- OTIS BASS, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Beloit; born in Windham Co.,
Conn., in 1814; in 1837, moved
- to Hillsdale Co., Mich., and remained there nine years, farming;
in 1846, he came to Beloit and bought forty acres land in Sec.
7; he built residence and barns, and otherwise improved it.
He married, in Michigan, in 1841, Sarah L. WILLIAMSON; they had
seven children, four now living - Elizabeth, Melissa, George
O. and Chester. Mr. BASS owns 140 acres land in Sections 7 and
8, all improved.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 733.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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