Lacrosse-Dodge-Jefferson County WI Archives Biographies.....Gohres, William 1837 - 
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WILLIAM GOHRES, dealer in wines, liquors, cigars, tobacco, flour and feed, No. 
99 and 101 North Third street; has been in his present business since 1874, 
except the flour and feed, which he added in 1878. He has resided in North La 
Crosse since April, 1857, and followed house-building and millwright work till 
he commenced merchandising in 1874. He was born in Germany, on the River 
Rhine, in 1837; came to America in 1850, with his father, Gebhard Gohres, who 
settled in Watertown, Wis., and died there in the summer of 1873. Mr. Gohres 
was married in June, 1863, to Anna Stratman, of La Crosse, and has eight 
children - Annie, Willie, Freddie, Mary, Henry, Jacob and Joseph (twins) and 
Agnes. Mr. Gohres was Village Trustee one term before North La Crosse became a 
part of the city.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 756.

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