Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Houston, Robert S. 1820 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    ROBERT S. HOUSTON, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Kenosha; born Aug. 7, 1820, in
Charlemont, Franklin Co., Mass.; was a cutter by trade; went to Meriden, Conn.,
Jan. 18, 1851, and stayed about seven years, working for one company; left there
Sept. 15, 1857; reached Kenosha Sept. 25; bought eighty acres of land in
Pleasant Prairie; built his homestead and farm-buildings; now owns 361 acres of
land, principally devoted to pasture and to raising hay, corn and oats; he keeps
on an average about ninety head of Jersey cattle and their grades for dairy
purposes, making about fifteen thousand pounds of butter per annum. Mr. H. was
one of the first to ship cheese East for the market; he has taken five medals at
different times, the first four for butter, and the last for cheese-Centennial,
bronze; Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, silver; Wisconsin Dairymen's
Association, silver; Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, gold; Wisconsin State
Agricultural Society, silver. Married Miss Lucy M. Stone, of Whately, Mass.,
Jan. 24, 1849. Mr. H. is Treasurer of School District, and has been for nineteen
years; was Chairman and Side Supervisor of Pleasant Prairie for several years;
member of Legislature for 1874. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the Methodist 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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