SAMUEL TOOMBS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 652 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


SAMUEL TOOMBS, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Burlington; he was born in
Buckinghamshire, England, Feb. 13, 1813; he came to Wisconsin in 1839,
located in Burlington, and engaged in by industry and strict economy, he
has accumulated a handsome property. He married, in Racine April, 1849,
Miss Artemisa Rose; she was born in Orange Co. N. Y. They have three
children living - Addie (married Wm. Bushnell), Jerome and Albert. Mr.
Toombs owns 100 acres of fertile land, finely improved, good barns- a
pleasant home.