John Wesley Whitt 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 Hickory Grove, Biographical Sketches, Page 1044

JOHN WESLEY WHITT, farmer, Secs. 25 and 26; P. O. Blue River; he is a son of 
Meredith and Sarah Atkins, natives of Virginia; they left their native State and 
located in Kentucky; in 1842, they came to this State and located in this 
county.  John W. was born in Kentucky in 1834; he came to this State with his 
parents, since which time he has been engaged in farming and lumbering.  He 
married, Nov. 25, 1857, Miss Sarah B. Lea, a native of Ohio; they have three 
children.