Kenosha County WI Biographical Sketches

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Indexes to Local Biographical Publications

"The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County Wisconsin: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement" by Frank H. Lyman Vol. 2, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1916.
	"Portrait and Biographical Album of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens... ", Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago, 1892.
"Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin containing Biographical Sketches of Business and Professional Men and Many of the Early Settled Families", The J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1906.

Biographies of Kenoshans in the
"The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties" (Chicago: 1879)

This history was a commercially produced history published by the Western Historical Co.
The Kenosha County biographies begin on page 685 and end at the end of the book, on page 739. The typing of these biographies is now completely finished!
Thank you to Jan Payne for typing the biographies for Wheatland, Salem, Randall, Brighton, Paris, Bristol, Somers and Pleasant Prairie
City of Kenosha bios scanned by Michelle Laycock - March and April, 2001

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Biographies of Kenoshans

Pioneer Women Biographies
Biographies of Kenoshans in the "Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women" compiled by Florence Chambers Dexheimer, not dated.
THIERS, Louise K.
HARVEY, Mrs. Cordelia A. Perrine
HARVEY, Cordelia A. P.

1885 Blue Book Biographies
Biographies of Kenoshans in the1885 Wisconsin Blue Book
GRAHAM, Robert
MAXWELL, Walter S.
PATTERSON, Andrew
TIMME, Ernst G.

1901 Blue Book Biographies
Biography of Kenoshan in the1901 Wisconsin Blue Book
QUARLES, Joseph Very

Biographies of Kenoshans in the 1940 Wisconsin Blue Book
GROSVENOR, Alfred C.
SIEBERT, Matt G.

Biographies of Kenoshans in the 1944 Wisconsin Blue Book
PFENNIG, Frederick S.
SHEARER, Conrad
STEVENSON, William Henry

Biography of Kenoshan in the "History of Barron Co., Wisconsin" H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., (1922)
STOW, Baron A.

Biographies of Kenoshans in the "History of Winneshiek and Allamaee Counties Iowa 1882" By W. E. Alexander, Sioux City, Iowa: Western Publishing Company,, (1882)
BURTIS, W. H.
GRATTAN, H. G.

Biography of Kenoshan in the "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans", written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918.
WILSON, Clement L.

Amherst College Biographical Record
Biographies of Kenoshans in the Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1821-1921)
BENT, Josiah ex 1847
CLEMENT, Charles ex 1841
DICKINSON, William Cowper 1848
DICKINSON, Daniel Sherman 1839
GOULD, George Henry 1850
TAYLOR, Horace Willard 1848

Biographies of Kenoshans in the "Men of Progress. Wisconsin. A selected list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life. Together with short notes on the history and character of Wisconsin."
BRADFORD, Samuel J.
FARR, William Mattocks, M. D.
QUARLES, Charles
QUARLES, Joseph V.
STEPHENSON, Isaac
WIRTH, Andrew Charles
YOUMANS, Clarion Augustine

Biography of Kenoshan in the "History of Kent County (Michigan)" Chas. C. Chapman & Co., (1881)
STONEBREAKER, Albert C.

Biography of Kenoshan in the "History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin" Western Historical Co., (1881)
KEMP, N.

Biographies of Kenoshans in the "History of Clinton Co. (Iowa)" by L. P. Allen, (1879)
McLAUGHLIN, James
QUIGLEY, M. F.

Biographies of Kenoshans in the "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904)
HALL, Philo
PEASE, Lucius
PECK, Porter Pascal
RODDLE, William Henry

Biography of Kenoshan in the "Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical", Edited by William Henry Perrin. (1891)
DODGE, Lyman (Capt.)

Biography of Kenoshan in the
"History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois", published by Goodspeed (1887)
TURNER, James B.

Biography of Kenoshan in the "History of Montana" by Joaquin Miller, (1894)
SELWAY, Robert H.

Biography of Kenoshan in the
"History of Jones County, Iowa, Past and Present", S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910
LAWRENCE, George C.

Biography of Kenoshan in the "Old Soldiers Who Have Lived in O'Brien County, IA", Compiled by Geo W. Schee and O.H. Montzheimer 1909, Primghar, IA Internet preparation by Don Harrington
VANHORN, Richard M.

Biography of Kenoshan in the "History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey
HODGE, George Albert

Biographies of Kenoshans in the "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury (1915)
DEXTER, J. C.
HILL, Leslie G., M. D.
JONES, Elbert Orlando
JONES, William J.
PECK, Porter Pascal

Biography of a Kenoshan in the "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography, including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, (1899)
HAVEN, Charles C.
HAVEN, Harris

Portrait and Biography of Edith Brown CAVANAGH '98 [1898]
Alumnae Messenger, April 1945, p. 5

Biographical Links

Wisconsin Biography Index (WIGenWeb)
Jackson Kemper - Biography

Soldiers Biographies, Volume 1
"Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record containing personal sketches of Army Men and Citizens Prominent in loyalty to the Union", Volume 1, Published in 1888
COOLEY, T. Frank