Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Hess, Martin 1833 - 
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MARTIN HESS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. St. Joseph; was born in Germany in 1833; 
emigrated to the United States in 1854, stopping six months in New York, after 
which, he went to Detroit, Mich., where he engaged in farming for three years, 
when he came to La Crosse and worked at brick-making for three years, during 
which time he located part of his farm, which contains 240 acres. In 1859, he 
was married to Margaret Menzenburger, born in Germany in 1839, and soon moved 
on his farm. They have had eleven children, eight of whom are living - 
Christina, Earnest, Mary, Emma, Louisa, George, Philip and Margaret. Mr. Hess 
is a Democrat, and has been Town Treasurer three terms, Assessor, one term, 
and Chairman one term. Religion, Catholic.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 861.

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