WI BIO - Kenosha Co - ZIEVERS, Mathias
History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western 
Historical, 1879, p 702

Mathias ZIEVERS, saloon, city of Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, was born 
in Germany in 1823. He came to Wisconsin in 1857, locating at Kenosha, and 
engaged as a carpenter for nineteen years. In 1876 he opened a saloon on 
Main street [renamed Sixth Avenue about 1926], his present location.

In 1855 Mathias ZIEVERS married [his first wife] Miss Mary KRANN, a native of 
Germany, who died at Kenosha [Kenosha County, Wisconsin] in 1862. They 
[Mathias and Mary (KRANN) ZIEVERS] had three children, two sons and one 
daughter. In 1864 Mathias ZIEVERS married again [to his second wife], Miss 
Maggie HASS, a native of Germany, who died in 1866 at Kenosha [Kenosha 
County, Wisconsin.] On 20 April 1868 Mathias ZIEVERS married [his third 
wife] Miss Susan SCHWALTACH. Mathias and Susan (SCHWALTACH) ZIEVERS had one 
son.

Mathias ZIEVERS is a member of the Catholic Church, and politically is a 
Democrat. [If Mathias ZIEVERS held membership in a Catholic church in 
Kenosha, the most likely possibilities for his membership are St. George or 
St. Mark's, the latter being renamed St. James. St. George's Catholic Church 
was organized 17 July 1851, began as a small frame church at the corner of 
Chicago and Orange streets (renamed 8th Avenue and 48th Street about 1926), 
and the church and its school were destroyed by fire 12 January 1875 but 
rebuilt the same year. The "Old St. Mark's" church, united as a body on 06 
February 1834, and the church, at Ann and Wisconsin Streets (now 11th Avenue 
and 58th Street), was consecrated in 1846, and renamed St. James in 1883. A 
new St. Mark's Catholic Church was afterward built further south in the city 
of Kenosha. As stated in the biography, Mathias ZIEVERS came to Kenosha in 
1857, thus his last two marriages likely occurred in this country.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly