ROBERT HANKINSON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 671 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

ROBERT HANKINSON, horse farrier, Sec. 17; P. O. Rochester; born at
Lancashire, England, July, 1804 came to Dover in July, 1852, and took up
forty acres of Government land, and afterward purchased 240 acres more,
in Sections 16 and 17. He built a small residence, when he first came
here, on the forty-acre lot, and in November of the same year his house
was destroyed by fire, and he lost everything. He sold the land, and
built the residence on Sec. 17, that he now occupies. He is a farrier
and veterinary surgeon, and has been engaged in that business since he
came here. He married, in Lancashire, Maria Sadum, of the same place,
and had two children. His wife died in Dover in May, 1846. He married
again, Feb. 11, 1852, in Dover, Hannah Blackburn, and has six children
living - James, Annie, Tbomas, Mattie, Robert and Hannah. They all
attend St. Mary's Church.