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 183] H. SEVERIN, teacher, New Holstein. Born in Holstein, Ger- many, Sept. 30, 1848. In 1867 he came to his present home. He was educated for a teacher in Germany, and began at six- teen years of age to teach. On arriving in this country, he worked on a farm with an American family, and while doing so, studied English. He taught Winter terms from 1868 to 1871. He then took the school in district No. 4, where he taught one term, and then entered on a term in district No. 1, that has lasted nine years. His school has two departments, having an enrollment of 120 pupils, and an average attendance of ninety. In 1873 he married Miss LANGEMAK. They have two children, JOHANNES, now seven years old, and HERMAN H., two years. Mr. S. belongs to the Masonic lodge, and to the Turn Verein. ===========================================================================