Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Karpen, Henry 1839 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    HENRY KARPEN, saloon; born in Germany in 1839; came to Wisconsin Aug. 7,
1856, locating at Brighton, where he engaged in farming for twenty years; then
moved to Union Grove, opening a saloon and billiard hall; remained two years,
when he came to Kenosha and went into the saloon business, on Market street, his
present location. Married, in 1860, Miss Elizabeth Weiller, a native of Germany;
they have had seven children, three boys and four girls. In 1869, he was elected
Assessor and Justice of the Peace in Brighton for two years. The family are
members of the Catholic Church; Democrat.

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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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