. History of Milwaukee, city and county . n Milwaukee about 1838,finding here nothing but a little village. At that time he wished to buy the propertywhere the city hall now stands but it was a swampy district and he decided againstmaking the purchase. Instead he went to Cedarburg, where he took up a homesteadclaim. He was a carpenter by trade but cleared his land and spent his remaining daysin farming. The old home place was owned by the Schumacher family up to twoyears ago. The Kimme family arrived in America a few years after the Schumacherfamily and settlement was made at Sheboygan, Wiscon
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . n Milwaukee about 1838,finding here nothing but a little village. At that time he wished to buy the propertywhere the city hall now stands but it was a swampy district and he decided againstmaking the purchase. Instead he went to Cedarburg, where he took up a homesteadclaim. He was a carpenter by trade but cleared his land and spent his remaining daysin farming. The old home place was owned by the Schumacher family up to twoyears ago. The Kimme family arrived in America a few years after the Schumacherfamily and settlement was made at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Schumacher farmwas developed into one of the best farming properties of Ozankee county and com-prised two hundred acres of land, which by reason of the care and cultivation that wasbestowed upon the tract produced splendid crops. Mr. Schumacher built a stone house,which was the first residence of the kind in the county. He also owned the first buggyused in that vicinity and kept only blooded stock. He paid as high as six hundred. ERNEST TRETTIN HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE 343 dollars for a colt, and his cattle were full blooded Holstein. He continued the workof developing and improving his property as the years passed on until it was one ofthe show places of the county, and Ihereon he spent his last days, passing away in1S79. To Mr. and Mrs. Trettin were born six children, of whom two died in infancy,the others being: Minnie, William, Florence and Ernest. In 1S91 Mr. Trettin returned to Germany, being then twenty-one years of was drafted into the German army and held as a subject of Germany, but throughthe influence of Alderman Fass of Milwaukee he obtained his release and returned tothis city. In 1911 he again visited his native land. He was a member of the GermaniaClub and also of the Old Settlers Club. His political endorsement was given to thedemocratic party, and his religious faith was that of the German Lutheran had a wide acquaintance in this city by
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