Charles Roselip 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 Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 920

CHARLES ROSELIP, P.O. Platteville; is the owner of one of the oldest and best 
farms of Grant Co.; it is also historic, as it was here that Col. Joseph 
Dickson, the first owner, planted, in the year 1828, the first crop of corn 
grown by an Anglo-Saxon farmer in Wisconsin.  Col. Dickson disposed of the farm 
to Judge B. M. Orine, who erected a small house and made other slight 
improvements.  In 1848, John Roselip, a Prussian emigrant, bought the place of 
the Judge; he was the father of Charles Roselip, who was born Jan. 14, 1840, in 
Prussia; the son has owned the farm since 1865; beginning fifteen years ago with 
140 acres of the original 160, he has added 40 acres, grubbed and broken 70 
acres, erected, in 1875, a 30x40 feet basement barn, and, in 1877, built a 
tasteful frame farmhouse.  The old farm, originally prairie with the exception 
of a few acres, is now in a splendid state of cultivation, and the buildings are 
in striking contrast to those standing here during the Black Hawk war.  Mr. 
Roselip married Miss Anna, daughter of A. S. Lothman, of Platteville; she was a 
native of Hanover, and came to this country when she was about 15 years of age 
they have six children - John A. M., Lizzie, Minnie C., Charles H., Ellen C. and 
William D., all born in Platteville except the eldest.  Mr. Roselip spent 1864-
65 in the gold region of Montana.