GEORGE MEADOWS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 645-646 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

GEORGE MEADOWS, Burlington born in Lancashire, England, in 1804 came to
New York State in 1841 remained till 1849 then came to Burlington and
bought 120 acres of land in Sec. 33, with residence, all improvements;
he lived there till 1853, then sold the land to the Western Union
Railroad and went to Walworth Co., where he bought the Minor farm, 296
acres, he paid over $6,600; lived there till 1870; then sold the farm to
his youngest son, George; came to Burlington, and bought the house and
lot they now occupy; he married, in Lancashire, England, Feb. 27, 1825,
Elizabeth Greenwood, and had eleven children, four of whom are dead;
those living are Sarah, Ellen, Ann, William, Elizabeth, John and George;
are all married and have families; John enlisted in the 9th Wis.
Battery, in 1861, and remained with his regiment till the close of the
war.