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


PHILIPP SCHMIDT, manufacturer of toilet and laundry soaps.  He was 
born in Prussia in 1832; came to Watertown in January, 1855; for one 
year, he worked in the confectionery business here; afterward in same 
business two years at Mayville, Dodge Co.; in the liquor business at 
Hastings, Minn., two years; then, until 1861, he did fresco-painting in 
Memphis, Tenn.  In 1861, he returned to Watertown and engaged in the 
manufacture of soaps; he has now one of the best manufactories in the 
West, and is making thirty different varieties of laundry and toilet soaps.  
Mr. Smith is a member of the Concordia Musical Society, Sons of 
Hermann; has served as member of the School Board, etc.  He was 
married at Oconomowoc, May 22, 1862, to Augusta Krueger; she was 
born in Germany; they have four children - Willie, Hugo, Minnie and 
Emma.


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