BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew ROHRSHEIB, East Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Andrew Rohrsheib, farmer, P. O. East Pepin, was born in Eppelheim,
Baden, Germany, February 23, 1852.  He lived with his parents and
attended common school until fourteen years of age, when he entered a
drawing school in Germany, and also learned the mason trade.  October
18, 1869, he immigrated to this country and landed in New York city
November 11, 1869.  He came thence to Albany township, Pepin county,
and homesteaded four forties of land and purchased three forties, which
gave him a farm of 280 acres, on which he now resides.  He now has
forty-five acres under a high state of cultivation, and has built him a
good farm residence, barns and out-buildings.  October 12, 1873, he
married Miss Christina Machmeier, who was born April 2, 1853, in
Milwaukee, Wis., a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Machmeier.  This
union has been blessed with the following children:  George, born April
26, 1874; Elizabeth, July 13, 1875; Frank, September 17, 1877, and died
November 14, 1882; Otto, July 23, 1881; Lena, November 21, 1883;
Walter, June 24, 1885; Frank, October 12, 1888; Curtis, July 30, 1890. 
Mr. Rohrsheib is a republican, and has held the office of town clerk
from 1882 until the present time (1891).  In 1889 he received the
appointment of clerk of the committee of state affairs, and has been
constable for nine years.  He belongs to the Lutheran church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 916.


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