- C. M. MESSER; born in New Hampshire, in 1811; came to Chicago
in 1835, and remained
- among the Indians there till about July, 1837 and then came
to Beloit; in the fall of that year he bought a claim to eighty
acres Government land, and then squatted on eighty acres timber
land; he built a log house on the timber land and lived in it
during the winter of 1837-38, and, in the spring of 1838, moved
into the village of Beloit, and followed his business of carpenter
and joiner, but was principally engaged in land surveying, dividing
and tracing the Government lines, which business he has followed
up to a few years ago; about 1840, he built a small frame residence,
which he lived in until 1867, and then built a large farm house,
which he now occupies; in 1841, he returned East and was married,
in New Hampshire, to Abigail LOOMIS, and then returned to Beloit;
they have four children -Frank, Fred, Charles and Ella. Before
the city was organized he was Highway Commissioner and holds
the office still.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 758.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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