Alfred Hale Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Bloomington, Biographical Sketches, Page 949

ALFRED HALE, of the firm of Hale & Staley, groceries and sample room, 
Bloomington born in England in 1823; came to America, in 1851, and located in 
the town of Little Grant, Grant Co., where he engaged in farming; moved to 
Bloomington in May, 1879 and engaged in present business; one of the early 
English settlers of Grant Co.; held the office of Treasurer of the town of 
Little Grant for twelve years and Justice of the Peace two years. Married, in 
England, to Miss Sarah Webb, a native of England, by whom they have seven 
children -two sons and five daughters. A prominent member of I. O. O. F., and 
passed all the chairs; is a self-made man.