JOHN BELL - Biography

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This biography appears on page 669 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN BELL, farmer, Sec. 28 P. O. Kansasville; born in County Armagh,
Ireland, in 1814; came to New York in 1843; fall of same year to Dover;
he now owns 235 acres of land in Secs. 2, and 29; he built the residence
and barns on Sec. 28; is a widower, and works the farm on shares with
Mr. Cheeseman, of Rochester; it is the third farm that Mr. Bell has
broken and improved. He married, in Dover, Agnes McKee, who died in
Aug., 1867; he again married Mary Cherry, who died in Aug., 1878; he had
six children by first wife- Annie, William, Susan, Eliza, James, John.