Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Huck, Mathias 1831 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    MATHIAS HUCK, boot and shoe merchant; born March 4, 1831, in Alsace, France,
came to America in 1849, and went first to Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked at
his trade; in the fall of 1849 went to Batavia, N. Y.; in March, 1852, went to
Pittsburgh, Penn.; then to Janesville, Ohio, in May, 1852. and came to Kenosha,
Wis., in June of the same year; established himself in business in September,
1859, but was burnt out in 1860, when he lost everything, and again, in April of
the same year opened his present store, and his business has constantly
increased until it has assumed its present liberal proportions. Miss Mary Annie
Tetart, whom he married March 11, 1854, in  Kenosha, was born Aug. 26, 1847, in
New Jersey; they have nine children-Josephine, born Nov. 28, 1854; George J.,
Oct. 30 1856; Mathias J., Oct. 30, 1860; Oscar P., Jan. 25, 1862; Francis, Dec.
11, 1864; Eugene, Oct, 30, 1867; Albert, April 1, 1869; Ida, July 30, 1877;
Angeline, Dec. 3, 1878. Mr. Huck was Alderman in 1860, and is now President of
St. George's Benevolent Society, and Treasurer of St. George's Catholic Church,
of which he and his family are members.

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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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