WM. SCHROEDER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 633 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WM. SCHROEDER, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Caledonia; was born in Germany, in
1824; came to Wisconsin in 1842; lived in Millwaukee[sic] County for
nineteen years and removed to Racine County, where he has resided ever
since. In 1847 he married Miss Katherine Stullenwack, a native of
Germany; they have six children, two sons and four daughters. Mr. and
Mrs. Schroeder are members of the Catholic Church. In Milwaukee County
he was Town Treasurer for three terms and a member of the Town Board of
Supervisors; since his residence here he has served as Town Treasurer
and Justice of the Peace. Owns forty acres of land in Sections 10 and
19.