BIOGRAPHIES:  James HALLSWORTH, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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JAMES HALLSWORTH, hardware merchant, Pepin, was born in England, March
28,1842. His father, George A. Hallsworth. came to the United States in
1856, and resided in Atsionville, N. J., then moved to Pittsfield,
Mass., where he died, in 1859. James enlisted in Co. H, 17th Mass. Vol.
July 22, 1861, and was mustered out in August, 1864. His regiment was
in the 18th Army Corps. After he left the army, he went to work at his
trade, as overseer of weaving-room, in woolen mill, at Louisville, Ky.,
and at other places until he came to Pepin, in 1877, and engaged in the
hardware business. He was married, Dec. 7, 1866, to Miss Agnes West, of
Findlay, Ohio. They have one child living, Lawrence.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 704


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