Bio: Fricke, Henry C. (1881)
Contact: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Fricke, Simonis

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 569

HENRY C. FRICKE, Marathon City. Was born in Germany, June 28, 1835. He settled at Two Rivers in 1861, and rented a grist mill, which he ran one year. Then he worked at Mishicot one year in a grist mill, but made his home at Two Rivers. He then moved to Kossuth Township, where he remained three years. Then lived at West Bend a short time, and moved to Nashota, where he rented the grist mill for three years. He moved to Marathon City in 1870, built a grist mill, and he has improved and added to it a saw-mill, finally selling both in 1879 to his son-in-law, Mr. E. C. Herman. He was married, March 20, 1862, in Manitowoc Township, to Veronika Simonis, who was born in Germanv, Feb. 9, 1835. She came to America alone. They have three children — Augusta B., Nellie H. and Henry A.