Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Woodworth, Lafayette D. 1823 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    LAFAYETTE D. WOODWORTH, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Kenosha; born May __ 1823, in
Chittenden, Essex Co., Vt.; went to Hartland, Niagara Co.. N. Y., for eighteen
months; in his 20th year, gave his father $60 for his time, and in 1844 came to
Bristol Township, Kenosha Co., Wis., and worked for Harmon & Marsh for eighteen
months, then bought a farm of sixty acres, which he gradually increased to 184
acres. During the years 1851-52, Mr. W. was in California, successfully gold
mining; was in Beloit, Wis., from 1868 to 1870; bought ten acres of land and a
house and lot, which he afterward sold; went back to Bristol Township in 1872,
and stayed till 1875, when he sold his property, moved to Pleasant Prairie and
bought his farm of 305 acres, upon which he raises all kinds of grain and stock.
Married Miss Eliza Smith, of Kenosha Co., Nov. 31, 1846, and have eight
children-Fran__ A., born Oct. 9, 1847; Mary, July 12, 1850; Joel N., March 11,
1852; Emily, Sept. 27, 1859; Harvey P., April 26, 1861; Lilly May, Oct. 17,
1864; William, Oct. 7, 1867; Lafayette D., May 31,18__. He was Roadmaster for
several years, both in Bristol and Pleasant Prairie Townships, and School C___
for both townships. He and his family are members of the Free 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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