WI BIO - Sheboygan Co - ROEBER, Gustave

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1014

Gustave ROEBER, general store, Franklin [Herman Township], Sheboygan County, 
Wisconsin, was born in May 1832 in Germany. He came to America in 1848, and 
to Wisconsin in June 1848, and located in Rhine Township, Sheboygan County. 
[Wisconsin had become a State on 29 May 1848.] He was engaged in farming for 
three years, and then in the same capacity at Lake Superior, Michigan, for 
three years. ["Lake Superior, Michigan" seems to refer to what is now "Upper 
Michigan." Using 1851 as an approximate date, he would have farmed in either 
Marquette, Chippewa, Ontonagon, or Houghton County, since other counties in 
Upper Michigan were not yet created.] He afterward ran an hotel at the city 
of Sheboygan for some three years.

In August 1857 at Franklin [Herman Township, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin] he 
[Gustave ROEBER] was married to [Miss?] Julia KEISER, who was born in 
Germany. They [Gustave and Julia ROEBER] have eleven children: Gustave, 
Herman, Otto, Annie, Louis, William, Frederick, Charles, Ernst, Emil, and 
Meta. Mr. ROEBER came to Franklin in 1857, purchased his present business 
[general store] and has conducted it since. He is also engaged in the 
general merchandise business in company with A. MESCH, at Kiel [Schleswig 
Township], Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly