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


L.W. SHAKSHESKY,  of Shakshesky & Friedel, merchants, Rome; 
born in Bridgeport, Conn., March 17, 1854; spent four years of his life at 
Germania, Penn., where he attained the rudiments of his English and 
German education; came to Rome and attended school until he was 14; 
then learned the business of cigar-making in Milwaukee and spent one 
year in Georgia; returning to Rome, he attended school until he was 17, 
then went to Chicago and was in a store five years; opened business for 
himself in Rome in 1878, where, with his partner, he is carrying a large 
stock of dry-goods, groceries, hardware, paints and oils, crockery, hats 
and caps, boots and shoes, tinware of their own manufacture, sewing-
machines, patent medicines, notions, etc.  Mr. S. is independent in 
politics, liberal in religion and is a member of Rome Lodge, I.O.O.F.


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