CHRISTOPHER WINCKLER - Biography

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

CHRISTOPHER WINCKLER, farmer, Sec. S; P. O. Burlington; born in July,
1813, in Baden, Germany. Married, in September, 1836, in Germany, Miss
Theresa Arnold, who was born in Baden, in 1812. They have had thirteen
children, eleven now living- Theresa, Barbara, Louis, Frederick, Bertha,
Adam, Eliza, Josephine, Catherine, Christopher, Bertha. Mr. Winckler,
with his wife, came to Burlington Township in 1841; located and bought
forty acres of land from an early settler, and he also took eighty acres
on the pre-emption act, making 120 acres altogether; has made additional
purchases of land; now owns 260 acres of good land, well improved. Has
been industrious and successful.