Ora C. Richards 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 Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 895

ORA C. RICHARDS, Deputy Sheriff, Lancaster; is a native of the town of 
Fennimore, began life as a farmer, following that business until 14 years of 
age; he then attended school in Boscobel for about four years, and made rapid 
progress; at the age of 18 years, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Grant Co., 
and now holds the same position for the fifth year, being appointed in 1877.