- EUGENE K. FELT, farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Beloit; the son of
Asa G. FELT, one of the earliest
- settlers of this township, who was born in New Hampshire
in 1793, and married in Monroe Co., N.Y., in 1816, Harriet FOSTER,
a resident of Monroe Co.; they had ten children; five are now
living; Eugene K., the youngest. Mr. Asa FELT came to Wisconsin
and located in the town of Newark in June, 1846; he bought a
claim to Government land, which he entered and paid for, and
then bought large tracts of land, all unimproved, about four
hundred acres in all; he built a log cabin and lived in it until
1857, when he built the residence now occupied by his son Eugene;
He sold all his land he then owned to this son, then a resident
of Winnebago Co., Ill., and owning a farm there which he sold
and came to Newark and took charge of this farm, his father and
mother both living with him in the house; his father died in
this house on January 12, 1871, and his mother died there also
in February, 1876; both were in the 80th year of their age.
Eugene K. as born in Webster, Monroe Co., N.Y., April 11, 1838;
he received a common-school education in Newark and Beloit, being
only 8 years old when his parents moved here; in 1871, he was
elected Chairman of the Board of Supervisors; re-elected in 1872,
1873 and again in 1877 and 1878; he was also elected in 1872,
to the Legislature from the Beloit or Fourth District; first,
in opposition to John HACKETT, receiving a vote of 556 against
154, and in 1872, in opposition to J. L. V. THOMAS, receiving
a vote of 1019 against 285. He married in Jefferson, Green Co.,
Wis., May 16, 1861, Miss Libbie MORRIS, formerly a resident of
Monroe Co., N.Y.; they have eight children, all living at home
with them. He now owns 280 acres of land in Sec. 24 with residence,
barns and all improvements.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 771.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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