This book tells the story of Paul and Walburga Kraemer from 1866 when they arrived in New York to their stay in Ozaukee County near Milwaukee, to their purchase of a farm east of Plain, to the birth of their children and their retirement years in the 1890s and later. It also tells the story of their children: Frances Kraemer and Edward Weidner; Joseph Kraemer, Anna Brechtl and Theresa Eckstein; John Kraemer, Mary Schutz and Mary Schwartz; Theresa Kraemer and Martin Meister; Margaret Kraemer and Joseph Ruhland. It does not include the story of Peter Kraemer and his three wives and their children. That is covered in the next book Wisconsin Kraemers III: The twentieth century.