MARTIN LAVIN - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 671-672 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

MARTIN LAVIN, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Kansasville; born in Ireland in
1807, and went, to Buffalol N. Y., 1842, and from there came to Dover,
in 1842, and took up eighty acres Government land in Sections 22, 23, 27
afterward purchased 420 acres more, and now owns 500 acres in above
sections. He married in Ireland in 1830, Nancy Cunningham, of Ireland;
have three children-- Bernard, John and Bridget. Bridget married John
Cox, of Dover, and resides there. John married Ellen McCarthy, and
resides in New York City. Bernard married Mary Cunningham, of Dover, and
he owns eighty acres in Sec. 27, but resides with his father on Sec. 23.