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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

Peter WATRY, farmer, Sec. 19 ; P. O. Port Washington ; was born at sea during the voyage of his parents to this country, .June 19, 1847, and spent his younger years on a farm in the town of Belgium. In 1867, he was married to Catherine Young, and purchased his present farm of 80 acres(Port Washington), and has since been working the same. The children are John, Domnic, Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Leo Frank. Is a Democrat, and is at present Assessor, which office he has held since 1877. He is also a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Source : History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies, its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the constitution of the United States.; Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, 644  pgs.