JOHN ELIAS - 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 ELIAS, dealer in groceries, dry goods, hardware and notions, Tabor;
was born in Bohemia in 1852; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1854;
married Miss Mary Dworak in 1878; she was born in Bohemia in 1859. Mr.
Elias is the son of John Elias, who died April 19, 1875; he owns
ninety-seven acres of land, situated five and one-half miles north of
Racine, Sec. 18, Range 23, Town 4; he values his land at $90 per acre;
it is in a good state of cultivation; Mr. Elias is Postmaster at Tabor;
when he was 21 years of age, he was elected Town Treasurer, and
fulfilled his duties so satisfactorily that he was elected for a second
term; he was also elected as Town Clerk, but only served six months,
when he was obliged to resign on account of a cold, contracted while
performing his duties; in 1877, at the request of C. B. Richards & Boas,
of 61 Broadway, N. Y., he accepted the agency their steamship line for
any point in Germany, Bohemia, and to Hamburg, from Racine; also makes
remitances, for parties desiring it, to any of these points.