- NATHANIEL WARREN, farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Beloit; born in Columbia
Co., N.Y., March
- 25, 1805; he lived there with his parents till 1826; came
to Milwaukee in 1844; to Newark in 1846; while in Milwaukee he
started the first marble-shop in the State of Wisconsin; he lettered
the corner-stone of the Beloit College, and also the stone in
front of the Baptist Church; he followed his trade till he came
to Newark and took up 120 acres of Government land, a claim to
which he bought; there was a log cabin on the ground, which he
occupied with his family till he built a frame residence which
was afterward burned down; he then built the residence he now
occupies, and still uses the old log cabin as a stable. He was
married in West Stockbridge, Mass., to Laura A. FITCH, and had
four children; his wife died in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1840, where
they had lived four years; he married again in Palmyra, the same
year, Eliza Ann, widow of C. B. HINMAN, and daughter of Gilbert
WILSON; they had four children, eight in all; five are now living;
only one son living at home with them. He was Chairman of the
Board in 1856, and Clerk of Baptist Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 775.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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