- JOHN DATES, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Beloit; born in Dutchess
Co., N.Y., in 1814; in 1833, he
- went to Chemung Co., N.Y., and remained there till 1841;
he then went to Rochester, N.Y., where he resided till 1844;
then came to Illinois and located near Rockford; came to Beloit
in 1845, and bought a farm, which he lived on for five years,
then sold it; he then bought sixty acres in Sec. 27, with residence
and barns, lived on it for eighteen years, then sold the property,
now in the city limits, to W. N. HAND; he then bought ninety-five
acres in Sec. 29, part of the KNILL farm and with residence and
barns, on which he made some improvements, and now occupies it;
afterward, sold thirty acres of the farm, and now owns only sixty-five
acres, with residence, etc. He married, in Rochester, N.Y., in
1842, Caroline VERVALIN, daughter of Isaac and Diana VERVALIN,
residents of Rochester; she was born at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in
1822; they had three children - George W., Alice M., and Frank
H.; George is a traveling salesman, and single; Alice is married,
and lives in Michigan; Frank is married, and is a traveling salesman;
George enlisted in the 22d Wis. Vol.; was taken sick one year
after, discharged, and re-enlisted in the 42d Wis., and was with
the regiment till the close of the war.
-
- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 743.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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