Peter Heinrichs, was born in Saxony, Germany. He emigrated to America with his parents as a young boy. He was a successful farmer in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and engaged in an insurance and agricultural implements business. He died in Colorado Springs, Colorado while participating in the Pike's Peak Gold Rush which is dated July 1858 to March 1861. -- Information from his son, Herman's biographical sketch in "A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan" written by Alvah L. Sawyer and published by The Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago, 1911.
Peter Heinrichs, was born in Saxony, Germany. He emigrated to America with his parents as a young boy. He was a successful farmer in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and engaged in an insurance and agricultural implements business. He died in Colorado Springs, Colorado while participating in the Pike's Peak Gold Rush which is dated July 1858 to March 1861. -- Information from his son, Herman's biographical sketch in "A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan" written by Alvah L. Sawyer and published by The Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago, 1911.
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