- WILLIAM HUGHES, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Janesville; born in
County Meath, Ireland, Sept. 22,
- 1833; lived on a farm; attended school until 16 years old,
then engaged at farming till 1832; came to New York City, August
26, 1852; remained there only a short time. Married there, the
same year, Miss Mary WARD, who was born in Ireland; they have
had ten children, nine are living - Delia, William, James, Robert
P., Mary A., Thomas, Edward, John H., Sarah A. In 1852, Mr.
HUGHES and his wife bought a farm in Clinton Co., N.Y., where
he farmed till 1867; came to Wisconsin, with his family in March,
1867, and bought a farm of 102-1/2 acres of good land from one
of the STOCKMANs. Mr. HUGHES has eighty acres under cultivation,
raises a variety of crops, common breeds of cattle and horses
and Poland-China hogs. Members of the Janesville Roman Catholic
Church; Democrat. His son, William, is renting and working on
the shares, one of Mr. PAUL's farms, on Sec. 31, Milton Township,
of 220 acres; William is energetic and succeeding well; he is
raising 25 acres of barley, 30 of corn, 25 of oats, 35 of hay,
vegetables, etc.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 893.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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