BIOGRAPHIES:  John SCHNELL, 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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John Schnell (deceased) was born at Ehring, Wurtemburg, Germany, about
1822, and died at Pepin, July 3, 1879.  He was a son of Michael
Schnell.  In 1844 he came to New York city and began to learn the
carpenter's trade, thence went to Canada and soon after to La Crosse,
Wis., where he worked in a brewery one year.  In 1856 he went to
Durand, made a "claim" and burned a lime-kiln for several seasons, and
subsequently was employed in a chair factory.  He came to Pepin
township in 1868 and homesteaded a farm on section three, township
twenty-three, range fourteen, where he resided until his death, owning
at that time 240 acres of land.  He also burned a lime-kiln there for
several years.  August 31, 1858, Mr. Schnell married Miss Victoria,
daughter of John and Mary Smith.  John Smith with four companions came
from Haslach, Baden, to American in 1846, and they were heard from but
once after their arrival at Reading, Pa.  Mrs. Schnell was born near
Haslach, March 19, 1834.  She bore her husband nine children:  Alonzo,
born May 321, 1859; Mary, March 11, 1861, died September 5, 1861; Louis
Christian, August 16, 1862; Frank H., September 25, 1865; Wilhelm A.,
March 17, 1867; Anna C., September 17, 1869; John J., April 15, 1872;
Mary, February 25, 1874; Rosa (Mrs. F. Fox), February 28, 1879.  Mr.
Schnell was a democrat in politics and a member of the Lutheran church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 732.


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