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


A. F. MANNEGOLD, retired, Watertown; was born in Saxony, now 
Prussia, March 5, 1817; when he was 9 years of age, his parents died; his 
father having been a Second Lieutenant in the Prussian Army, the son 
became a cadet in the military school in Langdorf, Waisanfels, Prussia, 
where he remained until he was 14 years of age, when he was compelled 
to give up the profession of arms on account of the breaking of his leg.  
He then engaged as a cook on board the ship "Statesman."  Having 
broken his arm, he left the ship, and landed at Sheboygan, in this State, 
on the 24th day of September, 1847.  That fall he worked upon a farm, 
and the next spring learned the trade of milling, painting and 
carpentering, carrying on the same for two years, when he went to New 
Orleans and worked at his trade until the breaking-out of the cholera, 
when he went to Indiana and carried on his trade of miller.  He then went 
to Milan, Ohio, where he married Miss Hemith Rober, who came from 
Germany in the year 1850.  After his marriage, he moved to Syracuse, 
N.Y., and engaged in the grocery business.  In 1852, he went to Canada 
and ran a saw-mill, and several years afterward, returned to Ohio, and 
from there went to Burlington, Iowa.  On account of ill health, he 
returned to Europe with his family, and, after a brief sojourn, returned 
again to the United States, and first settled in Chicago, having a hotel 
and restaurant.  In 1864, he came to Watertown, and has lived retired 
ever since, his sons carrying on the well-known and popular Commercial 
Hotel.  They had nine children, five living - Henrietta (now Mrs. H. 
Bertram), George, Emma, Annie and Clara, and four deceased - one 
named Mary; the other three died in infancy.


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