Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Lieting, Joseph I. 1838 - ************************************************ 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 28, 2008, 1:34 am Author: Western Historical Society (1879) JOSEPH I. LIETING, proprietor Garden City House; born in Germany in 1838; came Wisconsin in 1846, locating at Kenosha, where he clerked for Head, Campbell & Co., L. C. Hyde, Bros. & Weeks, and others. In 1858, went to Chicago, and engaged in the hotel business, clerking at the Continental and other houses; he then opened hotel on Kinzie and Wells streets, in Chicago. In 1874, returned to Kenosha; Oct. 18, 1875, he opened the Garden City Hotel. Married, February, 1875, Miss Josephine Camp, a native of Germany. They have had two children. Family are members of the Catholic 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/lieting529nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb