Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Stebbins, J. M. 1829 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    J. M. STEBBINS, attorney and Justice of the Peace; is a native of
Stillwater, N. Y., and was born in 1829. His father, Salmon Stebbins, was a M.
E. clergyman, and was sent from New York as a missionary to the West, in 1836.
He traveled from Chicago to Green Bay, and returned to Schoharie Co., N. Y.,
upon an Indian pony, making the long journey entirely on horseback. In May, 183_
the family located on a farm in Benton, Lake Co., Ill., where J. M. lived
seventeen years. In 1854, he came to Kenosha; was a clerk in a store for three
years, then engaged in the mercantile business for two years. In 1860, he was
elected Sheriff, and served two years. From 1863 to the fall of 1868, he was
engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and was again elected Sheriff in
1869 and 1870. In 1871, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he has
since held, with the exception of the year 1877. He was Alderman five years, and
member of the County Board for three or four years. He was admitted to the bar
in 1875.

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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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