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


         [page 183]
         
         JACOB SEVERIN, County Surveyor, New Holstein. Born in
       Holstein, Germany, Jan. 31, 1842. Came to America in 1867, 
       directly to his present location. While in the Fatherland 
       he served in the Danish army in the engineer corps. On 
       settling down here he bought a farm in Oconto County, and 
       went to lumbering and farming, which he carried on till 1877, 
       when he came back to New Holstein, and in 1878 was elected 
       County Surveyor, and in 188o was re-elected. He still owns 
       200 acres of pine lands, and a cranberry marsh in Oconto 
       County. In 1870 he married Miss TIEDJENS, of Holstein. He 
       is a member of the I.O.O.F., and of the Turn Verein.

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