Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Brande, Robert Butcher 1826 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    ROBERT BUTCHER, general trader, Sec. 7; P.O. Kenosha; born July 22, 1826, in
Norfolk, England, where he was a merchant and farmer; came to America in 1864;
remained one year in Chicago, then settled in Pleasant Prairie; he farms 100
acres of land, but makes a specialty of market gardening, devoting about ten
acres to that purpose; he does the largest poultry business in the State of
Wisconsin, and has just erected a refrigerator to hold 4,000 turkeys, etc.,
which in that will keep good all the year round; he has also lately built a
hot-house and grapery to grow early vegetables for the Chicago.

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Extracted from:

THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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