- RUFUS WASHBURN, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Beloit; born in Jefferson
Co., N.Y., April 26,
- 1807; in 1837, he went to Maumee, Ohio; remained there one
year, then went to Chicago and worked on the Illinois Canal;
in 1839, he came to Beloit to look at land; then returned to
Ohio, and, in 1841, went back to Jefferson Co., N.Y., where he
remained one year sick; in 1842, he came to Rock Co., and bought
560 acres land in Rock Township, in partnership with his brothers
William and Charles WALKER; he resided there till 1864, and then
came to Beloit and bought eighty acres land in Section 3, Beloit
Township, and also thirty acres in Plymouth; there was a stone
house partly built on the eighty-acres lot which he finished
and now occupies; he and his brother improved and broke all the
land from the woods to his south line. He married, in Otsego
Co., N.Y., in 1851, Olive A. NEWTON, and they had three children
- Elizabeth L., Mary E. F. and Amasa W.; Elizabeth married J.
C. F. WAITE, and lives with her father; the others are single
and remain at home.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 769.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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