This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schloesser, Finney, Schaeffer Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1160 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 896. LANCASTER MISS BARBARA SCHLOESSER, milliner, Lancaster; commenced business in the spring of 1868, in partnership with Miss Anna Finney; after one year, Miss Finney retired and Miss Schloesser has since continued alone; she carries a stock of nearly $1,000 during the busy season; Miss Schloesser is a native of Germany, born near the city of Cologne, a daughter of Henry J. and Catherine (Schaeffer) Schloesser; her parents came to the United States in 1849, and lived in Racine nearly three years, when they settled on a farm near Lancaster where they died, her mother, June 7, 1857, and her father, Feb. 12, 1859, aged respectively 42 and 48. She has four brothers living; her brother John who enlisted in the 8th W. V. I., died in Andersonville Prison from starvation, after many months' suffering, having been taken a prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg; another brother, Henry, of the 2d W. V. C., of congestive chills after a severe campaign. Aug. 4, 1864. [I am not related to this family. Just posting this as a service and hope it helps!]