Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Joseph Mies ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1155 Joseph Mies, yard foreman for McMillen, was born in Prussia in 1840, and came to the United States with his mother. In 1857 he came to Wisconsin and located in Oshkosh for a time, then moved to Calumet Co., where he remained about one year; then returned to Oshkosh and engaged in milling. In 1870 he went with McMillen, the first year engaged in scaling and then took charge of the yard. He was married in Oshkosh in 1869, to Miss Katharine Wagoner, of Oshkosh. They have had six children, of which there survives four- John, Jacob, Martin, Mary. Mr. Mies is a member of the St. Joseph Society.