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 | | Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 167 William HECK, engineer of the steamer "Robert Harris" [Fountain City, Cross Township (per 1878 Atlas), Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 30 August 1843 in Germany [son of Eustach HECK?], and came to the United States with his parents, landing at New Orleans, where they remained but a short time. |
 | | In 1855 he came up the Mississippi River with his father to Reed's Landing [Wabasha County], Minnesota, where they remained for two years working in a saw mill, and in 1857 moved to Buffalo County [Wisconsin] and engaged in farming. |
 | | On an 1878 map this land is shown to be in Belvidere Township, southeast of the Village of Alma, a village unusual in shape, being long and narrow, built along the eastern bank of the Mississippi. |
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