HENRY LEACH DEVEREUX - Biography

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This biography appears on page 638 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HENRY LEACH DEVEREUX, editor and publisher of the Burlington Standard;
born in 1808, in Marblehead, Mass.; his early education was received in
the pride of the State of Massachusetts- the public school, ending his
education with a few terms in a private academy; left home at the age of
14 years and entered a printing office at Exeter, N. H.; remained two
years; then enlaged in a printing office at Salem, Mass., remaining one
year; in 1825, went to Boston, where he completed his trade and remained
until 1852, when he went to Winnebago Co., Ill., and engaged in farming;
remained five years; then removed to Beloit and purchased the Beloit
Journal, remaining about five years; went to Delavan as partner in the
Delavan Northron for one year; he then returned to farming for about
three years; in 1864, went to Janesville, remaining eighteen months,
when he went to Burlington and purchased the Standard from L. E. Smith.
Married, Nov. 2, 1830, Miss Hanna N. Emmerson, a native of New
Hampshire. Members of Episcopal Church.