- GEORGE F. SPENCER, retired farmer, born in 1822, in the State
of Vermont; came to
- Wisconsin in 1848, and settled in Union; engaged in farming
and boot and shoe making; he was the first shoemaker in the town;
he followed his trade, with farming, for about four years, when
he gave up his trade and gave his whole attention to farming.
Mr. SPENCER, in 1856 and 1857, was Town Treasurer, also in 1878;
he was also the Village Trustee for five or six years. He married,
in Porter, Rock Co., Nov. 22, 1849, Miss Elizabeth L. CAMPBELL,
a native of St. Albans, Vt. Has two children.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 867.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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