JAMES BIRD - 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.

JAMES BIRD, farmer, Sec. 24 P. O. Union Grove. born in Renfrewshire,
Scotland, in 1812; in 1823 went to Montreal, Canada; in 1832 to New York
City; thence to Newark, N. J., where he was apprenticed to the
stonecutters' trade till 1835; during his apprenticeship he was with his
employer working in Havana, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands, and returned
to Newark. N. J., in 1837; went to Rochester, N. Y., and followed his
trade till 1842, and in fall of that year came to Racine Co. and took up
Governnent land, 200 acres in all- eighty acres in Sec. 24, Town 3,
Range 20 in Dover, and 129 acres in Sec. 19, Town 3, Range 21, in
Yorkville; has an elegant and large white brick residence, large barn
and granary, all nearly new. In 1842 he returned to Canada, and came
back to Dover in 1846. Married in Dover in 1847, Sophia Gral~-am; they
have eight children- Margaret Jane, born Nov. 17, 1847; Mary, May 20,
1849; Emily, May 11, 1851; James, March 26, 1853; William Graham, Jan.
17, 1856; Olive Janet, April 9, 1858; Annie Sophia, Oct. 18, 1860; Henry
D, May 7, 1863; all residing in Dover with their parents.