- MARTIN R. CASE, hotel proprietor, Evansville; born in Onondaga
Co., N.Y., Jan. 21, 1837;
- his father, Reuben CASE, was born in the State of New York,
Feb. 15, 1798; removed with his family to Wisconsin in 1843,
and settled on Jefferson Prairie, Rock Co., now Clinton Junction,
where he had pre-empted Government land; he engaged in improving
and cultivating the same, and continued to farm this until 1855
or 1856, when he removed to town of Center, Rock Co., where he
was engaged in farming until 1859, when he removed to Janesville,
where he remained until 1860; he returned to Clinton Junction
after a visit to his native State; in 1865, he again returned
to Clinton Junction, where he died in April 1877; Martin R. remained
on his father's farm until 1869, when he removed to Evansville,
where he engaged in livery business, and, in 1873, he also engaged
in keeping hotel, the Spencer House, which he continued for two
or three years, when he gave up hotel keeping, until 1877, when
he sold out his livery business and purchased the hotel he had
formerly kept, which he refitted and extended and conducted under
the original name of the Spencer House, until the spring of 1879,
when he changed the name to that of the Central House. Mr. CASE
married at Center, Rock Co., Dec. 31, 1857, Miss Mary E. FELLOWS,
a native of New York; has had a family of five children, two
now living.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 862-863.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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