Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Whiteley, Joshua M. And M. J. 1805 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOSHUA M. and M. J. WHITELEY, farmers, Sec. 6; P. O. Kenosha. A duplicate
marriage certificate of the head of the Whiteley family, old settlers of
Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha Wis.: "This is to certify; that in the city of New
York, on the 9th day of April, in the year of Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-eight, the rites of matrimony were solemnized acording to law,
between Mr. Joshua Whiteley and Miss Mary Roberts, by me, James Davis, Pastor of
the W____ Church in this city." Mrs. Whiteley was born in Carnarvon Co., North
Wales; came to this country with her parents when but ten years of age; summer
of 1817, they landed in New York City; Roberts and his family subsequently
settled in the township of Steuben, Oneida Co., N. Y.; Mrs. Whiteey will be
favorably remembered by the older settlers of this section; few have met life's
responsibilities with more fidelity or fortitude than Mrs. W.; she was a
Christian and maintained her Christian integrity to the close of life's journey;
consumption, that gradually wore her out, carried her to her grave; her life was
useful, her end peaceful. Joshua Whiteley, Sr., was born Oct. 29, 1805, in
Yorkshire, England; came to Albany. N. Y., in the summer of 1826, and to
Wisconsin in 1838, with his wife and one child; four others were born in this
State; two are now dead; on arrival at Racine, Wis., they had to cross the wild
land to Pleasant Prairie; bought the claim before land was deeded; they moved
into a rough cabin in Bristol Township, without doors, windows or floor; wolves
and rattlesnakes quite plentiful, and they were frequently seen half a dozen at
a time; they afterward built one of the first log houses in Pleasant Prairie,
and their present homestead they erected in the spring of 1846; their mother was
a representative pioneer wife, and worked in the dairy making butter for the
market; she died Dec. 27, 1863; J. M. Whiteley and his sister own 263 acres of
land, and raise all kinds of stock and grain. Mr. J. W. was Roadmaster of
Pleasant Prairie for three years; held the office when the new bridge was built
over the creek, in 1874; he has been Steward of the Methodist Church for
seventeen years, of which he and his sister are members.

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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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