WILLIAM SAUNDERS - 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.


WILLIAM SAUNDERS, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Dover; was born in County
Antrim, Ireland, in 1821; came to New York in 1847, and to Dover in
1848; he bought eighty acres of land in Sec. 31, and built the house his
family now live in, with barns, etc. He married in Yorkville Nov. 5,
1849, Margaret Hunter, of Antrim, Ireland, and had nine children-
Isabella, Leana, Martha, William H., Susan, John, Nathan, Maggie, and
Jane. His father, Henry Saunders, married in Ireland, in 1808, Martha
Harvey, and came to Dover in 1848, with his wife and one son- William.
She died in 1862; he died in 1864.