GEORGE HARDIE - 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.

GEORGE HARDIE, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Rochester; was born in
Kinrossshire, Scotland, June 9, 1821; came to New York in 1841; worked
on the Illinois Canal, at Lockport, Ill., winter of 1841-42; worked on
the dam at Milwaukee, in 1844; came to Dover with his brother David. He
owns 430 acres land in Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, and has been farming since
he came here. He married, in Dover, Jan 5, 1846, Mary Ormiston, daughter
of Samuel Ormiston, and has six children living- Grace, Mary Ann,
George, William, John, Maggie.