- LEWIS HEALD, farmer Sec. 32; P.O. Shopiere; born in New York,
in 1811; came to Wisconsin
- in 1844, locating at Janesville; remained six months; he
then moved to Turtle and pre-empted 160 acres in Sec. 4, which
he sold in 1846; he then purchased a farm of forty acres at La
Prairie, his present homestead. Married, in 1834, Miss H. OLNEY,
a native of New York; they had eight children, four boys and
four girls; two girls and one boy dead; has been Justice of the
Peace fourteen years; Side Supervisor and Chairman of the Board
two years; Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 834-835.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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