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


GUSTAV RABBACH, farmer, Sec. 33;  P.O. Watertown; born July 7, 
1835, in Prussia, where he worked on his father’s farm; came to America 
in 1859; worked in Janesville, Wis., for a time; then moved to 
Watertown Township, Jefferson Co., and worked out till 1863, when he 
bought thirty acres of land; in 1867, sold it and bought forty acres; in 
1872, sold out and bought forty acres on the Jefferson road, and, in 1877, 
sold that and bought the farm he now owns, of eighty acres; built his 
house, barns, etc.; he raises all kinds of grain and stock.  Married Miss 
Sophie Mass, of Prussia, Dec. 22, 1864, and has had seven children – 
Minnie M., born Nov. 27, 1865; Emma M. S., May 9, 1867, died June 
28, 1867; Ida H., born Oct. 3, 1868, died Jan. 24, 1869; Mary M., born 
Oct. 3, 1868, died Jan. 22, 1869; Anna A., born Sept. 11, 1869; Emile G. 
J., July 3, 1875; Wilhelm J., May 18, 1877, died Sept. 17, 1877.


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