- S. F. SANBORN, furniture dealer; born in Wheelock, Caledonia
Co., Vt., March 7, 1841; came
- West in 1848 and settled in Illinois, near Beloit, where
he farmed for four years; then came to Milton, Wis.; remained
four years, and thence to Sauk Co. six years; enlisted in fall
of 1863, in Co. G. 1st Wis. V.I.; was with Sherman in his march
from Ringgold to Atlanta, and was wounded in the battle of Jonesboro,
losing his right leg, after which he was transferred to Co. E.,
21st Wis. V.I.; mustered out May 25, 1865; after this, lived
for some time in Newville, town of Fulton; was proprietor of
a hotel at Ft. Atkinson one year; came to Janesville in 1874;
has been in present business one year. Married Cordelia M. HOWARD
Sept. 4, 1860; members of Methodist Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 721.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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