Peter JONET; Biographical Sketch; Luxemburg Township, Kewaynee County, Wisconsin

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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.