BIOGRAPHIES:  Jacob FRITZ, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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JACOB FRITZ, furniture dealer, Durand. Came to Durand in 1864, and has
followed the business of making and selling furnitnre here ever since.
He was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, July 23, 1823. He learned his trade
in Bloes, France, commencing at the age of fourteen, and continuing
through a six years' apprenticeship. Afterward worked at Stuttgart,
Germany, and in 1855 came to the United States, and worked about two
years in Philadelphia; then came West, and worked at Plum City and
Menomonee, and as ship carpenter on a steamer for a while; then came to
Durand, and entered into his piesent business. He was married, May 9,
1865, to Miss Caroline Hernann, of Downsville, Dunn Co., formerly of
Baltimore, Md. Her parents came from Wurtemburg, Germany. They have
eleven children-Amelia and Louisa, twins; Frank, Caroline, William,
Louis, Albert, Rosetta, Jacob, Henry, and Martha.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 701


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