Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Schmitt, John 1832 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOHN SCHMITT, grocer; born in 1832 in Prussia; came to Wisconsin in 1852,
locating at Kenosha, where he remained a short time and then went to Indiana,
remaining two years, when he returned to Kenosha, and worked as carpenter and
wagon-maker for four years; in 1858, started in business for himself, opening a
grocery and saloon. January, 1860, married Miss Margaret Barnich, a native of
Germany. They have had ten children, eight sons and two daughters; five now
living. 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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