This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Braatz, Jacobi Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2EC.2ACE/3215.1 Message Board Post: "August Braatz, dealer in agricultural implements, Wausau; came to Berlin with his parents and lived there on a farm until 1872; then he began farming for himself, and soon after bought a farm in the town of Maine. He moved to Wausau May 23, 1881, and engaged in his present business. He was born in Germany, August 16, 1845; he was married in Berlin Township July 21, 1870 to Mary Jacobi; she was born in Germany, May 26, 1846; they have seven children - Ada H., Otto H., Albert A., Emma E., Emil F., Robert R., and Matilda L." transcribed by JWK from History of Northern Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois: 1881, p. 557.