WILLIAM E. CHIPMAN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 637 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


WILLIAM E. CHIPMAN, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Burlington; was born near
Brockville, Canada, in 1822 he went to Morristown, N. Y.; then to
Onondaga Co., N. Y., with parents, when he was 12 years old; in 1846, he
came to Burlington and rented a farm, and lived on it till 1849, when he
bought seventy-three acres in Sec. 22, with residence and barns, and
lived there till 1852; then sold it and went to California. In 1856, he
returned to Kankakee Co., Ill.. and remained eight years in 1865,
returned to Burlington and bought 146 acres of land in Sec. 28, with
residence- the same farm he had rented in 1846. He married, in Onondaga
Co., N. Y., September, 1846, Susan Kathan, of same place; they have no
children.