Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Peter Schmidt

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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. 1163

Peter Schmidt, firm of Schmidt Bros., 211 and 213 Main street,
manufacturers of trunks, valises, traveling-bags, etc.; established in
1868, employ seventy-three men annually, and do about a $90,000 business
annually; they used 800,000 feet of lumber in 1880; he was born in Prussia,
Jan. 16, 1842; emigrated to America in June, 1854, and located in
Washington Co., Wis., and engaged in farming until 1861, when he enlisted
in Co. D, 6th W.V.I., April 27th of that year, and after the battle of
Antietam, he was transferred to Battery B, 4th Artillery; served until June
27, 1865, and was mustered out at Madison, Wis.; he also engaged in the
battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Mine Run, Bull Run,
Gettysburg, Atlanta, Macon and Savannah; he kept hotel in Racine until
1866, then he, with his brother, Henry Schmidt, engaged in the above
business at Racine, until October, 1868, and moved to Oshkosh as above
noted; he was married in Oshkosh in 1870, to Miss Catharine Gores; she was
born in Prussia.