Gottlieb Steinbrenner 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 Liberty, Biographical Sketches, Page 1031

GOTTLIEB STEINBRENNER, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Stitzer; was born in 1814, in 
Germany. He was a son of Michael and Elizabeth Steinbrenner, of Germany. He came 
to America in 1853, locating in Pennsylvania for one year and seven months; then 
to Galena, Ill., for eighteen months; then to the town of Harrison, in Grant 
Co., Wis., where he resided for nearly nine years; then to Blake’s Prairie, in 
the same county, for two years, when he moved to Liberty, where he has lived 
since. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Girock. She was a daughter of Conrad and 
Christina Girock, of Germany. They have five children - John U. and John, Mary, 
Louisa, Christina. He has 200 acres of land, valued at $3,500. In politics, he 
is a Republican, and a member of the Evangelical Church. He has been School 
Director for one term, and has lived where he now resides for sixteen years.