BROOK SHEARD - 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.


BROOK SHEARD, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Dover; born in Yorkshire, England,
March 1, 1835; he came to Burlington, Wis., with his parents in 1843,
where he remained with his father till 1861, when he came to Dover and
bought 120 acres in Sec. 30 from John P. Saunders, with house he lives
in; then built new barns, and otherwise improved it. He married in Dover
Dec. 25, 1856, Anna Gooder; of Dover, and has six children living-
Louisa, Mary, Sydney, Ralph, Henry and George. He was drafted in 1864
and attached to 22d Wis.; did nothing but provost duty, and was
discharoed at Madison, Wis., May 8, 1865.