Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....McDermott, Hugh 1820 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    HUGH McDERMOTT, born in Ireland in 1820; came to Wisconsin in 1849, locating
at Kenosha, where he went to work in the foundries of Campbell, Head & Co., and
Leonard & Tierney for seven years; then went to Kansas and located a farm,
remaining three years; returned to Kenosha in 1862; organized Co. B, 17th Wis.
V. I., and went to Madison, serving for three years; was with Sherman on his
march to the sea; in 1865, was promoted to Major of the 50th Wisconsin; served
eighteen months; was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and received an honorable
discharge at the end of the war; Oct. 3, 1863, was wounded at Corinth, for which
he receives a pension of $10 per month. Mr. McDermott has held every office that
the citizens of Kenosha Co. could bestow upon him. He was City Marshal three
years, City Treasurer six years, Alderman one term, Assessor two years, Chief of
Police one year, and Sheriff for two years. Married, in 1847, Miss Emma Cox, a
native of England. They have had three sons-Charles, engaged in the newspaper
business in Chicago; William, Deputy Sheriff, and John, who was drowned while
skating February, 1864. The Colonel has settled down to farming, having a
beautiful farm of eighty acres at Pleasant Prairie.

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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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