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Ozaukee County Biographies
The biographical sketches are taken from the book, "History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin", published by Western Historical Co., 1881. These links will take you to the complete biographies of the citizens in each of the towns. The abbreviations used are:
Co Company or county | W.V.I. Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry |
W.V.A. Wisconsin Volunteer Artillary | P.O. Post Office |
W.V.C. Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry | st street |
Rev. Fr. William Joseph Frantz | Peter Jones |
Hugo Boclo A.M. Boehme August Bohrtz John F. Bruss C.F. Burgwardt William H. Fitzgerald P.K. Gannon Charles Gottschalk Thomas Halpin Dr. T.H. Hartwig |
Henry Hentschel J.F. Hilgen Hon. F.W. Horn F. Jaucke L.E. Jochem J.W. Johann Charles Lau C.W. Lehmann Gustus Podoll |
John Roth F.G. Schuette William Vogenitz John Weber Conrad Wiesler Charles Wilke J.P. Wirth D. Wittenberg E.G. Wurthmann |
Christian Beger Herman Beger Nicolas Cigrand Charles F. Cooley W.W. Cooley John Fintzen |
Henry Grotelueschen John B. Kendall Julius H. Klessig R. Maercklein Charles E. Meyer John J. Race |
F.J.C. Remer John B. Schauble Dr. J.H. Voje Frank J. Weber C.W. Witt |
John Fitzgerald G.C. Fleischmann F.L. Harms John Lausen |
William Opitz William Roebken, Jr. H. Schmidt |
John Simon John B. Simon Joseph Spehn |
Henry Haas Aug. Hodann William F. Jahn Adam Jochem S.S. Leonard |
Hugh McElroy John W. Milbrath John Reynolds H. Schellenberg C.G. Schneider |
Charles C. Seyfert Louis C. Wagner A. Zaun Adolph Zimmermann Francis Zimmermann |
William Ahlhauser J.N. Baer Hon. John R. Bohan E.B. Bolens Hon. C.E. Chamberlin H.L. Coe Frank Delles Philip Eckel Judge Leopold Eghart George Warren Foster John Gilson James O'Gorman James Hedding John Kaiser R.C. Kann |
N. Kemp John Kessler Ulrich Landolt William H. Landolt S.C. Larson Nicholas Martin James McCarthy August Meyer Hon. Charles G. Meyer Charles A. Mueller John Neuens F.H.J. Obladen John Olinger William A. Pors N. Poull |
M.G. Ruppert Maj. John C. Schroeling Henry B. Schwin Jacob Schumacher LaFayette Towsley Hon. Eugene S. Turner James W. Vail Peter Watry Theo. J. Werle John P. Weyker Michael Weyker Rev. Fr. Henry Wilmes N. Young A. Zastrow Walter Zastrow |
Anthony Ahlhauser Joseph Albrecht |
Christopher Klumb August Koenig |
Charles Stopper Louis C. Wambold |
EARLY SETTLERS
Prominent among the early settlers of 1836-37 was
John Weston, the first Postmaster in the county, located near where the village of
Thiensville now stands; Timothy Wooden, the first settler of Grafton; William Worth,
the first man to donate land for public school purposes; Daniel Strickland, the pioneer
School Commissioner; Joseph Gardinier, who had the contract for cutting the Green
Bay road; Peter Turck, the first to preach the doctrine of immersion; Isaac Bigelow,
whose wife, Jane, gave birth to the first white child born in the county; Ephraim
Woodworth, who commenced to keep bachelor's hall in 1837, in a little log shanty,
and has since erected a small frame building, where he still lives a happy bachelor,
upon the quarter-section he then located; Asa Jackson, the first white settler in
the town of Saukville; Thomas Day, an exemplary Englishman, who introduced Sunday;
and James W. Woodworth, who wrote a book entitled
"My Path, and the Way the Lord Led Me," and was the first white man married
in the county. The earliest German settlers arrived in 1839. Adolph Zimmerman and
his brother-in-law, William F. Opitz, came in the month of August of that year, and
settled in the town of Mequon. William Voegnitz, with a company of Lutherans, came
in October 31, 1839. The Bonniwells, an aged mother with six sons and one daughter,
came into the county in 1839. Several of the sons had families, and the first schoolhouse
was erected in their settlement within one year after their arrival. E.H. Jansen,
Andrew Geidel and John Hansen made a clearing the same year. During the fall of 1839,
the Freistadt Colony, under the leadership of Pastor Krause, aided by Capt. Von Rober,
came and took up nearly all the west part of Mequon Township, and soon established
a Lutheran Evangelical Church, the first religious organization in the county. Frederick
V. Horn settled in Mequon in 1841. He was the first Justice of the Peace, and built
the first store. He has been identified with the county history to the present time.
Prominent among those who came a few years later were Col. William Teal, Harvey J.
Turner, George W. Daniels, C.E. Chamberlain, I.T. Brown, Frederick Hilgen, William
Schroeder, G.W. Foster, Hiram King, Orman Coe, O.A. Watrous, Hiram Johnson, William
Payne and others, of whom sketches will be found in the history of old Washington
County, in connection with a full description of the settlement made in Port Washington
in 1835, under the name of Wisconsin City. The old settlers annually meet to renew
friendships and recount the trials and triumphs of pioneer life in Wisconsin.
THE OLD SETTLERS CLUB
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Yr. of |
Yr. of |
Leopold Eghart | 1849 | 1824 |
Conrad Horneffer* | 1846 | 1815 |
William Vogenitz | 1839 | 1820 |
Theodore Kliefoth | 1854 | 1813 |
C.E. Chamberlin | 1843 | 1818 |
Johnson W. Ingersoll* | 1847 | 1818 |
Fred W. Horn | 1841 | 1815 |
Alex. M. Alling | 1852 | 1807 |
William F. Opitz | 1839 | 1816 |
Dr. Theodore Harting | 1847 | 1820 |
Hugo Boclo | 1846 | 1827 |
J. A. Schtelz* | 1849 | 1828 |
Ed H. Janssen* | 1840 | 1815 |
Anthony Ahlhauser | 1845 | 1827 |
Andreas Bodendorfer | 1847 | 1828 |
Adolph Heidkamp* | 1854 | 1821 |
William A. Pors | 1849 | 1827 |
John Gengler | 1846 | 1846 |
Joseph Malherbe | 1854 | 1846 |
John C. Schroeling | 1853 | 1816 |
Charles G. Meyer | 1843 | 1827 |
J. Briggs Ingersoll* | 1847 | 1816 |
Adolph Zimmerman | 1839 | 1814 |
John C. Corrigan | 1853 | 1824 |
Shepherd E. Moore | 1844 | 1827 |
Patrick Halpin | 1843 | 1813 |
Rufus Godfrey | 1847 | 1820 |
Ernst Hilgen | 1847 | 1831 |
August Meyer | 1847 | 1840 |
Eugene S. Turner | 1846 | 1824 |
Ulrich Landolt | 1848 | 1822 |
George C. Daniels* | 1844 | 1800 |
Peter Spehn | 1845 | 1815 |
George W. Foster | 1845 | 1817 |
Hervey L. Coe | 1844 | 1836 |
John Neuens | 1852 | 1831 |
John Delles | 1846 | 1817 |
John J. Race | 1846 | 1840 |
John R. Bohan | 1846 | 1824 |
William Boxhorn* | 1846 | 1819 |
Anthony Bell | 1847 | 1824 |
Hugh McElroy | 1842 | 1812 |
Nicholas Watry | 1845 | 1812 |
Nicholas Langers | 1846 | 1818 |
Norman S. Turner | 1852 | 1829 |
Nicholas Straus | ---- | 1847 |
Fred C. Race | 1846 | 1836 |
Orman Coe* | 1846 | 1799 |
John Mueller | 1846 | 1829 |
Michael G. Ruppert | 1849 | 1848 |
Charles F. Corley | 1850 | 1836 |
Edward O'Neile | 1854 | 1826 |
Lyman Morgan | 1847 | 1814 |
Boltward Patch | 1847 | 1819 |
Nicholas Blimer | 1851 | 1815 |
William H. Landelt | 1848 | 1844 |
Joseph Albrecht | 1855 | 1831 |
Fred Stenerwald* | 1846 | 1838 |
La Fayette Towsley | 1847 | 1824 |
Niels Jacobson | 1854 | 1820 |
William Carbys | 1855 | 1826 |
Charles Ferge | 1855 | 1826 |
Theobold Rulby | 1854 | 1830 |
Ed R. Blake | 1848 | 1844 |
James W. Vail | 1848 | 1821 |
August Hodan | 1845 | 1842 |
Julius W. Sizer | 1846 | 1823 |
Charles Beger* | 1846 | 1822 |
John B. Peffer | 1854 | 1825 |
Gottlieb Haas | 1846 | 1825 |
H.W. Riemenschneider | 1848 | 1832 |
Wilson F. Stewart | ---- | 1816 |
Giles B. Possen | ---- | 1833 |
John Simon | 1842 | 1819 |
Andrew Kreutzer | 1840 | 1836 |
Mrs. John M. Bostwick | 1848 | 1842 |
Henry B. Schwin | 1845 | 1844 |
Mrs. O.P. Melin | 1847 | 1838 |
William Beger | 1846 | 1820 |
August Koenig | 1854 | 1828 |
John P. Weyker | 1845 | 1836 |
Bartholomew Harrington | 1843 | 1829 |
Henry Peterman | 1863 | 1833 |
* names marked thus are deceased.
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