WI BIO - Dodge Co - ROCH, Frank

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 732

Frank ROCH, farmer; P. O. Richwood [Shields Township, Dodge County, 
Wisconsin], was born in December 1821 in Austria. [Richwood is northwest of 
Watertown, which lies in both Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin. On 
the 1878 map of Dodge County, Richwood is on the rail line of what the map 
reads is the LaCrosse Division of the "Milwaukee & St. Paul," but was 
probably abbreviated for space, that railway being the LaCrosse Division of 
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The majority of railroads in Wisconsin 
were constructed in the 1850's, the first train running from Milwaukee to 
Waukesha in 1851.] He served in the Fifth Austrian Artillery for ten years, 
and came to America in 1853, locating in Dodge County, Wisconsin, where he 
operates a farm of eighty acres.

On 25 February 1852 Frank ROCH married [his first wife] Barbara SHERTZ [a 
maiden name?]. She [Barbara ROCH] died 09 February 1877, leaving six 
children. The three girls and three boys [of Frank and Barbara ROCH] are: 
Charles, Joseph, Matilda, Mary, Frank, and Caroline. On 18 June 1878 Frank 
ROCH married [his second wife] Lizzie CHIOH [a maiden name?]. Religiously, 
Frank ROCH is a member of the Catholic Church, and politically, is a Democrat.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly