- S. J. MINER, farmer, Sec. 9; P.O. Shopiere; born in Lancaster,
Erie Co., N.Y., Nov 9, 1832;
- son of Jacob R. MINER, a farmer on the Holland Purchase;
was of old German stock, and died at the age of 71. His father
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mr. S. J. MINER has
now in his possession an iron bake-kettle, which was the first
one used by white folks in Herkimer Co., N.Y.; Mr. MINER went
to Chicago in the fall of 1836, and was among the first settlers.
Was there when Stone was executed, the first man hanged in Chicago.
He sailed on the lake seven years, and was on the Illinois Canal
several years. Among the early setters in Chicago at the time
Mr. MINER went there [with] Wentworth, Hubbard and Sherman; Steel
was Sheriff at the time. He came to Wisconsin in 1850, to Jefferson
Prairie, town of Bradford, and settled on 161 acres; was there
till 1878. Then, in March, went to Turtle and bought 59 acres.
Married Elizabeth BARNUM, a daughter of George N. BARNUM, of
Walworth Co., June 23, 1859. Have had six children - Dora (living
at home); Katie (married Mr. LAWRENCE, and is living in Turtle),
Nettie J. and George (going to school), Frances and Eva Irene
(at home). Mr. MINER rode on that first car that ran on West
Madison street, Chicago. There was a blacksmith-shop on the
corner of Randolph and Clark streets when Mr. MINER first went
to Chicago.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 806.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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