THEODORE TERHORST - Biography

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This biography appears on page 652 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


THEODORE TERHORST, farmer, Secs. 23 and 24; P. O. Burlington; born in,
Germany September, 1844; he came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1850;
they located in Kenosha village, where they lived till 1853, then came
to Burlington Township, located, and bought the farm which Theodore is
now living on. His father, George Terhorst, was born in July, 1804. He
married, Germany, in 1843, Miss Gertrude Weyyers, born in Germany, in
1806; they have had two children - Wilhelm, born October, 1845;
Theodore, September, 1844. Their father died in July, 1867; His wife
survives him. Theodore married, in Burlington, in 1874, Miss Mary
Holzheimer, born in Bloomfield Township, Racine Co., in 1851; they have
three children-- Gertrude, born April, 1875 ; Barbara, March, 1877;
Otilda, March, 1878. Theodore, his brother Wilhelm and their mother, own
140 acres of good land, finely improved.