Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Shmitt, Peter 1826 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    PETER SHMITT, farmer, Sec. 7; P. 0. Kenosha; born July 22, 1826, in Prussia;
came to America in 1840, and stopped near Chicago, occupying himself mostly as a
farmer in Cook Co., Ill., for about ten years; worked in a brewery; then came to
Kenosha and worked for about five years in the same business; bought his
Pleasant Prairie farm in the spring of 1875, and owns ninety acres and a lot of
three acres in Illinois. He raises rye, corn, flax and other cereals; also some
stock. Married Miss Cecelia Ribley, of Prussia, Nov. 5, 1845, and has nine
children-Mary, Angie, Matt, Susie, Lena, Mike, Katie, Peter and Gertie. He and
his family belong to the German Catholic Church. Mr. Shmitt helped to build the
Kenosha & Rockford R. R.

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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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