- JOSEPH PENNINGTON, farmer, Sec. 34 [Newark Twp.]; P.O. Beloit;
born in Yorkshire,
- England, in 1826; came to America and located in Chicago
in 1847, where he remained one year, and then went to Rockford,
thence to Rockton and back to Chicago, where he lived till 1857;
then came to Newark. He owned eighty acres in Sec. 34, that he
bought some years previously, and when he came to Newark, lived
in a log house that he rented until he built a frame residence.
He married, Dec. 25, 1855, in Chicago, Emma STAINER; they had
nine children, five now living. He now owns 120 acres of land,
with residence, barns and all improvements.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 773.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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