Biography: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: William Beers

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Submitted by Kathy Grace, <gendiva@charter.net> August 2004

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William Beers, pattern-maker for C.J.L. Meyer; was born in Bristol,
England, in 1829, and came with his father, William Beers, to America when
10 years old; they settled at Syracuse, N.Y., where he afterward learned
the carpenter and joiner's trade; in 1855 he removed to Janesville, Wis.,
and in 1860 came to the city of Fond du Lac, where he worked in the
railroad car-shop for 12 years; in the spring of 1879 he began in the
pattern-room for Mr. Meyer, where he has since been employed.  In 1850 he
was married to Mary, a daughter of Abram Beers, of N.Y.; their children are
Julia, now the wife of A.T. Stewart, and lives in Minnesota; Ada, now Mrs.
William Gove, and lives in Minnesota; Robert C., who died in March, 1878;
Ella, unmarried and lives in Minnesota; Edwin, at home.  Mr. and Mrs. Beers
are members of the M.E. Church.

Transcribed from The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Chicago :
Western Historical Company, 1880 pg. 781