JACOB KARRMANN, manufacturer and dealer in boots and shoes, Platteville; was born in Prussia in 1841; he learned his trade in the old country, and came to America in 1866; he lived one year in Pottsville, Penn., and a few months in Galena, Ill., and has been in Platteville since 1867. In 1868, he married Miss Sophia Kabele, and has seven children - Jacob, Peter, George, Mary Elizabeth, Ann Rena, Magdalena Catharine and Bertha Wilhelmina.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.