- GEORGE H. WILLISTON, retired, born in Binghamton, Broome
Co., N.Y.; settled in Harmony
- Township, Rock Co., Wis., April 22, 1837 (on Sec. 17); remained
there till December, 1841, when he removed to Janesville, having
been elected that year Register of Deeds; was re-elected for
five years consecutively; he was in the grocery business about
two years; held the position of City Clerk from 1863 to 1870;
was Assessor several years; Mr. WILLISTON is still the owner
of most of the farm where he first located in this county. Married
Nancy A. FORDHAM, a native of Pennsylvania, April 1839; she came
to Rock Co. in June, 1839; had four children - Jennie E. (now
Mrs. NASH, of Dakota Territory), Clara H. (who resides with her
parents), Horace (Secretary of the Menominee River Lumber Co.,
and located in Chicago), William H. (also a resident of Chicago).
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 731.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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