This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bock, Schreiner Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1102 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 885. LANCASTER JOSEPH BOCK, of the firm Bock & Schreiner, abstracts; was born in the province of Alsace, Germany; received a partly collegiate education; emigrated in 1857, and after a few months residence at St. Louis, settled at Cassville, in this county, the same year. Enlisted as a private in Co. C, 2d W. V. I., April 19, 1861; took part in the battle of first Bull Run, the skirmishes near Gordonsville, Va., near Richmond Railway and along Rappahannock, Va.; was wounded in both thighs at the battle of Gainesville, Va., Aug. 28, 1862; participated in Burnside's mud march against Fredericksburg; his wounds opened in 1863 and prevented farther active service, and he was mustered out of service in 1864. In 1865, he was elected Register of Deeds for Grant Co., and held that office until 1869, when he engaged in his present business and has the only set of abstract books of Grant Co. Mr. Bock was elected Representative to the State Legislature, and served during the sessions of 1876 - 77. [I am not related to this family, just posting this as a service and hope it helps!]