BIOGRAPHIES:  Fred. JAHNKE, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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FRED. JAHNKE, furniture dealer and manufacturer, Pepin, Wis., was born
near Hamburg, Germany, March 22, 1829. He is a son of Mary and John
Jahnke. He came to the United States in 1849, and worked at his trade
in New York, Iowa, and Illinois, before he came to Pepin, Wis., in
1856. He enlisted in Co. A, 6th Wis., in January, 1865; was wounded at
Hatch's Run, Feb. 6, 1865, in the foot, and was mustered out at the
close of the war. He was married, Oct. 22, 1856, to Miss Mary Pfaff, of
Pepin, Wis. They have six children-August, Frank, Louis, Matilda,
Amelia, and Otto. He has been Constable two terms, and is now a
memberof the Town Board.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 704


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