Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Gillett, Guerdon 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    GUERDON GILLETT, Justice of the Peace; is a native of Madison Co., N. Y.;
when he was quite young, his parents moved to Cortland Co.; he lived there and
in Cayuga Co., N. Y., until he came to Wisconsin in 1848; he settled on Sec. 29,
Wheatland Township, and engaged in farming, when Randall and Wheatland Townships
were included in Wheatland. He taught several terms in country and city schools;
was elected Register of Deeds, and served two terms, from 1852 to 1856, and
again from 1858 to 1860; he has been Alderman from his Ward several terms, and a
member of the Board of Education. He married Susannah Atwater, a native of
Cayuga Co.; they have three children-Lucy Augusta, Anna E. and John. Mrs.
Gillett is a member of the Congregational Church.

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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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