JOHN SUMPTER - 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.

JOHN SUMPTER, farmer and mill owner, Union Grove; born in Lincolnshire,
England, April 26, 1818; left England in 1854, and came to Yorkville,
landed at Racine, June 2, 1854; family came in 1856 ; was first at
Liberty Corners, then went to Dover, thence to Brighton; afterward,
settled on 240 acres in Yorkville; bought a farm of 204 acres in Dover,
in 1867; afterward went to Eagle Lake, and finally settled in Union
Grove, in April, 1874; now has a comfortable home and 57 acres in
Yorkville, and 200 acres in Dover. He and his sons are extensively
engaged in flour-milling. Married Mary Ann Cheeseman, Aug. 12, 1841,
aged 20 years and 5 months; their children are- Mary Ann, born in
England April 23, 1842; Bartholemew, in England, in October, 1843: John,
Jr., in England, Jan. 4,1845; Fanny, Oct. 6. 1847; James, June 24, 1848;
William, Aug. 1, 1851; Alfred, Oct. 16, 1853; Bartholomew died in
England, in December, 1844; Edwin, born in Dover, Wis., Dec. 31, 1856;
Samuel, Oct. 15, 1858; George H., Nov. 24, 1860; Emma L., Sept. 8, 1862;
Alexander, Sept. 6, 1864; buried James Sumpter, May 26, 1874.