Stephen Kenison Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dwtaft @ gmail.com

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Liberty, Biographical Sketches, Page 1030

STEPHEN KENISON, mason, Fennimore; born in 1821 in Canada; was a son of Benjamin 
and Tina Kenison; he lived with his parents until ii years of age; he then lived 
with his uncle Stephen Hays; he then went to Massachusetts for three years and 
six months; then to Franklin Co., Vt., for thirty-five years and six months, 
following farming; he then emigrated to Grant Co., Wis., in 1879, locating in 
Fennimore for two years; then to Liberty, where has lived since. He was married 
in 1828, to Elizabeth Lathan, a daughter of Joseph and Angeline Lathan, of 
Vermont; has had seven children - Dudley F., Myron S., Mary J., Eunice M., Sarah 
J., Ella L., Charles F. His politics, Democratic, and is a member of the 
Catholic Church.