Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Holt, Lauren C. 1864 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    LAUREN C. HOLT, retired farmer; was born  in Waterbury, Conn., May 13, 1864
and came to Yankee Settlement, between Chicago and Joliet, in August, 1835: to
Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Oct of the same year, and lived there that and the
following winter. He then made a claim on the northwest quarter of Sec. 28, east
quarter of northeast quarter of Sec. 29-240 acres. There he lived until 1869,
when he came to Kenosha. He was Assessor of Pleasant Prairie for several years,
and was Deputy Postmaster there when the mail was carried between Chicago and
Milwaukee but twice a week. On the 8th of March, 1838, he married  Emma 
Derbyshire, a native of Westfield. Chautauqua Co., N. Y.; they have had four
children, one son deceased, Charles Francis, who died 27th of February, 1878, in
Pleasant Prairie. The living are Christopher D., who married Miss Rugg, and
lives on the old homestead; Joseph C. and Louisa A., now Mrs. E. L. Rugg. The
parents of Mrs. Holt, Christopher Derbyshire, a native of England, and Emily T.
Derbyshire afterward Mrs. King, were early settlers here. He located a claim in
Pleasant Prairie, in 1835, and died in Milwaukee in March, 1839, at the time of
the land sale. His wife married Mr. King in 1851. He died in Kenosha in 1868,
but she still lives at an advanced age.

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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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