- WILLIAM N. HAND, farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Beloit; born in Grafton
Co., N.H., in September,
- 1814; his mother, Mary HAND, died there in 1869; his father
died there in September, 1823; he left home after his father's
death, and lived with an uncle and worked on his farm five years,
he then went to another farmer and worked three years for him;
went thence to Washington Co., N.Y., where he learned his trade
of blacksmith; he worked at his trade in Benton, Bath and other
places in New Hampshire, and then went to Chicopee, Mass., where
he worked for the Ames Manufacturing Company for eight years,
at Collinsville; worked for the Collins Manufacturing Company
for sixteen years; in 1860 came to Beloit and bought sixty acres
of land in Sec. 27 from John DATES, Mr. DATES still working the
farm; Mr. HAND then returned to Collinsville. He married, in
Bath, N.H., in 1838, Eliza A. GOODWIN, daughter of Ezra and Sarah
GOODWIN; she was born in Bath, N.H., in 1814; was reared and
married there. Mr. HAND returned to Beloit in 1868, with his
family, and went to live on his farm in Sec. 27, bought in 1860;
they had four children, three now living - Oscar E., Orvie E.
and Willie A. Oscar is married, and lives in Michigan; Orvie
E. married William E. THOMPSON, and resides in Beloit; Willie
is unmarried, and owns a photograph gallery in Janesville. Oscar
enlisted in 1862, in 1st Conn. Heav. Art.; was with his regiment
three years, and honorably discharged at Fort Willard, Va., Sept.
25, 1865.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 751.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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