He owns 234 acres of fine land in Burlington Township, and
twenty acres in Brighton. Members of the Burlington Catholic Church.