WI BIO - Dodge Co - ROTH, Ludwig

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

Ludwig ROTH, farmer [Shields Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], P. O. 
Watertown, was born 22 May 1831 in Baden, Prussia. In 1854 he came to 
America and settled in Oconomowoc [Waukesha County], Wisconsin, and rented a 
farm, which he worked for seven years, and in 1861 he bought a farm of forty 
acres in the town of Watertown, Jefferson County. [Watertown, a border 
community, is located in both Emmet Township, Dodge County, and in Watertown 
Township, Jefferson County.] In 1873 he sold that farm, and purchased his 
present homestead, consisting of sixty acres on Section 23, town [township] 
of Shields [Dodge County].

On 02 January 1855 he [Ludwig ROTH] married [Miss] Sophia AMES, daughter of 
John AMES. They [Ludwig and Sophia (AMES) ROTH] have three children, one boy 
and two girls: (1) Ferdinand, (2) Lena, and (3) Mary. Religiously Mr. 
ROTH is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and politically, is a Democrat.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly