Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Willerton, Charles H. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    CHARLES H. WILLERTON, farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Kenosha; born May.25, 18__ in
Kirby Lathorpe, Lincolnshire, Eng.; went into the dry goods and grocery business
in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire; came to Log City, Madison Co., N. Y., in 1853, and
was in business as a butcher; came to Wisconsin in 1855; located in Pleasant
Prairie Township, buying two and one-fourth acres of land, afterward increasing
it to five; he returned to England on a visit in 1864, and, in 1865, purchased
his present farm of eighty acres, on which he raises all kinds of grain and
stock, making a specialty of sheep; in the fall, he butchers cattle for the
Kenosha market. He entirely remodeled and enlarged his homestead in 1866, and in
that and the following year planted about two hundred apple trees, which are now
yielding handsomely. Married Miss Mary Ann Saunders, of Cork, Ireland, May 27,
1868. They are members of the Methodist Church.

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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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