BIOGRAPHIES:  Robert GRANT, Gale Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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**Posted for informational purposes only. I am not related to the subject 
of this biography, nor do I have any further information on this family.

Robert Grant, a retired farmer now living in Gale Township,
Wisconsin, where he is well known and respected, was born near
Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 11, 1845.  His parents were Thomas and
Elizabeth (Gibb) Grant, who were natives of the same locality.  The
father in early life was a coal miner.  In 1851 he came to this
country with his family, locating at Peach Orchard, Lawrence County,
Ky., on the Big Sandy River.  There he resided for three or four year
at the end of which time he moved to Ohio.  A year later he made
another removal, this time to West Columbia, W. Va., where he spent
six or eight months.  He then came to Trempealeau County, locating on
the farm where his son Robert now lives, and here he was engaged in
agriculture until his death in 1869.  He and his family were among
the earliest settlers in this locality.  The mother survived her
husband 20 years, passing away in 1889.

Robert Grant was the third born in a family of four children.  In
his boyhood he attended the Grant school in the seventh district,
which was named for the family, his attendance, however, being short.
He resided with his parents until he was 21 years old, at which time
he went to Rock Island, Ill., where he engaged in mining, being thus
occupied, however, for but a short time, and at intervals spending
the summers on the home farm.  He thus continued until his marriage,
at which time he bought a part of his present farm.  Later he became
full owner of the homestead and engaged in general farming, from time
to time making necessary improvements, most of those now standing
having been put up by him.  About 1912 Mr. Grant turned over the farm
to his son-in-law, but still resides on it.  He is a stockholder in
the ARctic Springs Creamery Company, the Farmers Exchange Elevator
and the Independent Harvester Company, of Plano, Ill.

Nov. 3, 1868, Mr. Grant was married to Jane Dick, who was born in
Scotland, daughter of William and Rosana (Neil) Dick, her parents
coming to the United States in 1846.  He and his wife have seven
children:  Thomas, who is a farmer, single, and resided with his
parents; Rose Ann, widow of Louis Bornitz, residing in Winona, Minn.,
who has three children: Laura Marie, Robert LeRoy and Arvilla May;
Elizabeth Margaret, wife of Joseph Stellpflug; William D.; Mae Hazel,
wife of William Byrne, a farmer, who has three children: Maud
Eleanor, Edna Mae and Rose Bernice; Maud Eleanor, now deceased, who
was the wife of Alexander Schwartzhoff of Gale Township, and William,
who died in infancy.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," pages 503-504.



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