Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Shook, Jacob 1828 - 
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JACOB SHOOK, proprietor of the Revere House; is a native of Germany, born near 
the Rhine in 1828; son of Jacob Shook, who came to America in 1831, and 
settled in Sandusky City, Ohio, and died there in April, 1880. Jacob Shook, 
Jr., was married, in 1848, in Sandusky City, to Miss Mary Lazer. He came to 
Wisconsin in the spring of 1864, lived one month in La Crosse then went to 
Houston Co., Minn., where he resided five years; then in Fillmore Co. two 
years; then came back to Houston Co. and lived in Hokah till May 24, 1880, 
since which time he has been in the Revere House, where he has accommodations 
for seventy-five guests and stabling for sixteen horses; has been in the hotel 
and livery business since 1864. Has had seven children, five of whom are 
living - Lena, Elizabeth, Adam, Emma and Jacob; Mary and Libbie deceased.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 791.

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