“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


PETER BINKERT,  miller;  P.O. Busseyville; was born in Canton 
Aargau, Switzerland, May 18, 1838.  He came to Wisconsin in 1852, and 
engaged at farming, which he followed till 1861.  He then apprenticed 
himself to Mr. Thomas Bussey, of Busseyville, to learn the business of 
flour-milling.  In May, 1865, he married Miss Wilhelmina Volkman; has 
nine children – Emma, Eliza, Augusta, Minnie, Albert, Nellie, Ida, 
Benjamin and an infant unnamed.  In the spring of 1870, he went with 
his family to Lake City, Calhoun Co., Iowa, where he purchased 140 
acres of land.  In 1877, he returned to Busseyville, and resumed the 
occupation of a miller, which he now follows.  In August, 1862, he 
enlisted in Co. D, 23d W.V.I., from which he was honorably discharge 
in November, 1864.


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