- CAPT. WILLIAM MACLOON, real estate; born in town of Bath,
Commonwealth of
- Massachusetts, Province of Maine, Nov. 20, 1807; son of Ebenezer
and Elizabeth MACLOON; came to Rock Co., from Boston, in 1845,
and settled at Janesville, after having sailed the ocean as master
of many vessels for years in general freighting business between
Boston, the South of Europe and the West Indies, also in the
cotton trade form New Orleans to Buenos Ayres, Cape of Good Hope,
Soldina Bay, Bahia, St. Thomas, and back to Boston; on his last
trip on the Atlantic he lost the bark Juan, on the south side
of Cuba, from Montego Bay bound to Gagua to fill up for Bremen
- (on the coral reefs); he was part owner; he made a purchase
of a saw-mill situated on Rock River, at Janesville, and continued
there till 1853; built his present residence in 1846, the first
substantial frame house west of the river, and no doubt it was
built after the ship-builders' style, to stand the gales, and
weather the storms of ages; there is not a crack or a rent in
it; in 1853, he entered the real-estate business; purchased a
quarter-section in Town 3, Range 12, Sec. 33, in 1845, and has
been improving it since; he raises horses, sheep, cattle and
hogs; owns the Philadelphia Drug Store building and Postoffice
building one-half with O. B. FORD. Married, in 1832, Miss Christianna
BENNETT; have two children - William H. Harrison and Helen A.;
family attend the Congregational Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 714.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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