ROBERT BLACKBURN - 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.

ROBERT BLACKBURN. farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Union Grove; born in Bradford
Yorkshire, England, 1823; went to Lockport, N. Y., in 1844, with his
parents, and remained there till 1851; then went to Toronto, Canada;
thence to Racine Co., in 1852; located in Dover in 1854, and owns 135
acres of land in Sec. 36, with residence and barns, which he bullt. He
married in Paris, Kenosha Co., May 16, 1853. Mary Ann Murgatroyd, of
Paris , and they have six children- Frank, Charles W., Henry H., George
A., Frederick, John W.; he raises stock and hogs for Chicago and
Milwaukee markets, also, corn and flax. He enlisted in 1864 in 1st Wis.
Heavy Art., and was with his regiment till mustered out, July, 1865;
then returned to Dover.