JOHN F. SCHWARTZ - Biography

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This biography appears on page 679 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JOHN F. SCHWARTZ, Waterford; born in Germany Aug. 15,1816; son of David
and Hannah Schwartz; he came to America in 1837, and located at Boston,
Mass.; came to Wisconsin in 1841; bought eighty acres on Sec. 35, at
East Troy; Mr. Schwartz built the first brewery at that place in 1847;
it was burned about 1850; he then turned his attention to farming; also
worked at building log huts, cooperage, splitting rails, etc. Married,
at 30 years of age, Miss Barbara Cabperil, of Lancaster Co., Penn.; his
wife died Nov. 26, 1875; was buried at Honey Creek Cemetery; his second
marriage was to Miss Sarah E. Dewar, March 18, 1879, daughter of John
and Elizabeth, of Vernon, Waukesha Co., Wis.