George Blackbourn 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 Beetown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1018

GEO. BLACKBOURN, farmer, P. O. Lancaster; born in 1799, in England, where he 
lived up to 1846, when he emigrated to America, and settled in La Fayette Co., 
Wis.; in 1856, he moved to Grant Co., where he has since lived; he has a farm of 
300 acres. He was married at the age of 27, in England, to Miss Nevitte; they 
had nine children; two of his sons were in the late war; one of them was wounded 
in battle. Mr. Blackbourn is a Republican in politics, and a member of the M. E. 
Church.