HENRY CADY - Biography

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This biography appears on page 661 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HENRY CADY, Postmaster, Rochester; born in Windsor, Vt., Aug. 21, 1809;
son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cady; they settled at Utica, N. Y.; Henry
Cady came to Racine Co. in the spring of 1839 worked at his trade in
Rochester as carpenter and joiner was in that business about fifteen
years; owned a farm of 200 acres on Sec. 10; worked that about fifteen
years; was appointed Postmaster in 1873. His pioneer life was full of
deprivations and hardships, but he left many pleasant memories of the
hospitality of the early settlers and their hearty welcome to strangers.
Mr. Cady married Miss Mertia Hickox; they had seven children, six
living. The mother of these children died in 1849. Mr. Cady married
again, Miss Sarah Whitman, Oct., 1851, daughter of David Whitman, of
Port Huron, Mich.; they have two children- Luella L., Lizzie S. Mr. Cady
was Deputy Sheriff of Racine Co. from 1843 for several years; has been
Justice of tho Peace, and has held other minor offices.