Bio: Schmidt, G. Fred (History - 1848)

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Surnames: SCHMIDT COLBERT

----Source: Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin; Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1891.

G. Fred Schmidt (1848)
 

G. Fred Schmidt, a farmer of section 27, Mayville Township, was born in Germany, March 14, 1848, the son of August Schmidt, deceased. The father brought his family to the United States in 1853, settling in the town of Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, in the dense woods, among the Indians and wild animals. He cleared a good farm, but in 1877 removed to Winnebago County, where he died the next year. The parents had six children: Fred, Christian, William, August, Adolfine and Frederica. All live in Clark County, except Christian, who resides in Sheboygan City.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and received a common-school education. He came to this county in 1880, and settled on his present farm of eighty acres, on the northeast corner of section 27, and has since cleared twenty-eight acres. He has been a member of the Side Board two years, and is now chairman of the same. He is a member of the Evangelical Association at Dorchester. Mr. Schmidt was married December 23, 1872, to Ida Colberg, a daughter of Christian Colberg, of Sheboygan County. Of their six children four survive: William, Charles, Bertha and Elsie.

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