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


SIMON JOHN RICHTER, teacher in Lutheran School; born in the 
village of Mengelsdorf, near Goerlitz, in the Province of Silesia, Nov. 5, 
1850; came to America with his father in January, 1854; located in 
Houston, Texas, remaining there six months; then they went to 
Pittsburgh, Penn., where his father died; S. J. Richter remained in 
Pittsburgh until 1870; attended the parochial school, also the Franklin 
Public School in that city; then he was a student at the Normal School at 
Addison, Ill.; for two years he taught at Sheboygan Falls, since then in 
Watertown; he was a member of the Young Men’s Lyceum for several 
years.  Sept. 9, 1876, he was married, at Beaver Dam, to Miss Ida 
Nimmer; she was born in Wusterhausen, Prussia; they have one child – 
Flora Helena Maria, born Jan. 14, 1879.




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