- ARCHIBALD JACK, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Beloit; born in Ireland
Oct. 3, 1823; son of James
- JACK, who came to Turtle in January, 1846, and was one of
the oldest and most respected settlers. Archibald, in 1851,
bought 115 acres in Turtle, in Sections 33 and 34, and, through
industry and frugality, has a good home and is in comfortable
circumstances. Married Matilda FLETCHER, daughter of William
FLETCHER, Oct. 26, 1853; have had three children - Osbert W.,
born Nov. 14, 1854; Cora M., March 25, 1860; Frank M., Oct. 29,
1805. Osbert was graduated at Beloit College in 1877, and has
been teaching in Argyle. The FLETCHER family were among the
first settlers in the county; they have had several reunions,
one at Lowell, Mass.; several hundred assembled, and a finer
class of men and women were seldom brought together.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 805.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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