AARON PUTNAM - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 673 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


AARON PUTNAM, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Union Grove; born in Columbia Co.,
N Y., in 1806, went to Delaware Co., N. Y., with his parents, and lived
there till 1820; his parents then went to Otsego Co., N. Y., where he
remained with them till 1828; he came to Dover in April, 1840, and took
up 180 acres of Government land in Sec. 36, Town 3, Range 20; afterward
purchased forty acres more in Sec. 25; he built a residence and barns
for his family on Sec. 36, and resides there. He married, in Otsego Co.,
N. Y., Dec. 20, 1832, Maria Youmans, of same place; they have five
children living- Helen M., Sarah Jane, Marilla A., Mary J., Herbert E.
Nathan Putnam, his father, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at
Sackett's Harbor.