Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

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Rev. Herman Grosse, Pastor of Catholic Church, Sauk City; was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1842; was educatin the College at Heiligenstadt, the universities at Munich and Austria, and at Wesphalia, being ordained at the latter city, June 16. 1865. In 1866, he came to this country, and was again ordained in Milwaukee, Wis., in June of that year, and immediately afterward went to Missouri and had pastoral charge of a church at Kansas City for five years; thence to St. Mary's, Monroe Co., Wis., and was Pastor of the church at that place about seven years ; then coming to Sauk City, and having charge of the congregation there since.

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