- J. B. CADWELL, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Janesville; born in
Manlius Township, Onondaga Co.,
- N.Y., in September, 1827; born and raised on a farm, received
a good, common-school education; at the age of 22, he began life
for himself; bought a farm of fifty acres in Pompey Township,
same county. Married there, in October, 1849, Miss Teresa WILLIAMS,
who was born in Pompey Township in 1831; the result of their
happy union was four children; three are living - Evaline, Florence
and Rowland. Mr. C. lived in Pompey till 1851; he sold his farm
and moved into Manlius Township, where he bought a farm of twenty-five
acres, on which he lived and worked till 1866, at which time
he sold out and moved till the beginning of 1868; he sold out
and removed his family to Wisconsin, located and bought a farm
of eighty acres of improved land in Harmony, where he is now
living and prospering; barn, granary, house, cozy home, etc.;
raises a variety of crops; makes a specialty of raising tobacco,
which he finds more profitable than any other crop. He is Independent
in politics and liberal in religion.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 891.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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