Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Galt, Stephen 1819 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    STEPHEN GALT, fruit gardener, Sec. 7; P. O. Kenosha; born May 26, 1819, in
Aberdeen Co., Scotland; was a tailor by trade; came to America in 1850, and
located in Kenosha; worked at his business for six or seven years; moved to
Pleasant Prairie Township in the spring of 1857, where he bought seventeen acres
of land, six of which were laid out for fruit and vegetables; built his house,
cleared his land, and now has it in a state of excellent cultivation, growing
principally strawberries, raspberries and the finer kinds of vegetables, such as
asparagus, etc., for the market. He was the first in the county to raise
strawberries for that purpose, half an acre being looked upon as marvelous at
that time. Married Miss Margaret Trail, of Scotland, Sept. 16, 1847. He was Town
Clerk in 1857; is Clerk of school district, and has been for six years, and was
Director of school district for six years previously. Mr. and Mrs. Gait are
members of the Congregational Church. Mr. G. has been a total abstainer for
twenty-nine years, looking upon the use of intoxicating liquors with abhorrence.

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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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