JOHN BESACK - Biography

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This biography appears on page 630 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN BESACK, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Racine; was born in New York in
1837; came Wisconsin with his parents in 1842; married Miss Helen Sitces
in 1861; she was born in 1840; th have ten children- three boys and
seven girls, all members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Besack was
Postmaster in 1877 and 1878; owns forty-three acres of land, situated
three miles north of Racine, 29, Range 23, Town 4; he values his land at
$100 per acre; has a fine fruit orchard of two acres, and, fine garden,
and raises a quantity of vegetables of all kinds.