Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

        Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 188]
         
         JACOB HILGERT, a well known farmer and stock raiser of section
       24, Alma township, Buffalo county, where he has resided for many
       years, was born in Germany, Feb. 13, 1852, son of JACOB and ANNA
       MARIE (MICHEL) HILGERT. The father was a native of Prussia, Germ-
       many, born April 8, 1819. He came to Alma township in 1872 and
       farmed till he died at the age of 82 years and his wife at that
       of 60. They had nine children, four of whom - MARY, KAT, VINA and
       HENRIETTA - are now deceased. The survivors are: LIZZIE, widow of
       JOHN BECK; JACOB, subject of this sketch; CHARLES, who resides in
       Alma township; and GEORGE, who is a resident of North Dakota.
       JACOB HILGERT (JR.) in his early manhood was employed by the Ameri-
       can Bridge Company and continued in that line of industry until
       1873, when he came to his present location in Alma township, home-
       steading two tracts of 40 acres each and buying another "forty"
       adjoining, on which latter tract he built a residence in 1874.
       About 50 acres of his farm are under the plow, the rest being in
       pasture and woods. In 1891 he built his present residence, subse-
       quently building an addition to it; he has also a good barn and
       outbuildings. MR. HILGERT has a good herd of milch cows of the
       Holstein breed, and gives considerable attention to dairying; 
       also to raising swine. In 1874 he took part in organizing school
       district No. 4, Alma township, and was subsequently school clerk
       for about four years. The first building was a log structure, the
       present one, of frame, being built in 1888. MR. HILGERT was mar-
       ried March 8, 1878, to MINNIE APPEL, who was born in Buffal City,
       Wis., Dec. 24, 1861, daughter of FREDERICK APPEL. Of the six 
       children in her parents' family, three are now living, the other
       two survivors being CHARLES, of Buffalo City, and WILLIAM, who
       resides in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. HILGERT have had six children
       also; HENRIETTA, wife of WILLIAM ALLITZ of Belvidere township;
       ADOLPH, who married EMMA HAIGH; WALTER, who is residing at home;
       and ALVINA, who died at the age of six months; GEORGE, born
       April 23, 1892; PAULINA, born Oct. 17, 1894, married ALBERT DORN
       and lives at Glencoe, Buffalo county.
       
===========================================================================