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


RICHARD STEINBERG, butcher, and pork and beef packer, wholesale 
and retail dealer; born in Germany March 18, 1844; came to America in 
1860; located in Milwaukee.  In 1861, he enlisted in Co. H, 26th W.V.I.; 
afterward served three years in the 1st Cav. of Washington, D.C.; he 
served until after the close of the war in 1865, then he returned to 
Milwaukee and remained there until he came to Watertown in 1867.   In 
1868, he was married, in Watertown, to Augusta Seibel; she was born in 
Prussia; they have four children – Awald, Julia, Elanora and Amalia.


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