Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Stanley, William 1829 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    WILLIAM STANLEY, farmer, Sec. 22; P. 0. Kenosha; born Sept. 1, 1829, in
Essex Co., Vt.; came to Paris Township, Wis., in 1836. On arrival, Mr. Stanley's
father built a log house, which waB ready for occupation in one month; came to
Pleasant Prairie in the spring of 1837, and, in 1839, his father located on his
present farm, buying the improvements, which consisted of fencing, a log house
and three or four acres of plowed land. The farm now consists of 590 acres of
land, with large barns and a handsome homestead, which Mr. William Stanley
rebuilt and remodeled throughout in 1874. He raises all kinds of stock, and
makes a specialty of sheep; has 300 to 400 head. He also has a dairy, for which
he keeps from fitly to sixty head of cattle. Married Miss Mary E. Dabbs, of
Pleasant Prairie, Nov. 27, 1872, and has three children-Mary Edith, born March
19, 1874; John William, Jan. 14, 1876; Charles Frank, Aug. 18, 1878. Mr. S. was
Supervisor for Pleasant Prairie for 1877.

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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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