Joseph Weber Biography - Grant County Wisconsin ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ***************************************************************************** Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net History of Grant County Wisconsin Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881 Town of Jamestown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1034 JOSEPH WEBER, Jamestown; born in Prussia May 6,1819; emigrated here in 1846; settled in Galena for six years, and then removed to Jamestown, where he settled permanently; he engaged in mining, and afterward began farming; probable value of farm, $5,000. Politics, Democratic; is a Catholic. Married Catharine Kulle, who was born in Prussia April 2, 1821; was married in Prussia in 1843; they have eight children — Martha, born Sept. 29, 1843; Anton, July 13, 1845; Joseph, Sept. 20, 1847; Henry, Jan. 14, 1850; Fuldine, March 17, 1851; Joecheim, Nov. 12, 1854; Ceewille, Feb. 14, 1859; Catharine, May 16, 1861.