- ANDREW WEBBER, a representative citizen, and progressive
farmer, residing on sections 16 and
- 17, Johnstown Township, is a native of Germany, born on the
13th day of March, 1818. He was reared to manhood in his native
land, but when thirty-four years of age, thinking to better his
condition by removing to America, he bade good-bye to his home
and friends and on the 22d day of February, 1852, boarded a vessel
bound for New York. The voyage was a long and tedious one, lasting
thirteen weeks, but at length he reached his destination, on
the 11th day of June. Immediately after his arrival he came to
the West, and for two months was employed in a brickyard at Milwaukee.
The succeeding two months he spent in railroading in the employ
of the North-western Railroad Company and on the 26th day of
December, 1852, he came to Rock County. His first employment
in this county was at farm labor, working for Calvin CARY, a
resident of Johnstown Township, with whom he remained three years.
In the spring of 1855 he entered the employ of Mr. BINGHAM, a
farmer of Harmony Township, with whom he worked six months, spending
the succeeding winter in the home of Mr. CARY. I the spring of
1856, he was engaged as a farm laborer by Peter VAN ORTRAND,
with whom he remained four months.
- In the fall of 1857, Mr. WEBBER was united in marriage in
Rock County, with Miss Mary
- KUISPEL, a daughter of George and Mary (SHELDER) KUISPEL.
By their union a family of twelve children have been born, ten
of whom are yet living - Ernest, born April 11, 1857, is now
living in Michigan; Mary, born March 5, 1859, is the wife of
Frank URBAN, a resident farmer of La Prairie Township; George,
born Jan. 12, 1861, died in childhood; Edward, born Nov. 16,
1862, was united in marriage Dec. 8, 1888, with Miss Bertha SCHENTZOW,
and is now operating the home farm; Julius, born July 19, 1864,
is in the employ of a lumber company in Michigan; Powell, twin
brother of Julius, died when nine months old; Frank, born March
20, 1866, is with his brother in Michigan; Caroline, born Jan.
26, 1868, is living in Janesville; John, born Sept. 23, 1869,
is at home; Emma, born Jan. 23, 1872, Charles, Jan. 23, 1875,
and Clarence, May 7, 1878, are still at home with their parents.
- After their marriage Mr. WEBBER and his young bride began
their domestic life upon a farm rented
- of Harris JANES, working the land on the shares. The following
season he operated the farm of Mr. TEETSHORN, and in 1866 engaged
in cultivating a farm which he rented of Eb. BURTON. The following
autumn he made his first purchase of land, consisting of a tract
of fifty acres, upon which he resided for six years, when he
became the owner of his present farm of 225 acres of land on
sections 16 and 17, Johnstown Township. His land is under a high
state of cultivation, and many useful and beautiful improvements
have been made, placing the farm on a par with any in the township.
He engages quite extensively in stock-raising, and has done much
toward advancing the grade of stock in Rock County. Politically,
Mr. WEBBER affiliates with the Democratic party, and for several
years has held the office of Road Supervisor. He is well known
throughout the community in which he resides, and is held in
the highest esteem by his many friends as a valued and worthy
citizen. Mr. and Mrs. WEBBER are members of the German Lutheran
Church.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 699.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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