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


         [page 166-167]
         
         AUGUST GERLICH, billiard hall and saloon, Fountain City,
       was born in Germany, Dec. 10, 1829. He came to America with 
       his parents in 1833, and lived with them in Cincinnati un-
       til 1848, when he went to Dubuque, Ia., where he worked at 
       tailoring, and also in Galena, Ill. In 1853, he started to 
       work at painting, which he followed until 1856, and then 
       came up the Mississippi to Fountain City, where he remained 
       but a short time returning to Galena. He there married MRS. 
       GERLICH, widow of his deceased brother FREDERICK J., by whom 
       she had two children, FREDERICK A. and CAROLINE E. After his 
       marriage he returned to Fountain City, in the Fall of 1865, 
       he has made it his home ever since. He engaged at house and 
       sign painting until 1880, when he started his present busi-
       ness. He has nine children - FIDELIS, LUDWIG W., GEORGE H.,
       EMMA, LENA, JOHN E., ALFORD, NORA and one infant son unnamed.
       
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