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

    DERASTUS TORREY, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Pleasant Prairie; born Jan. 11,
1820, in Centerville, Allegany Co., N. Y., where he was a farmer; in the spring
of 1866, he came to Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha Co., Wis., and took charge of
Truesdell's farm of 1,100 acres. He bought his farm in the spring of 1872, and
owns 335 acres of land. He repaired the house, built his cheese factory, and
manufactures about twenty tons per annum. On the farm, he raises all kinds of
grain and stock, keeping about sixty cows for his factory. Married Miss Jane
Knowlton, of Centerville, N. Y., June 3, 1845, and has three children-A. E.
Torrey, born Nov. 3, 1847; Herbert C., May 1, 1857: Allen J., Jan. 3, 1861. Mr.
T. has been Assessor of Taxes in New York, and is Supervisor of Pleasant Prairie
for 1879. He held this office once before.

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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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