John Harms 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 Smelser, Biographical Sketches, Page 1016 

JOHN HARMS, Sec. 2; P. 0. Platteville; born in Hanover, Germany, in 1812; came 
to America in 1838 and settled on this farm. Mr. Harms has held quite important 
public offices; was elected to the Legislature in 1863, and has been a member of 
the Town Board a number of years.