Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Hirshheimer, J. J. January 1839 - 
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J. J. HIRSHHEIMER, law and collection agent; was born in January, 1839, in the 
village of Lehun Steinsfeld, Kingdom of Mullemberg, Germany. After having 
taken a course in the academy at Wemsberg, he emigrated with his father, Louis 
Hirshheimer, to the United States, locating at Blairsville, Indiana Co., 
Penn.; in the fall of 1856, came West with his father and located at La 
Crosse, where he engaged with his father in the mercantile business and 
afterward in the lumber trade. In October, 1859, he was married to Amelia 
Camile Kenworthy, at St. Louis, Mo.; after the burning of his father's saw-
mill in March, 1860, he ran a small saw-mill in Brownsville, Minn., in the 
fall of 1860, left for St. Louis, Mo., but finding no opening there, removed 
to Napoleon, Ark., where he remained until the State seceded; finding his 
position as a Northern man untenable in that section of the country, he 
decided to go to the Pacific Coast; arriving in New Orleans, La., in the 
spring of 1861, he remained there awaiting for a vessel to go to Panama, but 
finding the blockade of the United States Government too strict to allow 
vessels to depart for the Gulf, and the Mississippi River having been closed 
by the Federal Government, was obliged to remain in the city of New Orleans. 
During his forced residence there, he was an eye-witness of many of the 
thrilling events of the war in that section of the South; after the capture of 
the city by the United States forces under Commodore Farragut and Gen. Butler, 
in April, 1862, he received employment under Butler's military administration 
in September, 1862, entering the service of the United States Government, and 
was soon promoted to Quartermaster in the 92d U. S. C. I.; served in that 
capacity until January, 1866, and was mustered out of the United States 
service at New Orleans. Continued to reside in the latter place until August, 
1868; during that time, he was engaged in the grocery trade, but, owing to the 
bitter feeling then prevailing in the South against Northern men, found the 
undertaking unprofitable. Was present and participated in the convention 
called by Gov. Wells, which ended in bloody riot; was in the Mechanics' 
Institute when the convention was assailed by the mob, escaping death only at 
the instance of a personal friend in the ranks of the rioters. Came to La 
Crosse in September, 1868; in October of the same year, located in Winona, 
Minn., and engaged in the dry goods business; resided in Winona until June, 
1878; then removed to La Crosse.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 761 - 762.

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