SAMUEL WILSON - Biography

====================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
         free information on the Internet, data may be used by
         non-commercial entities, as long as this message
         remains on all copied material. These electronic
         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
         written consent of the file contributor, or the legal 
         representative of the contributor, and contact the 
         listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

         This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
         Archives by:   
WISCONSIN BIOGRAPHY INDEX
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wibiog/
2002

====================================================================
This biography appears on pages 675 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

SAMUEL WILSON, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Dover; was born in County Antrim,
Ireland, 1821; came to Dover in 1848, and bought 120 acres of land in
Section 29, and built the residence and barns he now occupies. There was
an old log cabin containing, one room, 16x20, the second one built in
the county, on the ground which he occupied when he first came here,
until he built the residence he now occupies; he afterward used the
cabin as a stable for a long time, and lately had it torn down to make
room for a new barn. He married, in County Antrim, in 1846, Eliza Allen,
of the same place, and has five children living- Eliza A., James A.,
Jennie A., Robert B. and Stewart T. They attend the U. P. Church.