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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 166]
         
         JOSEPH FUGINA, of the firm of J. & M. FUGINA, general mer-
       chandise, Fountain City. This firm having been established 
       in 1860, in a small frame building, on the corner of Main 
       and Liberty streets, and in 1869 moved into the brick build-
       ing which they now occupy. They also make grain buying a part 
       of their business. In April of 1875, the above firm started 
       a branch store at Arcadia, Trempealeau Co., in company with 
       J. M. FERTIG, and are also connected with him in the brewery
       at that place. They also own farm and wood land to the amount 
       of 950 acres. They are both members of the Catholic Church, 
       and JOSEPH was a liberal contributor to the Catholic school 
       at Fountain City, which was erected in 1871. The subject of 
       this sketch was born in Austria, March 25, 1835, and came 
       to the United States in 1856, and stopped in Chicago, where 
       he lived for four years. His brother, MARK, was born in the 
       same country in 1837, coming to America two years after he 
       did, which was in 1858, and in 1860, they came to Fountain 
       City.
       
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