- JOHN ZUILL, farmer, Secs. 13, and 24; P.O. Johnstown; born
in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in
- 1818; came to Wisconsin in 1845, locating on the farm he
now owns of 480 acres. Married, in 1857, Miss Elizabeth PURVIS;
they have three children - William, John P. and David F. Democrat;
family attend Presbyterian Church. Mr. Z. makes a specialty of
thoroughbred short-horn cattle and is the most extensive breeder
in Johnstown Township, and probably in Rock Co.; he owns the
bull Byran Bartram, bred by C. C. Park, of Waukegan, Ill., which
took several sweepstake premiums at county fairs and at the Wisconsin
State fair; he has over twenty head of thoroughbreds and has
taken many premiums at Janesville, Beloit and Elkhorn.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 813.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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