MARTIN BEARDSLEY - Biography

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This biography appears on page 676 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

MARTIN BEARDSLEY, farmer; P. O. Waterford; born in Cass Co., Mich., Dec.
18, 1831; son of Elam and Naomi Beardsley, who came to Racine County in
1835, and located in Caledonia; made a claim on 160 acres. Mr. Elam
Beardsley came to Racine in 1834, made his claim and returned to
Michigan for his wife and son, Martin. Traded his farm for one in
Waterford, on Section 21, now called the Old Homestead. Martin bought
fifteen acres on the same section, and has since added eighty-five acres
to it and owns a farm of 100 acres. He married Miss Elizabeth Mygatt,
daughter of Philip R. and Sarah Mygatt, Feb. 15, 1855; they have one
child- Flora J., born Dec. 3, 1855; married Wm. A. Cooper, of Waterford,
July 29, 1877. Mr. Beardsley went to California in 1850- crossed the
plains; returned in 1852; being a mechanic he started a blacksmith shop,
and also the carpenter and joiner business; has built some very fine
buildings in this section of the country. He enlisted Aug. 25, 1864, in
Co. A, 43d Regt. Wis. V. I., under Capt. E. D. Lowery; was sent to
Nashville, Tenn., thence to Johnsonville, finally stationed at Deckerd,
doing picket duty; he was in many light engagements but no regular
battle; was discharged July, 1865.