- ORSON COX, farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. Fulton Center; born in Steuben
Co., N.Y., in 1816; lived
- there till he was 4 years old; moved with his parents to
Cayuga Co.; lived there till he was 20, when he went to farming
for himself, in Seneca Co., for three years; leaving there, came
to Wisconsin May 7, 1842, and purchased eighty acres where now
stands his homestead; afterward adding, till now he owns 282
acres, and 161 acres one mile east, in all 443 acres. Married,
in 1846, Miss Laura ALLEN, daughter of Stephen ALLEN, of Jefferson
Co. Have three children - Mary F., William H., Henry W. Was Constable
and Collector at an early day, when that officer collected taxes.
Was Road Commissioner two terms, laying out the first roads in
the township. Republican; Universalist.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 844.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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