- REV. GEORGE F. BRONSON, Pastor Congregational Church; P.O.
Clinton Junction [see note
- below]; born January 21, 1821, in Middlebury, New
Haven Co., Conn.; was son of Leonard BRONSON, BRONSON died Feb.
16, 1869 in Middlebury, Conn., at the age of 72. Mr. George T.
BRONSON commenced his preparatory studies in the Phillips' Academy,
entered the seminary at East Windsor, and then attended Yale
College, spending seven years in especial study; was ordained
at Shelburne Falls, in the valley of the Deerfield, January,
1851; was there fourteen years; was successful in his ministry
in that place, building up a growing and prosperous congregation;
he had to retire on account of his health; was afterward in the
ministry five years in New York, then settled in Lake Co., Ohio,
and was there about ten years, and was afterward in Iowa about
three years; came to Clinton in September, 1872, and has been
the much- beloved Pastor of the Congregational Church in this
place ever since. Married, Sept. 30, 1850, Charlotte M. HOLT,
daughter of Thomas HOLT, of Andover, Mass.; have had five children,
two died in infancy. Leonard is a member of Beloit College, is
a member of the Sophomore Class; Mary, M. is about to graduate
at the High School in Beloit; Isaac A. is attending school in
Beloit.
-
- [Transcriber's note: Clinton was at first called Clinton
Junction by the two railroads that crossed here; it later became
Clinton, but the railroads still call it Clinton Junction to
this day.]
-
- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 776.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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