Peter JONET; Biographical Sketch; Luxemburg Township, Kewaynee County, Wisconsin ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Kathleen Race October 14, 1998 ==================================================================== Excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Kewaunee County by J H Beers Co publishers 1900 Chicago, IL. Peter Jonet, farmer of Luxemburg township, Kewanee county, was born in Belgium in the month of August, 1834, son of Frank and Frances (Polisc) Jonet, who with their family crossed the ocean to the United States during the early childhood of our subject. The vessel in which they sailed arrived at New York, and from that city they came to Kewaunee county, Wis., taking up their residence upon an eighty-acre tract in section 5, Luxemburg township, which the father purchased. The county all around was covered with a dense growth of timber, through which no roads had been cut, and their provisions had to be carried from Bay Settlement, for they had no team. An axe and a grubhoe constituted their farm implements, and they started to open up a new farm and secure a home in the West. Soon afterward Mr. Jonet sold twenty acres of his first purchase, and bought another tract or forty acres, making in all one hundred acres. By trade he was a mason, but in this country he devoted all his time and energies to agricultural pursuits. The family numbered six children, in order of birth named as follows: John, Peter, Celia, Peter, Adele and Joseph. The gentleman whose name opens this sketch always lived with his parents, and like a dutiful son gave his father the benefit of his services in his younger years. He is familiar with the arduous task of improving wild land, and also with the other hardships and difficulties incident to life on the frontier. At an early age he began work in the fields, and soon became familiar with farm work in its various departments. In 1857, when twenty-three years of age, Mr. Jonet was united in marriage with Miss Adele Delcore, and they have always lived upon the old homestead. Their union has been blessed with seven children: Felix, Theresa, Eugene, Philip, Minnie, Adele, Frank and Joseph. Mr. Jonet is a representative farmer, and successfully manages his business interests. He now has sixty acres of his one-hundred-acre farm under a high state of cultivation, and the rich and fertile fields yield to him a comfortable income in return for the care and labor he bestows upon them. In addition to the cultivation of his farm, he is also engaged in the saloon business. He votes with the Republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership with the Catholic Church.