GEORGE MATTHEWS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 645 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


GEORGE MATTHEWS, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Burlington; he was born in
Jersey City in June, 1840; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1843;
they located where George now lives; his father, Daniel Matthews, was
born in Westchester Co., N. Y., May, 1806; he married, in New York City,
Miss Mary Bouton, a native of Westchester Co., N. Y.; they had twelve
children, only eight now living -- George, John, Caroline, Oliver,
Charles, August, William and Mary - their mother died June 20, 1858;
their father married again, in Salem Township, Miss Ellen Camutt, a
native of England - they had five children, four still living -Nellie,
Sarah, Clara, Delnia; their father died in July, 1866; the family own
240 acres of land, finely improved, good, large barns, comfortable house
and pleasant home; George Matthews has the management of the farm.