George Kishner

Regions: Oswego Co., NY; Walworth Co., WI

From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, publ. 1912, Page 1286-1287 GEORGE KISHNER. It is doubtful if we of the present generation fully realize what the old soldiers of the great Union army of a million brave men had to sacrifice "in order that the nation might live, under God," in the language of Mr. Lincoln's incomparable Gettysburg speech, and it is also doubtful if we fully appreciate what they have done for us, leaving us a broad, rich, populous and beautiful country, so strongly cemented together that there will never again be any North or South, any East or West, but one splendid union, the greatest of the nations of the earth, progressing ever to one golden end, the future of which no man can see or even dream. Had it not been for the "grand army," of which George KISHNER of the village of East Delavan, Walworth county, was a member, conditions would have been today far different. We therefore owe to him, and them, all the respect and gratitude possible. Mr. KISHNER was born in Oswego, New York, May 26, 1845. He is the son of George KISHNER and wife, nee SMITH. Both were born in Germany, from which country they emigrated to the United States when quite young, locating first at Oswego, New York, then they moved to Chicago where the mother of the subject died. The father subsequently moved to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Janesville, where he was interested in a meat house, also a similar business at Kenosha and Geneva, and finally settled in East Delavan, and here bought a farm of sixty-eight acres which he operated until his death in 1891, having become very well established here. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George KISHNER, Sr., three of whom are deceased; those now living are, Charles, Edward, Fred, James, Emma and George, of this review. George KISHNER, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Janesville, Wisconsin, and he helped his father with his work when growing to manhood. He now lives in East Delavan. He was never married. Politically, the subject is a Republican, but he has never been active in political affairs. In religious matters he is a member of the Episcopal church. The subject enlisted in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, under Captain CHENEY, on February 8, 1865, and he served very faithfully during the war. Submitted by Carol