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


         [page 179]

	 L. D. GEISSE, machinist, Chilton. Born in Fond du Lac County,
       June 6, 1847. His father moved to that county as early as 1842,
       and settled at Taycheedah. He had large means, and carried on
       quite an extensive business, but failed in 1854, and died Sept.
       10, 1873. L. D. went to school in the village until old enough
       to learn a trade, when he went East into the machine shops,
       working in the Baldwin locomotive shops in Philadelphia. He then
       began a life of wandering, going to Unionville, Nevada, to run
       the quartz mills, then back to Philadelphia to ship on the steamer
       "Tombo" for a voyage up the Amazon River on a survey; returning
       to the port from which he shipped, and going into the ship-yard
       belonging to William Cramp, and after working in the United States
       navy yard, coming back home to Fond du Lac County.  In 1876 he
       opened the machine shops in Chilton. In 1874 he married  Miss
       HELEN BIGFORD. They have three children. He is a member of the
       I. O. O. F.

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