Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Geritt, Thomas 1826 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    THOMAS GERITT, farmer; born March 25, 1826, in Coblentz, Prussia, where he
learned the business of millwright; was a farmer, and served in the army two and
one-half years; he came to America in 1852, and settled at Kenosha, where he
followed various trades; in 1855-56, went to the Rocky Mountains, and to Kansas
for six months, then returned to Kenosha; in the fall of 1878, went to Nebraska
and purchased some land. Married Miss Magrada Ward, of Londonderry, Ireland,
June 22, 1856; they have an adopted child, named Elizabeth Kelly, born March 1,
1853. Mr. G. has held the following offices: Assessor of Pleasant Prairie for
1872-73; Street Commissioner of Kenosha City for 1876-77, and School Clerk of
Pleasant Prairie, District No. 7, for three years. He and his family are members
of St. Mark's Catholic Church.

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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)


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