Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Morehouse, Frank B. 1845 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    FRANK B. MOREHOUSE, engineer; born in New York in October, 1845; came to
Wisconsin in 1850, locating at Pleasant Prairie, where the early part of his
life was spent on his father's farm; at the age of 14, he commenced sailing;
continued for thirteen years; in 1864, passed his examination and received his
certificate as engineer; was on a passenger boat on the Upper Wolf River for
three years; at present is engineer of the steam pump in connection with the N.
W. R. R. tank at Kenosha; in 1862, enlisted on the boat Carondelet; he held the
commission of Quartermaster; was wounded, in 1863, by the dismounting of a gun.
Married, in 1862, Miss Mary Spades, a native of Wisconsin; they have one
daughter-Jennie. Members of the Methodist Church; Republican.

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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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