John Bray 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 

JOHN BRAY, Sec. 25; P. O. Cuba City; owns 75 acres of land, valued at $50 per 
acre; born in Cornwall, England in 1829; came to America in 1836, and settled 
with his parents in Mineral Point he settled on his present farm in 1857.  
Married Mary Reed, a native of the same place; they have three children - W. 
Howard, Thirza A., J. Morgan. Are members of the Free Methodist Church.