Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Lehnen, Peter 1843 - 
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PETER LEHNEN, proprietor of the centennial summer garden, corner Sixth and 
Hood streets, is a native of Luxemburg, Germany, born in 1843; son of Nicholas 
Lehnen, who died in Luxemburg Jan. 5, 1869, in his 70th year. Peter came to 
America in 1862, and settled in La Crosse Dec. 27, 1863. He enlisted in the 2d 
W. V. C., Co. H, and served till the close of the war. After the war, he 
returned to La Crosse, and was in the saloon business till the spring of 1875; 
he then rented the old La Crosse summer garden on Sixth street, ran it fifteen 
months, and then built his present place; he purchased the old garden in 
April, 1880. He made a trip to Europe in 1869, and again in 1874, remaining 
three months each time; has a saloon on Second street, between Pearl and Main, 
and also one in connection with his garden. He was married in La Crosse in 
1866, to Miss Mary Negle, and has had eight children - Charles, Eliza, Mary, 
Katie, Lena, Theresa, Frank and Annie (twins); all living but Charles and 
Frank.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 771.

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