Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....De Diemar, Louis Napoleon 1840 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 27, 2008, 4:31 am Author: Western Historical Society (1879) LOUIS NAPOLEON de DIEMAR, Lighthouse-Keeper; born in Toronto, Canada, Jan. 27, 1840; came to Wisconsin, December, 1847, locating at Somers; June 29,1872, came to Kenosha and was appointed principal Lighthouse-Keeper; Sept. 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company £, 1st Wis. V.I. at Kenosha, and joined the regiment at Milwaukee; was mustered out October 8, re-enlisted and was present at the battle of Lamb's Ferry, Ala.: wounded at Perrysville Oct. 8, 1862, by a minie ball; mustered out Nov. 1, 1862, having seen about fourteen months' service. Married Oct. 14, 1873, Miss Mary Eliia Timme, a native of Kenosha Co., Wis.; they have had four children, three boys and one girl. In 1864, was appointed Collector of Somers for two years; Special Collector Bounty Tax 1872-73; was also Deputy Sheriff of Kenosha County; members Methodist Episcopal Church. Additional Comments: Extracted from: THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC., ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN, MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY. MDCCCLXXIX. (1879) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/kenosha/bios/dediemar488nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb