FRANCIS W. BLAKE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 635 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


FRANCIS W. BLAKE, Burlington; born in Keene, N. H., in 1823; came to
Spring Prairie, Walworth County, in June, 1854: bought land there and
remained four years; sold out land and residence and came to Burlington,
in 1858; he first bought the house and lot now owned by Mrs. Miller, and
in 1862 he bought about eight acres of land just south of the Western
Union R. R. depot, laid out in town lots, about two blocks with large
brick residence, partly finished, which he completed and now occupies
with his family. He married, at Sexton's River, Vt., in 1852, and has
three children -- Francis H., Frederick and Belle. His family are
members of Congregational Church.