G. (Gregor) Bock Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Muscoda, Biographical Sketches, Page 962

G. BOCK, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Muscoda, was born in 1830 in Germany; son of 
Sebastian and Magtelina Bock; came to the United States in 1852; located in 
Pennsylvania for one year; then removed to Illinois, remaining but a short time, 
after which he came to Grant Co. Wis., in 1855. He married, in 1860, Christena 
Ramma, daughter of Mickle and Catharine Ramma, by whom he has had eleven 
children - Joseph V., Lina, Mary N., Catharina, Elizabeth, John, Mattilda, Anna, 
Emmie, Ida and Otto. He has been School Director three terms, and Road Overseer 
one term. In politics, he is a Democrat, and in religion, a Roman Catholic. He 
owns 200 acres of land.