WILLIAM A. STRATTON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 679 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WILLIAM A. STRATTON, farmer; P. O. Caldwell Prairie; born in Bennington,
Vt., July 10, 1810; son of Sheldon and Hannah Stratton. William A.
married Miss Susan F. Hunt, daughter of John P. and Alice Hunt. Wm. A.
and wife and one child (Henry Clay, born April 20, 1843) came to Racine
Co. Oct. 26, 1849; Mr. S. came out the 1st of May, and purchased eighty
acres on Sec. 3, Town 4, Range 19 east. now Waterford; he has now 225
acres, 35 on Sec. 2; raises grain and stock. He was elected Supervior in
1860. Is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow; family attends the Methodist
Church; politics, Republican.