- DAVID BROWN, farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Beloit; born in Lloyd,
N.Y., in 1818; his parents
- moved to Sullivan Co., N.Y., when he was 12 years old, where
he remained till he and his brother formed a partnership; went
to Ulster Co., N.Y., and entered into the lumber business; continued
there till 1865, then moved to Greene Co., N.Y., but only stayed
two years. He married, in Ulster Co., in 1847, Sarah VANLUVEN;
they had five children, three now living; only one - a daughter
- is living with him. In 1868, he came to Wisconsin and went
to Evansville, where he remained six months; then came to Newark
and bought 400 acres of land in Secs. 24 and 25, Newark Township,
eighty acres of which are in Sec. 30, Beloit Township, with residence
and improvements on Sec. 25, Newark; he made improvements, and
now occupies it.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 770.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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