- ISAAC HILL, farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. Beloit; born in Barnston,
Canada East, October, 1819;
- remained there until 1844, then went to Beloit City, and
worked at his trade of stone-mason till 1851; he owned three
lots in the city, and built a residence on Fourth street, which
he afterward sold; also owned forty acres of land in Section
36, built residence and barns, and made all improvements; there
was a log house on it when he bought it, which he now uses as
a barn; he afterward bought forty acres more in same section,
which he now owns, making eighty acres in all. He married, in
Baxford, Canada East, in 1836, Abbie P. GILLMAN. They had eleven
children, six of whom are now living. He has been Justice of
the peace, also constable for several years, and is till working
at his trade of masonry.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 772.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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