Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: 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 Northern Wisconsin pub: The Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1881 [page 187] STEPHEN NICOLAI, retired, Sherwood. Born in Prussia, Ger- many. Emigrated to America in 1852. He came to Wisconsin in 1859. In 1873 he built a store in Sherwood, which he conducted till 1877; he had one also in Hilbert, which he closed in 1880, when he went to Colorado. He was married twice, in 1856 to Miss ELIZABETH MOTT, who died in 1874; then to Mrs. BARBARA SHOMAN. He had seven children by his first wife, and his present wife has three by her former husband. Mr. NICOLAI belongs to the I. O. O. F.