Leonard Salzgaber From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 934.

TOWN OF BOSCOBEL

LEONARD SALZGABER, farmer and dairyman, Sec. 35; P. O. Boscobel; was born in Baden, Germany, where he worked in an oil mill for five years. He came to America in 1862, landing at New York May 27; he went from New York to Canada, where he remained until October, when he came to Chicago, thence to Boscobel in 1867, and has since been engaged in farming; he owns 35 acres of good land, which he has been enabled to purchase by industry and perseverance; married in 1868 to Margaretta Rean, who is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt. They have six children - three boys and three girls.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.