Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Engel, William 1834 - 
************************************************
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, 4:36 am

Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    WILLIAM ENGEL, of the firm of Engel & Co., butchers; born in Germany April
23, 1834; came to Wisconsin in 1857, locating at Kenosha, where he worked for
his brother, Jacob Engel, for one year, when he went to St. Louis and thence to
Racine, remaining one year; in 1860, he returned to Kenosha, where he commenced
dealing in cattle; in 1862, formed a partnership with his brother, and opened a
meat market under the firm name of Engel & Bro.; continued for six years, when
Mr. Byerstort bought out Jacob and changed the firm name to Wm. Engel & Co.
Married, in 1862, Miss Margaret Rapps, a native of Germany; they have had one
son-Fred. Members Lutheran 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/engel492nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/

File size: 1.9 Kb