- SIMEON S. REED, farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Evansville; born April
19, 1815, in Orleans Co., N.Y.;
- went with his parents to Chautauqua Co., N.Y., in 1827. In
1833, they moved to Gesuga Co., Ohio, where he worked on his
father's farm until 1835, when he returned to Orleans Co. and
worked out. He afterward went back to Ohio, and bought a farm.
After traveling through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Missouri,
he stopped at Cherry Valley, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and bought
a farm there. In the fall of 1845, he came to Wisconsin, and
took up sixty-eight acres of Government wild land, in what is
now Magnolia Township, Rock Co., and built the third log house
in this neighborhood. He now owns 120 acres of land, and raises
all kinds of grain and stock. At various periods he has added
to and improved the homestead, which was built by G. & A.
T. MORROWS, in the spring of 1856. Married Miss Adeline OLDS,
of Ohio, June 18, 1844. Has three children - George H., Lucy
A. and Franklin D. He was Constable one year; Justice of the
Peace, Supervisor and Assessor several times. They are members
of the Congregational Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 880.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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