- DAVID A. RICHARDS, carpenter and veterinary surgeon; P.O.
Lima Center; born in Genesee
- Co., N.Y., in 1828; came to Wisconsin in 1858, and settled
in Rock County. Married Miss Susan CARPENTER in 1846, who died
in 1871, leaving three children - Clara S., Charles A., and George
H. Ida B. is his daughter by his second wife, Miss Sophronia
SWEET, whom he married in 1872, and who died in 1873. Mr. RICHARDS
married Mrs. Mary J. COWLES in 1874, who has four children by
her first husband - Alton L., Willie T., Annie E. and Inez .
He is a Republican, a Master Mason, and member of the M.E. Church
of Lima. He had a natural taste for building, and learned his
business as carpenter and joiner at the age of 20. He planned
and framed a number of buildings before he was 20. Makes a specialty
of joiner work, and built the old hotel at Milton Junction, also
the residence of I. P. BULLIS, in company with Mr. WEAVER of
Milton.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 794.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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