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


DENNIS PETERS, firm of Benkendorf & Peters, flouring-mills; born 
Jan. 10, 1836, in Tipperary Co., Ireland; came to American with his 
parents in 1845, who first located in Albany, N.Y. in 1846, came to 
Milwaukee, Wis., where he was educated; in 1851, moved to Watertown 
City and worked for Mr. Potter in a hotel; in 1855, went to work for the 
M. & St. P.R.R., as foreman of the stables; in 1858, began to work in 
L.A. Cole & Co.’s flouring-mill; in 1859, went to Lowell, Wis., and ran 
the mill there for ten years, when he returned to Watertown and ran 
Koenig & Co.’s mill for seven years; in 1876, he went into partnership 
with Mr. Benkendorf; the capacity of his mill is one hundred  barrels of 
flour a day, and they have four runs of stones.  Married Miss Jane 
Kenney, of Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 15, 1860; they have five children – Ella 
Jane, Anna Isabel, Mary Frances, Henrietta and Susan.  Members of the 
R.C. Church.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)