- JOHN LUCHSINGER, a widely known attorney at law and justice
of the peace, at Monroe,
- Green county, is a scholarly man, with a good knowledge of
his profession, its principles, and its rules of procedure, and
an extended reputation as a historical and political writer of
thorough information and incisive style.
- John LUCHSINGER was born in Schwanden, Canton Glarus, Switzerland,
June 29, 1839, a son
- of John and Barbara (WILD) LUCHSINGER, both also natives
of Switzerland. They had four sons and four daughters, and six
of their children are now living: Nicholas, of Vineland, N.J.;
Julia, widow of George DITTMAN, of Philadelphia; Sybilla, widow
of John RITTER, of Philadelphia; John; Barbara, widow of Jacob
BURGY, of Monroe; and Frederick, of Belleville, Wis. The father,
who was a mason, stone-cutter, and builder, came to the United
States in 1845, living for a few months at Syracuse, N.Y., and
then moved to Philadelphia. In 1852 he went to California, and
followed mining there for four years, being fairly prosperous.
In 1856 he came back to Philadelphia, gathered up his household
goods and possessions, and brought his family to New Glarus,
Wis., then the center of an extremely interesting Swiss settlement.
There he bought a farm, and engaged in its cultivation until
1862, when he died, at the comparatively early age of fifty-one.
His widow survived until 1868, and was fifty-eight years old
at the time of her death. They were members of the Swiss Reformed
Church. His father, Nicholas LUCHSINGER, also followed the trade
of stone-cutter and mason, and lived to the age of eighty-six.
He reared a family of eight children. Samuel WILD, father of
Barbara WILD, mentioned above, was a dairyman, and died in Switzerland
when eighty-five years old.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 673-674.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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