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Rev. John Brockmann

 
The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1879.

Rev. John H. Brockmann, pastor of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Watertown and vicinity; born in Hanover February 8, 1833; educated in Europe; ordained to the Christian ministry in Germany in 1861; came to America in 1862.

He preached at Ahnapee, Wis., four years, afterward two years at Mosel, Sheboygan Co.; in 1868, he went to Fort Atkinson, where he remained until he came to Watertown, in January, 1875. Mr. Brockmann married Sophia Scheele Oct. 3, 1862; she was born in Germany. They had three children: Johanna, Theodore and Paul.