GINZKEY, Julius

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

Julius GINZKEY, saloon, Alma, was born 23 January 1845 in Austria. [Julius 
is listed in the 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, where his 
surname appears more like GUIZKEY, thirty-six years of age, thus born about 
1844, saloon keeper, born in Austria to parents also born there.] He came to 
America in 1857, and settled at Alma. He attended school at La Crosse two 
years; he then went to St. Louis [St. Louis County, Missouri], and from there 
to Quincy [Adams County], Illinois. He was afterwards in La Crosse three 
years, where he learned the trade of harness making, and in 1864 started a 
shop in this place [Alma]. He has been Postmaster two years.

Julius GINZKEY married Julia BERG [a maiden name?], a native of New York. 
They have two children, Raymond and Alma Nora. [Also enumerated in the 1880 
household of Julius GINZKEY are his wife Julia, age twenty nine, born in New 
York, by her census age about 1851, to parents also born there; and two 
children: (1) Raymond, age nine, born about 1871; and (2) A. Elnora, the 
Alma Nora of the biography, age seven, thus born about 1873. Is Julius 
GINZKEY related to Henry GINZKEY, who also resided in Alma? (See also the 
Buffalo County, Wisconsin, biography of Henry GINZKEY.) Are either or both 
of them related to George W. or George E. GINZKEY, who both resided with 
their families in Mondovi, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, according to the 1880 
census? Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching these 
surnames) to support and clarify information given in the biography and to 
raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly