- A. R. PECK, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Beloit, born in Litchfield
Co., Conn., in 1829; his parents
- moved to Livingston Co., N.Y., when he was 8 years old; in
1842, they came to Beloit and his father, Charles PECK, bought
eighty acres of Government land in Section 13, and afterward
120 acres more in Sections 13, 14, a total of 200 acres, which
he sold to his son, Augustus R. PECK, in 1873. He died in Sacramento,
Cal., August 4, 1875, and his remains were brought back and buried
here. His wife died here in 1868. Augustus R. married, in Middletown,
Orange Co., N.Y., in 1871, Lydia KIRK; has no children. He built
the residence he lives in, with barns, etc., and made all improvements.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 761.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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