SAMUEL H. SKEWES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 657 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

SAMUEL H. SKEWES, merchant, Union Grove; born in Cornwall, England, in
1917; came to Milwaukee in 1842, to Yorkville, Nov. 9, 1842. Married in
Cornwall, England, April 16, 1842, Mary Thomas, then a resident of
Cornwall; when he first came to Yorkville, he was carpenter and builder
by trade, and had worked in Milwaukee for Mr. Church, a contractor and
builder; he followed his trade here for fifteen years until 1857, and
then engaged in farming; was appointed Agent and Trustee of the Union
Grove Land Co., for the sale of land owned by them, and for the last
five years, has been engaged in the agricultural machinery business. Mr.
Skewes was one of the first settlers of this town; when he came here
there was only a shanty sixteen feet square in the whole village, which
shanty has stood a relic of old times until the 12th of April, 1879,
when it burned down, with several other stores and dwellings. His wife
died in May, 1865, and is buried in Yorkville. He married again in
Lyons, Iowa, in December, 1873, Caroline Goldsworthy, a resident of
Yorkville; she also died, Dec. 29, 1876, and is buried in Yorkville; has
two children- Ella and Howard. Ella married, in 1873, Frank Adams, of
Paris, Wis.