Philip Kolb Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and
Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901
Pages 549-550

PHILIP KOLB, a highly respected citizen of Platteville, Grant county, and an 
honored veteran of the Civil war, was born in Hessen-Darmstadt Germany, in 1827, 
and came to America with his parents, John and Amelia (Junge) Kolb, the family 
locating in Mercer county, Penn. in which State the father died in 1849.  The 
mother's death occurred in Platteville, Wis.  In their family were six sons and 
three daughters, of whom are named Elizabeth; Philip; Henry, who died en route 
to California, in 1850; Jacob, a resident of St. Paul, Minn.; William, of 
Platteville; John, also a resident of Platteville, who was in the Union army 
during the Rebellion; George, of Vermilion, S. Dak.; and Mrs. Frances Elgar, of 
Platteville.

Philip Kolb began his education in the schools of his native land, and during 
the residence of the family in Mercer county, Penn., he attended school to some 
extent.  In 1850, at the age of twenty-three years, he came to Platteville, 
Wis., where he at first worked on a farm, and later engaged in carpentering.  In 
that city he was married, in 1853, to Miss Barbara Leibert, a native of Bavaria, 
Germany, and a daughter of Chrisman and Mary (Samson) Leibert, who were also 
born in that kingdom, and on coming to America, in 1856, located at Galena, Ill.  
There the family lived on a farm for some time, and then moved to Hazel Green, 
Grant Co., Wis., where Mr. Leibert died in 1869, his wife in 1868.  Their 
children were Andrew, a resident of Nebraska; Mary, deceased; Amelia; Mary; 
Margaret; Nicholas; Frederick; Eva, Mrs. Oettiker; and Barbara, Mrs. Kolb. 

Mr. and Mrs. Kolb have six children, namely: (1) John makes his home in Chicago, 
III.  (2) Joseph, a resident of Lewistown. Ill., married a Miss Hillyer, and 
they have four children, Earl, Flo. Beulah and Anna.  (3) Flo. also of 
Lewistown, Ill., married a Miss Hoffman, and has one son, Percy.  (4) Philip is 
a teacher of music in the Platteville State Normal.  (5) Mary is the wife of 
Thomas Brooking, of Macomb, Ill., and they have four children, Melvin, Philip, 
Flo and Vivian.  (6) Christine, Mrs. Harris, of Platteville township, Grant 
county, has one child, Bertie.

At Platteville, in 1865, Mr. Kolb enlisted in Company K, 44th Wis. V. I., for 
one year or during the war, and was mustered into the United States service at 
Madison, Wis.  He was on regular duty at Nashville, and later at Paducah, Ky., 
where he was honorably discharged in September, 1865, the war having ended and 
his services being no longer needed.  He is now an honored member of W. T. Sher-
man Post, No. 66, G. A. R., and is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, 
in the welfare of which he takes an active interest.  Mr. Kolb and his wife both 
hold membership in the Congregational Church, and are among the prominent 
representative citizens of Grant county.