Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Simmons, Z. G. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    Z. G. SIMMONS, President of the Northwestern Telegraph Company; a capitalist
prominently identified with material interests, not only in Kenosha, but
throughout the Northwest; came to Kenosha in 1843. After a brief residence in
that settlement, he continued his journey in company with Mr. S., to Lake Co.,
Ill., when the latter established himself on a farm, and for a number of years
carried on farming. In 1850, the subject of this sketch returned to Kenosha,
where he became identified with financial and commercial enterprises, and was
uniformly successful in all his venture. The Northwestern Telegraph Company was
at that date in its infancy, and had not been attended with that success which
its project felt had been deserved. The line extended from Milwaukee to Madison,
and liable at any time to failure realizing the fullest complement of
expectations anticipated. At this time, Mr. Simmons became connected with the
company, and the high regard in which its stock is held by capitalists to-day,
is an indication of the influence he has exercised in conquering prospective
defeat and realizing certain profit out promised loss.

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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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