Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Mathews, James 1826 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JAMES MATHEWS, retired; born in 1826, in Ireland; came to Wisconsin in 1849,
locating at Kenosha, where he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes for
James Reilly, for eight months, then bought out Mr. Reilly and continued the
business alone for five years; in 1854, opened a confectionery store, afterward
adding groceries and dry goods; June, 1878, sold out to his son Frank and
William O'Brien. Married, in 1849, Miss Bridget Gibbens, a native of Ireland;
they have had seven children, three boys and four girls. Members of the Catholic
Church; Democrat.

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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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