- HUGH LEE, farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Beloit; born in Northumberland,
England, in 1803; came to
- Boston, Mass., in 1815; moved to Oneida Co., N.Y., where
he lived four years; then moved to Toronto, Canada, where he
was in the Canadian Government service as surveyor; he returned
to Oneida Co. and remained till 1825; then went to Delaware,
where he was engaged for nine years in contracting on the Chesapeake
and Delaware Ship Canal, the largest in the world; in 1834, he
was employed by the United States Government, as inspector of
stone and weighmaster on the Delaware breakwater, near Cape May,
which was completed in 1838; from that time up to 1842, he was
contracting and engineering on different railroads in the East
and West; in 1842, came to Wisconsin, located in Beloit, and
took up 640 acres Government land in Sec. 30, part of which he
has sold; he built residence and barns, and otherwise improved
it. He married, in Philadelphia, in 1829, Ann Jane KIRKBRIDE,
daughter of Capt. KIRKBRIDE (an active officer in the Revolutionary
war, as sea captain), and niece of Capt. David MOFFATT, a noted
man, and Master Warder of Port for twenty years; they had seven
children, four now living; four of his sons were in the late
war and were all honorably discharged; he was engaged in farming
until 1849, when he again entered public life and was engaged
on several Western railroads as engineer, contractor and surveyor;
also surveyed the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, and continued at this
business up to within a few years; he has now retired, and one
of his sons is working his farm.
-
- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 756.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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