- NATHANIEL B. HOWARD, farmer, Secs. 14, 15 and 22; P.O. Magnolia;
born June 11,
- 1806, in Oneida Co., N.Y.; carried on grocery business and
farming in Herkimer Co., N.Y., and ran a boat on the Erie canal.
In 1848, went from Buffalo to Chicago on a canal-boat, and ran
from there to Peoria and back till navigation closed. In the
fall of 1848, visited Wisconsin when it was a Territory; purchased
240 acres of land and moved on to it in the spring of 1849, and
built a house that summer; he has sold 200 acres of the original
purchase, but now owns seventy acres, and has deeded sixty acres
more to his son Cassius. His residence was built in 1847 by
Joseph PRENTICE. For several years, he dealt in produce, shipping
grain and stock to Chicago, and kept a store in Magnolia for
about two years. He took an active part in the late war, paying
bounties out of his own pocket to induce volunteers to enlist.
He had two sons there - Francis, in the 13th Wisconsin Infantry
for three years, principally in the Provost Marshal's office,
and Cassius; his son-in-law also fought for his country; he is
now dead. Mr. HOWARD married Miss Mary BOUCK, of Herkimer Co.,
N.Y., April 6, 1862; she was born June 15, 1807, in Sharon, Schoharie
Co., N.Y.; she died March 8, 1879; they had eleven children,
seven now living. He was Justice of the Peace of Magnolia about
ten years; Town Treasurer two years; chairman of Supervisors
eight years; Side Supervisor one year; member of State Legislature
in 1855 and 1862; Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 878-879.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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