- FREEMAN BACON, farmer, Secs. 3 and 4; P.O. Janesville; born
in January, 1806, in
- Barnstable Co., Mass., where he received a good common-school
education; has always been a farmer. Married, in Barnstable
Co., Mass., in 1826, Miss Rebecca LARKIN, born in Newport, R.I.,
in 1804; they had eight children, four now living - Frank, Betsey,
Victor and Rebecca; their mother died in Harmony Township in
1846. Mr. BACON, with his wife, went form Massachusetts, in
1834, to Monroe Co., N.Y.; in 1844, he started for the Badger
State; arrived here in Wisconsin in the fall; immediately located
in what was then Janesville (now Harmony) Township, where he
and his brother Owen together bought 360 acres of land; the same
year, Freeman pre-empted 120 acres of land, which increased in
value, and he sold it in 1850; a few years afterward, the brothers
divided their property, his brother Owen taking 200 acres, and
Freeman the remaining 160, which he some time afterward disposed
of, and bought 240 acres where he now lives; he has improved
the farm, made fences and built barns, etc.; he raises grain,
vegetables and stock - Jersey and Durham cattle, sheep, Poland-China
hogs (called the prettiest hogs in this section of the country),
Black Hawk breed of horses, etc. He was one of the prime movers
in building the schoolhouse in district No. 6, Harmony Township;
he contributed the land and some money toward its completion.
-
- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 890.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
|