- DANIEL P. FREEBORN, farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Milton; born in
Niagara Co., N.Y., May 2,
- 1825; son of Christopher and Mary FREEBORN; the early part
of his life was spent in Erie Co. Penn.; he came to Wisconsin,
October, 1845, and wintered in Cooksville, Rock Co., locating
in 1855, on the farm he now owns of 135 acres. Married Miss
Amy A. BURDICK Oct. 6, 1853; they have two sons - Oscar P., born
July 28, 1854, and Irwin L., born March 25, 1857. Mr. F. has
seen the country develop wonderfully; during his lifetime, it
has added all its railroads, telegraph lines, factories, and
most of its churches, schoolhouses, mills, etc. He is a strong
Republican. The family are members of the Seventh-Day Baptist
Church of Milton Junction. He is raising grade stock and the
usual crops; has also about thirty swarms of bees. His sons
own 160 acres on Section 19, where they have a greenhouse and
are raising a general stock of house and garden plants in their
season; they are also raising cattle, hogs and sheep, with the
usual crops of their county.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 791.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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