TRUE W. DURGIN - 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.

TRUE W. DURGIN, farmer; P. O. Burlington: born in Caledonia Co., Vt.,
Dec. 31,1816; lived there till he was 21 years old - then went to New
Hampshire; remained four years; in September, 1840, he came to
Burlington and took up 160 acres of land in Secs. 8 and 9, south of the
village of Burlington, which he afterwards sold, and bought land in Sec.
30; he now owns 137 acres of land in Sec. 30, including one large lot in
the village, on which stood, partly finished when be bougbt it, a stone
house, which he completed as a handsome residence in 1855, and moved
into it from his old residence on Sec. 8; he married, in Rochester,
Wis., Olive Stetson, of same place, Jan. 28, 1845 - had three children-
Edmund T., Mary E. and Florence O., all living; his wife died April 2S,
1857; is buried at Honey Creek; he married again, in Rochester, Ann
Eliza Soule, widow of George Newman, Feb. 10, 1858, and had two
children- Frank M. and Ella M. Mr. Durain is a deacon of the
Congregational Church and has been for nine years.