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Peter Lavies
Peter Lavies or Lavis, Sr. (''c.'' 1790 – ''c.'' 1876) was a German-American farmer, tavernkeeper and sometime moneylender from Root Creek, Wisconsin. He was postmaster there, and served three one-year terms as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee County. His son Hubert Lavies succeeded him at different times as postmaster, and as Assemblyman. Lavies was born in Niederdrees (now a district of Rheinbach) in the Kingdom of Prussia, around 1790. In 1844 he, his wife Margaret, and their three sons and four daughters moved to the Greenfield, Wisconsin Greenfield is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 37,803 as of the 2020 census. Greenfield is one of many bedroom communities in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. History On March 8, 1839, the Town of Kinnik ... area from Prussia, buying eighty acres of land at the intersection of roads which are now Cold Spring Road, South 76th Street, and Forest Home Avenue. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root Creek, Wisconsin
Root Creek was a hamlet (place), hamlet in Section (United States land surveying), Sections 21-22 and 27-28 of the political subdivisions of Wisconsin#Towns, Town of Greenfield, Wisconsin, Greenfield in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States, on the Milwaukee-Janesville, Wisconsin, Janesville plank road, at what is now roughly the intersection of that thoroughfare (now Forest Home Avenue) and 68th Street. The body of water after which it was named is nowadays referred to as the Root River (Wisconsin), Root River. History The post office there was established August 19, 1847, near the eastern bank of Root Creek. When Peter Lavies became postmaster in 1854, soon after the establishment of the Hales Corners, Wisconsin, Hales Corners post office just on the other side of the river, he moved it northeastward to a site adjacent to his tavern, at what is now the junction of South 76th Street, Forest Home Avenue, and Cold Spring Road. In 1846, a Lutheranism, Lutheran church was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |