- DENNIS McCARTHY, farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Fulton; born in the
County Cork, Ireland, March
- 18, 1804; he came to America in 1830, and in 1840, he came
to Wisconsin and located in Porter Township, where, in that year,
he took up Government land and began improving for farming purposes;
he is still residing on the land purchased of the Government
thirty-nine years ago, and which is now managed by two of his
sons, Dennis, Jr., and Charles W. Mr. McCARTHY and family are
members of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the founder of the
church of that denomination situated on a portion of his land
and built in 1842; rebuilt in 1867. Mr. McCARTHY married in the
State of New York, in May, 1830, Miss Jane TAIT, a native of
the County Donegal, Ireland; he has seven children living - Catharine,
born May 6, 1840; Mary, Dec. 25, 1842; Ellen, May 20, 1844; Jerry,
Dec. 25, 1846; Dennis, Oct. 4, 1849; Charles W., Aug. 10, 1851;
Jane, Jan 1., 1853, died March 4, 1855; Jane S., born May 10,
1855. Owns 360 acres.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 871.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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