- WILLIAM ALEXANDER, farmer; Secs. 9, 10, 15 and 22; P.O. Lima
Center; born in Roxbury
- Co., Scotland, in 1825. At the age of 27, he resolved to
seek his fortune in the New World and landed at New York in 1852;
came to Rock Co. the same year and settled on the farm he now
owns of 325 acres in 1857. Married Miss Mary A. GOODFELLOW in
1851; they have five children - William G., John H., Janette
I., Mary A. and Thomas. He is a Republican. Has served as Director
of the Limatown Insurance Co. since its organization in 1872.
He bought his farm unbroken, and has improved it and made it
valuable. The family are members of the Lima Presbyterian Church.
He brought but little with him and now owns a large and valuable
farm, has an intelligent family and may justly consider his life
a success.
-
- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 789.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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