Peter Nebel 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 1014

PETER NEBEL, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Platteville; was born in 1826, at 
Wurttemberg, Germany lived with his parents until 16 years of age, going to 
school the greater portion of the time; he then followed laboring for eleven 
years; came to the United States in 1853, locating in Allegheny Co., Penn., for 
nine months, arriving in Stephenson Co., Ill., in 1854, where he followed 
renting and tilling the soil for twelve years, when he returned to Allegheny 
Co., Penn., and remained there for two years; then moved to Wisconsin, locating 
in La Fayette Co., near the Platte Mound, for four years; then to Ellenboro, 
Grant Co., where he has lived for nine years.  Was married, in 1854, to 
Friederika Bare, a daughter of Godlip and Mary Bare; had three children, since 
deceased, Lewis F., John G., both living with their parents.  Is a member of the 
Evangelical Methodist Church.