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- A. E. REIGART, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Beloit; born in Lancaster
- Co., Penn., May 14, 1822; son of E. C. REIGART, one of the
first and most respected settlers in that part of the county.
Mr. A. E. REIGART was extensively engaged in the tanning business,
and afterward run a saw-mill and lumber business; then engaged
in farming, and, in the spring of 1856, came to Turtle and loaded
on 440 acres, and now has a fine farm. Married Letitia MONTGOMERY,
March 5, 1850, daughter of John R. MONTGOMERY, a prominent lawyer
of Lancaster, Penn.; have had two children - Mary Catherine,
born Nov. 21, 1850 (married, Sept. 9, 1874, Mr. Victor WHITFIELD,
of Van Buren, Ark.); Emmanuel Carpenter, born June 13, 1853,
and is now in Clinton Junction, in business.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 807; lithograph from from "Rock County, Wisconsin,
Vol. I," p. 350.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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