WI BIO - Kewaunee Co - WILLEMIN, Joseph

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 436

Joseph WILLEMIN, retired, was born 01 June 1801 in Alsace, France. In 1832 
he came to Oswego [Oswego County], New York, and in October 1836 came to 
Chicago [Cook County, Illinois], where he lived about thirty years. He first 
followed the blacksmith trade about four years. His shop was where now the 
Fidelity Savings Bank building now stands. He afterward followed gardening 
on the North Side [of Chicago], where he owned a large quantity of land, and 
he continued at that business about twenty years. [The name "Joseph 
WILLEMIN" appears in the 1884 Directory for the City of Chicago, living at 
"teamster house Dutch Settlement."]

In 1826 he [Joseph WILLEMIN] was married to Mary STOQUAH [a maiden name?], of 
Alsace, who was born in 1808. She [Mary WILLEMIN] died December 1875. They 
[Joseph and Mary WILLEMIN] had five children, and all are deceased.

In May 1876 he [Joseph WILLEMIN] removed to Ahnapee [Kewaunee County, 
Wisconsin; now Algoma]. On 22 October 1876 he was married to Mrs. ANDEREGG, 
a daughter of C. CIEGFRIED [SIEGFRIED?], a native of Saxony [Germany]. She 
[the second Mrs. WILLEMIN, nee CIEGFRIED] was born 22 March 1839. She has 
four children [by her former marriage to --- ANDEREGG]: Charles, George C., 
Joseph R., and Sarah. Their [Joseph and his second wife's] residence was 
built in 1877, and is supposed to be the finest in the [Kewaunee] county.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly