This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schwaiger Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1164 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 896. LANCASTER REV. PETER SCHWAIGER, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, and was born at Schweinkofen April 28, 1838; received his education there and studied five years in Bavaria; emigrated to America in September, 1858, studied in Westmoreland, Penn., then came to Milwaukee where he completed his studies at St. Francis' Seminary and was ordained in that city in 1863, his first pastorate was in Washington Co.; he has served acceptably as Pastor in the counties of Sheboygan, Dane and Racine, and was appointed Pastor of his present church in 1877. [I am not related to this family. I'm just posting this as a service and hope it helps!]