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

    AUGUST SCHROEDER, harness-maker; born in 1831, in Germany; came to Wisconsin
in 1854, locating at Kenosha, where he worked for Smith & Lines, manufacturing
harness for eight years. In 1862, he enlisted in the 26th W. V. I., Co. C, at
Kenosha, and joined the regiment at Milwaukee; was present at the battles of
Mission Ridge and Gettysburg; was wounded June 22, 1864, near Kenesaw Mountain,
in Georgia, when he was sent to Nashville; remained eleven weeks in hospital;
thence to the hospital in Milwaukee for eight weeks. In June, 1865, was mustered
out; returned to Kenosha and formed partnership with L. Smith, in the harness
business. Smith sold out to G. Limpert and the firm changed to Schroeder &
Limpert. Spring of 1870, he sold out and went to Iowa; returned in 1872; in
1873, formed partnership with Joseph Dunnebacke, which was continued till spring
of 1877, when he bought Dunnebacke out and continued alone. Married, in 1854,
Miss Dora Janes, a native of Germany; they have had eight children, five boys
and three girls; one boy died in 1873. Was Alderman of the Second Ward. Republican.

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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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