“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


CHARLES F. KREBS,  Clerk of Circuit Court, Jefferson; was born in 
the Principality of Saxe, Weiningen, Germany, Sept. 6, 1827; came to 
America in 1854 and to Fond du Lac in 1855, where he lived four years; 
was in the retail grocery business there; then went to Watertown and 
kept a summer garden; was in the wholesale and retail liquor trade and 
harness business, and also served as Justice of the Peace for about eleven 
years; in 1865, was book-keeper for Charles Stoppenbach in Jefferson; 
was in the life insurance business two years.  Mr. K. served four years in 
the army while in Germany; this army service was during the revolution 
and was against Denmark, in 1849.  Married Eva Mosel Aug. 29, 1860; 
she was born in the Province of the Rhine, Prussia, June 11, 1839; they 
had ten children; eight living; the oldest, Louise, born July 12, 1861; the 
others are Magdalena, Emily, Freddie, Charles, Francis, Regina and 
Susan, aged 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6 and 2-1/2 years, respectively.


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