- BARNEY MILLEN, farmer, Sec. 12; P.O. East Milton; born in
County Cavan, Ireland, in
- January, 1801; lived on a farm; he was deprived of a liberal
education, but he is a man of ability and strictly straightforward
and honorable in all of his dealings; he married in County Cavan,
Ireland, in April 1843, Miss Bridget MASTERSON, born in the same
county in 1819; they had six children, five living: John, born
in Ireland, January, 1844; Michael, born in Ireland, September,
1845; Margaret, born in Ireland 1848; Owen, born in Wisconsin,
1856; Eliza, born in Wisconsin, _______; Mr. MILLEN came to America
in 1851, located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, lived there from
Thanksgiving Day till June, 1851, when he came with is family
to Wisconsin, located at Rock Co., Harmony Township and engaged
at farming; he worked farm on shares for a few years with good
success; in 1860, he bought forty acres of land, on which he
is living; in 1864, he purchased eighty more acres adjoining,
ten of which is timber; he now owns altogether one hundred and
twenty acres of land which he has improved; raises a variety
of crops; takes an interest in tobacco raising, which is said
to be the most profitable crop in this part of the State; he
raises cows, horses, Poland-China and Berkshire hogs, Leicestershire
sheep etc.; he has on his place an excellent wind-mill, commodious
barns, etc.; Democrat; members of the Janesville Catholic Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 894.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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