- HENRY PENTLAND, grocer, born in Ireland, in 1833; his parents
moved to Wisconsin in 1843,
- and located at Elkhorn, Walworth Co.; remained till 1853;
when he was 20 years of age, he left home and went to California
where he engaged in the shell-fish trade six years; he went from
California to Ireland, on a visit to his old home; in 1860 he
returned to Beloit, and in 1865, formed a co-partnership with
his brother William PENTLAND, in the grocery business; continued
until 1867, when he sold out his interest in the business and
formed another co-partnership with D. L. SIMMONS, under the firm
name of PENTLAND & SIMMONS, general grocers; they carry a
large and complete stock of everything in their line of business,
and have a large country trade among the surrounding farmers.
He married, in 1874, Mrs. A. F. BRIGGS, (widow of the late Edward
BRIGGS), and a native of New Hampshire.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 761.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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