Barnard McCormick Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

*****************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in 
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.  
Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the 
written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the 
submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this 
consent.
*****************************************************************************

Submitted by David W. Taft, dwtaft @ gmail.com

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Liberty, Biographical Sketches, Page 1030

BARNARD McCORMICK, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Lancaster; is one of the many 
respected citizens of Grant Co., Wis. ; ho was born in 1809 in Ireland ; he was 
a son of Martin and Bridget McCormick, of Ireland, with whom he lived until 21 
years of age, arid, in 1832, came to America, locating at Toronto, Can., for a 
short time, thence to New York for two years; he then wended his way westward to 
the city of Chicago, where he lived for one year; thence to Galena, Ill., for 
fifteen years, and followed mining; he then came to Liberty, Grant Co., where he 
has lived since. He was married, in 1839, to Alice Nailas, a daughter of Feral 
and Alice Nailas; they have eleven children - Martin, Bridget, John, Frank, 
James, Catharine, Mary Ann, Alice, Barnard, Margaret, William; he is the owner 
of 480 acres of land, valued at $9,600. Has been Road Overseer four terms; 
School Clerk three terms. Politics, Democratic, and a member of the Catholic 
Church.