- HENRY PENTLAND, who is now retired from active business and
resides at 524 Broad street,
- Beloit, Wis., was born in County Down, Ireland, on September,
11, 1833. His parents were William and Agnes (CLARK) PENTLAND,
who in 1843 came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in Geneva
Township, Walworth county, where they lived until their death,
the father at the age of sixty-two years and the mother at fifty-six
years of age. The father was buried at Geneva and the mother
at Kenosha.
- Henry was raised on his father's farm and received his education
in the common schools of
- Walworth county. In 1853 he went to California in search
of gold and remained there for six years, when he returned to
his native land and spent six months in the town of Newtownards.
At the expiration of this time he came back to America and located
at Beloit, where he engaged in the grocery business at 325 State
street, which he conducted for thirty-two years, retiring from
active business in 1899.
- Mr. PENTLAND is one of Beloit's oldest and most respected
citizens, having made this city his
- home for nearly half a century. He was married at Beloit
in 1872 to Mrs. A. F. BRIGGS, a native of New Hampshire, who
died in 1892. He again married in 1894, Mrs. Margaret M. COCHRANE,
who is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 825-826.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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