- A. W. HANAFORD, machinist, Eclipse Wind Mill Company; was
born in Enfield, Grafton Co.,
- N.H., Jan. 14, 1818, and came to Wisconsin July 5, 1849,
locating at Beloit; he moved from Enfield to Underhill, Vt.,
where he received his education, and also engaged in farming;
the last two years, farmed on his own account; in 1845, he moved
to Manchester, N.H., where he learned the machinist's trade by
serving four years as apprentice; he then came to Beloit, where
he was engaged in a general jobbing-machine shop for ten years;
was also in Chicago and Rockford for three or four months; then
engaged with PARKER & STONE in the reaper works as machinist;
then in the MERRILL & HOUSTON iron works for two years and
a half, and then in Mr. OLMSTED's shop for three years at wind-mills,
and finally with the Eclipse Wind-Mill Company as machinist,
where he is now engaged; in Underhill, he held the office of
Road Commissioner one year. Mr. HANAFORD married, April 10,
1843, Rosamond DAVIS, of Stanstead, Canada; has one child - Addie
Stoddard. Mr. and Mrs. HANAFORD are members of the First Congregational
Church at Beloit.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 750-751.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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