Frank & Matthew Berschens General Merchandise Store Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 Horses lined the street on a Farmer’s Fair Dayabout 1910 as the farmers and their wagons congregated in front of the BerschensBros. General Merchandise Store (Frank and Matt). At the time the street wasMenomonee Ave, but today it is Lannon Road. Berschens… Read more »
Sussex-Lannon quarryman J. Dale Dawson dies at 83 One of the great stone barons of Sussex and Lannon, J. Dale Dawson, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at age 83. By FRED H KELLER Sussex Sun, Posted: July 9, 2008 One of the great stone barons of Sussex and Lannon, J. Dale Dawson, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at age 83…. Read more »
Dubnicka Family Dubnicka was local multi-sport star ByFred Keller Posted Living Sussex Sun, March 10, 2015 A Lannon, Butler and Fussville man larger than life, Rudolph “Rudy” J. Dubnicka passed away Feb. 9, survived by seven children, 20 grandchildren and 24 great grand children, with many still living in the immediate area. He was 87 years old. Dubnicka stood out… Read more »
The Harmon family in Lannon by Fred H. Keller Posted: Retrospect, Living Sussex Sun, Jan. 4, 2011 1:28 p.m. Glenn D. Harmon, 1898-1963, served as the second Lannon Village President from 1932-36. He was the grandson of an 1842 pioneer to the Lannon area as he originally applied for a homestead 160 acres on the north side of Good Hope… Read more »
Dennis McCarty Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 Dennis McCarty b. circa 1805-10 inCounty Cork, Ireland, d. Feb., 1848; (At an early age he landed in Quebec,Canada, then moved to New York state for 12 years, he came to the Town ofMenomonee in 1842 , which became part of Waukesha County whenthe Milwaukee County Territory split in… Read more »
Charles Byron Kerr: Lisbon farmer, milk hauler by Fred H. Keller, Living Sussex Sun, Retrospect, September 1, 2009 C. B. Kerr was the common name of a prominent Lisbon farmer on Good Hope Road from before World War I to the early 1960s. Very few people knew that his proper name was Charles Byron. The Kerr farm was the old… Read more »
Keebler Family History Compiled and transcribed by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 12/20/2005 Passing of Pioneer – One of the Early Settlers of the Town of Lisbon Dead Lisbon, Oct. 21. – On Oct. 19 Frederick Keebler, while sitting in his chair, peacefully passed away. he was born in Wittenberg, Germany, on the Rhine, May 23, 1827. When… Read more »
Jung Family History Fred H. Keller Last Revised 11/24/2008 Retrospect: Lisbon’s Richard Jung stood out among town’s VIP’s First of two parts Posted: October 29, 2008 Sussex Sun By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Only one Lisbon town chairman served in the armed forces during World War II Richard Dick M. Jung, a Navy man, on the aircraft… Read more »
Helen May Jeffery was part of a major Lisbon family, the Scottish immigrant family of the Jefferys that claimed vast swaths of land in Lisbon on North Lisbon Road and Colgate Road, going back to the late 1840s. When she met Albert Otto Meissner (born Aug. 25, 1906) in 1932, he was a third generation of German immigrants in the… Read more »
James Howitt Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 09/06/2012 Biographical Sketch of James Howitt – Andrew County, Missouri > From “History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County” Published 1888 Copyright. All rights reserved.http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htmhttp://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com) James Howitt was born in Scotland, December 27, 1823. His paternal grandfather was George Howitt, a native of… Read more »
