Joseph Banfield 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 Smelser, Biographical Sketches, Page 1015 

JOSEPH BANFIELD, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. St. Rose; owns 200 acres of land, valued 
at $50 per acre; born in Ireland in 1835; came to America in 1842, and settled 
in Canada; removed with his parents in 1844 to this county. In 1861, he settled 
on this farm and married Sarah Hyland, a native of Ireland; they have five 
children - Mary Ann, William A., Joseph C., Thomas F., Annie Kate.  Members of 
Catholic Church.