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The section is an extension of the Marriage and Family section of the site. It contains biographies and genealogical data about Waukesha County residents. The information has been compiled from a variety of sources such as: County Marriage index, church records, newspaper microfilm, other family researchers, and the "History of Waukesha County" and "Haight's 1907 Waukesha County Memoirs". It is far from a complete listing of early residents of Waukesha County. As I get more information I add it. Hopefully you can find who you are looking for. Use the site search to locate all the pages that contain your surname.
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JOHN GEORGE KESTELL
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John George Kestell was born 24 August 1853, the son of Johann Baptist Kastel and Ursula Kreppel/Krebbel/Krippel, in the town of Germantown, Washington County, Wi. He married , Jane Daily, a neighbor girl, about 1880. She died giving birth to their first born son on 12 March, 1881. Jane was born December 20, 1840 at Rochester, New York, the daughter of John and Nancy Daily. She was 40 years old when she died. She was 13 years older then John George. She is buried on Nelson's burial ground, Waukesha, Co.
The 26th of August 1880, John Kastell bought the farm from his mother for $1,000. with the personal. In the 1870 census, the property was valued as follows: 20 acres improved land, 20 acres woods valued at $1500. and $50. worth of machinery: 2 milking cows, 2 working oxen, 5 swine, $100. all livestock; 80 bushels wheat, 20 bushels rye, 10 bushels oats, 10 lbs. wool, 25 bushels peas and beans, 60 bushels Irish potatoes. $10.00 orchard products, 300 lbs. butter, 8 tons hay, $55.00 worth of animals slaughtered; $650.00 estimated value of all farm products. There was also a plow, a spring tooth, and a drag included in the machinery.
On October 3, 1881, there was a land entry between Nancy Daily and John G. Kestell (as he spells his name now) . According to the indenture, Jane, John George's wife, had bought the farm a few years earlier from her mother, but I guess the papers were not made at the time. Jane had died in March and the estate was being settled. Before the death of Johann Baptist Kastel, John George went by the name of 'George", because of the confusion with his father's name. He kept using the name of 'George until the time of his death, even though he had a brother by the name of George.
Eight months after Jane died, John George Kestell married Magdalena Breckheimer, daughter of Ambrose Breckheimer and Anna Maria Koblenz in St. Francis Church in Milwaukee. They were married by Rev. P. Ignatius Ullrich on 15 Nov. 1881. Lena Breckheimer was born 28 June 1855, in the town of Rhine, Sheboygan County. She went to Milwaukee to find work as a young girl and that is when she met John George. Magdalena died of Broncho pneumonia following a case of the measles, on the 14 Sept. 1902. She is buried on St. George's Catholic Cemetery in the town of Rhine - just one half mile north from the family homestead.
On the 19th Jan. 1882, John George sold the homestead farm to John Conrath Wiseckel with the personal. He must have gotten the farm back, as on the 15 Oct. 1886, GEORGE John Kestell and wife Magdalena sold the farm to John Tiry (George Kestell was married to Ferdinanda Tiry), and on the same day, 15 Oct. 1886, John Tiry sold the homestead farm to Charles Dallmann of Milwaukee County. Charles Dallmann was married to Christina Kaestel, a sister of John George's.
John George Kestell and his wife Magdalena and family of seven children, lived on the "Daily" farm in Germantown until 9 June 1894, when they bought the farm in the town of Rhine, Sheboygan County, from Ambrose Breckheimer and his wife Anna Maria. The Breckheimers were the parents of Magdalena Kestell. They paid 3500.00 for 110 acres of land and all the buildings. Magdalena and smaller children came to Elkhart Lake by train, and the household furniture was moved up by wagons and teams. John G. Kestell III was ten years old at the time. The Breckheimers moved to a house in Elkhart Lake to retire. Ambrose lived until 2 July 1901, and Anna Maria outlived her daughter by a good many years and passed away 16 Jan. 1917.
A few years before John George's death, he was picking apples in the orchard. He used a chair that had posts on the back lean, to climb up into the tree. He slipped and fell from the tree and hit the chair on one of the posts and injured his intestines. He lived for several years, but he was not in good health. He died 31 Jan. 1905. He is buried beside his wife on St. George's Cemetery in the town of Rhine, just one half mile north of the farm
Anna and John were the only ones who were over 21 years of age when their father and mother were both dead. Anna had just married the September before her father's death. Francis Williams was appointed guardian of Julius, Charles, Arthur, Margaret and Catherine. Katie was 10 years of age when her mother died and just 13 when her father died. She was the youngest in the family. John had just signed papers with his father on his 21st birthday to take over running of the farm. When Julius was 21, he went into partnership with John. The 5th of October 1905, John George III bought 26 acres from Julia Feldmann and her husband John for $1000.00. Now the farm was 136 acres total. John George III also bought the personal property from his father before his death. He borrowed the money from his grandmother Breckheimer.
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John T. KIEBEL
Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) June 04, 1897; pg. 2; col B
John T. Kiebel, an employee of the Imperial Spring Brewing company, was married to Miss Emma M. Cox at her home in Chicago. They will reside here.
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MARY R. BURGESS-KLINE
Source: A Complete Record of the John Olin Family, by C.C. Olin, Historian, 1893; Baker-Randolph Co. Printers, Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary R. Burgess-Kline was born in Mukwonago, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, November 24, 1844. The mother Louise M. Olin, died in 1847 when she was three years old. In 1848 her father, Wm. W. Burgess, married Mary E. Botsford, of Trenton, Dodge county, Wisconsin. Mary lived with her parents and attended the public schools until she was about seventeen years of age, then finished aspupil by taking three terms of school work at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. She was then abble to teach, which vocation she followed until her marriage, in 1866, to Samuel S. Kline, of Mukwonago, Wisconsin, soon after which event they moved to Pierce county,, Wisconsin, where Mr. Kline had bought land......
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AUGUST R. KLUG
Source: Submitted by a researcher, see contributors page
Notes for AUGUST R. KLUG:
August Klug served as pastor at the following churchs:
1 Crown Point, IN 1904 - 1908
2 St. John's Evangelical Church, Peotone, IL 1908 - 1923
3 Trinity Church, Brookfield, WI 1923 - 1930
4 St. Michael's Church, West Chicago, IL 1930 - 1953
More About AUGUST R. KLUG:
Burial: Sunnyside Cemetary, Lannon, WI
Confirmation: 1894, Menomonee Falls, WI
Ordination: June 1904, Christian Ministry of Evangelical Synod of NA
Retirement: June 01, 1953, Bensenville, IL
More About WILHEMINA "MINNIE" DUMMER:
Burial: Sunnyside Cemetary, Lannon, WI
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DAVID KYLE
David Kyle, deceased, who for many years was one of the most prominent residents of the West Bloomfield township, Oakland County, was engaged in farming on the old Kyle homestead in section 26, where Mrs. Kyle now readies. He was born upon this farm April 25, 1834, and died there February 11. 1890.
David Kyle was a son of David and Jane (Jagger) Kyle, who were pioneers of this county. David Kyle, Sr., was born in the north of Ireland, December 28, 1793, and in 1814 came to America, locating in West Bloomfield township, Oakland County, Michigan. In June, 1831, he settled upon the farm in section 26, which is now owned by our subject's widow. He married Jane Jagger, of Orange County, New York, and they became the parents of children, seven of whom grew to maturity as follows: Sarah J., who first married Charles H. Murray, and after his death on August 24, 1883, married Pickering Nicholson, of Detroit; James H., born January 29, 1833, who died in September, 1864, leaving one son--Don; Robert and David (twins), who lived almost the same age, Robert dying in March, 1891, and about one year after his brother; William John, born April 17. 1837, who died January 20, 1857; Mary A., born May 20, 1840, who married Thomas Brown, lives in Ionia County, Michigan, also has three children-Charles, Edward and Minnie; and Charles, born September 27, 1843, who died June 10, 1892.
David Kyle, subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of West Bloomfield township, and in his boyhood worked upon the homestead farm. After his father's death he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the home farm and carried on farming until his death.
David Kyle was joined in marriage with Jennie Smart, a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Clegg) Smart, both natives of Newburg, Yorkshire, England. Her father was born September 15, 1809, and was married to Elizabeth Clegg in 1832. In 1834 they came to America and in 1835 located in Waukesha township, Wisconsin. In 1836 Mr. Smart took up government land at the time when there were few white settlers and the Pottawattamie Indians were threatening trouble. Gen. Winfield Scott being stationed in the locality to protect the residents. Mrs. Smart did the mending for this distinguished soldier. Mr. SMart was the earliest settler in Waukesha township, and Jennie Smart, now MRs. Kyle, was the first white child born in this section. The Smart home was thronged with Indians on the occasion of Mrs. Kyle's birth, their curiosity being excited to see a white baby, and the chief of the Pottawattamies, with some of his tribe brought $1,500 which he offered to MR. Smart for the purchase of the child. Mrs. Jennie S. Kyle was born September 21, 1836, in the little log house which her father first built. In 1840 he built the first frame house erected on the prairie, and throughout his life was one of the most progressive spirits of this section. Mrs. Kyle is one of six children, form of whom are living, namely; Jennie; Benjamin, born in 1838, who lives on the old home farm; Mary, born in 1840, who lives four miles from the old home farm; and Maria A., born in 1856, who married Robert Boyd, and is now living in Waukesha, the noted Fountain HOtel, with accommodations for 800 guests, being built on the property.
Mrs. Jennie Kyle was educated at the Milwaukee Institute and in 1853 was married to Mr. Kyle, by whom she had one son, George H. The latter was born July 25, 1860, and married Susan Newton, a daughter of Loomis and Sarah Newton, of Pontiac, Michigan. George H. Kyle and his wife have two children, Grace and Lola. Mrs Jennie S. Kyle was christened in the Protestant Episcopal Church but became a member of the Methodist Church, to which her husband's family belonged.
Source: Biographical Record; Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Oakland County Michigan; Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.
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