WI BIO - Dodge Co - SCHMID, George

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 680

George SCHMID, farmer and brewer, Sections 25 and 26 [LeRoy Township, Dodge 
County, Wisconsin], P. O. Farmersville [LeRoy Township], was born 10 March 
1829 in Bavaria [Germany], where he was educated and learned his trade of 
brewer.

George SCHMID came to America in 1853, spent three years in Milwaukee 
[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin], and then settled on his present farm of 
seventy-four and a half acres. He built his brewery in 1858, and has since 
continued the business, manufacturing about 100 barrels of beer per annum. 
His improved farm, large house and barns, brewery, etc., are the result of 
his own labor and management.

In 1854 he [George SCHMID] married Miss Mary GREINER, who was born 01 
February 1832 in Bavaria [Germany]. They [George and Mary (GREINER) SCHMID] 
have nine children: George, Mary, Anna, Lizzie, Joseph, Matilda, Caroline, 
Alis, and Max. Mr. SCHMID is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the 
Catholic Church.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly