- WILLIAM ALVERSON, farmer Sec. 19; P.O. Beloit; born in Delaware
Co., N.Y., in 1811; in
- 1837, came West, visited Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities,
and, in 1844, took up eighty acres of Government land in Section
19, and brought his family here; he built a handsome residence,
with barns, etc. He married, in Chautauqua Co., N.Y., 1840, Rhoda
SNOW; they had five children, three now living, William H. C.,
Carrie M. and Jennie G. His family attend the Methodist Church.
His son, William H. enlisted for 100 days in the 4th Wis., was
afterward drafted and went to New York; George M. enlisted and
was at New Orleans with his regiment three years, was then discharged
and returned to Beloit, where he died in 1876. He now owns 240
acres in all.
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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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