- GEORGE SHAW, farmer, Secs. 31 and 32; P.O. Afton and Beloit;
born in 1822, near Longford,
- Ireland; came to America and to Beloit in 1849, and settled
on the farm he now owns of 576 acres in towns of Rock and Beloit.
Married Miss Catharine LONEY in 1851; they have seven children
- Charles L., Alexander, William, Jane, George, Ann and Kittie.
Himself and wife are members of the Grange. Has a herd of Durham
grade cattle, also Norman, Clyde and English horses, thirteen
in all; 100 Leicester sheep, Poland and Chester White hogs. Republican.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 798.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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