FREDERICK WILLHOFT - Biography

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This biography appears on page 652-653 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


FREDERICK WILLHOFT, furniture dealer, Burlington; born in Holstein,
Germany, in 1823. He came to Burlington and located in 1852; worked here
one year, at his trade of cabinetmaker; then went to Racine and worked
there one year; in October, 1854, returned to Burlington and started in
the furniture business and undertaking for himself; continued until
1861, when he enlisted the 9th Wis, Co. E.; was attached to the Western
Department, and with his regiment in Kansas, Missouri and the Indian
Territory, and was in the engagements at Teutonia, Mo., Arkadelphia and
Prairie Grove; mustered out, Dec. 7, 1864; returned to Burlington, and
went into the same business again. He married, in Burlington, in
February 1856, Theresa Reinhardt, of Burlington, and has one child-
Louisa, born June 24, 1857. In 1854, he bought a town lot, in block 27,
and built a store and residence, in which he carries a large and varied
stock of parlor and bedroom furniture, extension tables, a full line of
upholstered goods of Eastern manufacture, besides picture frames, etc.,
a large portion of which he manufactures himself; also does undertaking.