- WILLIAM F. GOODRICH, wagon manufacturer, Emerald Grove; born
in Vermont in 1839;
- came to Wisconsin in February, 1860, locating in Bradford,
where he worked at carpentering for three years; he then moved
to Emerald Grove, where he built a wagon-shop. He married in
1861, Miss Sarah VAN ALLEN, a native of New York. In 1863, he
purchased a farm of 135 acres on the dividing line of Bradford
and La Prairie, known as the C. C. CHENEY farm. Mr. G. has been
a Constable for three years and is a Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 885-886.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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