ALLEN STETSON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 664 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


ALLEN STETSON, farmer, southeast quarter of Sec. 6; P. O. Rochester born
in Sprinfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 16, 1820; son of Jesse and Amy
Stetson; came to Rochester with his family in 1841. Mr. Jesse Stetson
purchased two quarter sections in Secs. 1 and 4, and died in 1872. His
son, Allen, bought, in Secs. 5 and 6, a farm of 160 acres, in 1845, and
still carries it on successfully. The past year he has been raising a
very fine breed of hogs (Berkshire), and has been awarded first and
second premiums at the State and county fairs for them; he is also
raising Ayrshire cattle, and has taken the premiums at the State and
county fairs on these; wheat, corn and oats are other products of his
farm. He married Miss Emily, daughter of T. C. and Emily Hoyt, of
Rochester, April 8, 1845; they have had eight children- Alice Jane, Amy
A.; Charles A., died in 1855; George H., died in 1857; Eva E.; Clinton
A., died in 1876, Carrie L., Annie E. He was elected Supervisor in 1878;
Town Clerk for three years in 1869 religious views, liberal; Republican.