- EDWARD J. FILLINGHAM, is a native of Montreal, Canada, where
he was born December
- 25, 1831. His parents, Isaac FILLINGHAM and Mary (HALL) FILLINGHAM,
were natives of England, but in 1830 they went to Montreal, where
they resided until 1832, when they returned to England. After
spending twenty-four years in their native place they decided
to come to America, and in 1854 landed in Buffalo, N.Y. They
remained there but one year, then came to Beloit, Wis., where
Mr. FILLINGHAM engaged in newspaper work, and made this place
their home the remainder of their lives.
- Edward received his education in the schools of England and
when nineteen years and six months
- of age he came to the United States and first found employment
with the Middlebury (Ohio) Comb Factory. He remained here from
1851 to 1855 and then came to Beloit and was employed in the
lumber yards of this place, where he remained one year, and then
commenced farming, in which he engaged until 1887, when he sold
the farm and went to Minnesota, settling in Lyon county. He lived
there eleven years, then returned to Beloit in 1898, and has
since been in retirement from active business cares.
- Mr. FILLINGHAM has taken somewhat of an interest in political
affairs, and while in Minnesota
- filled the office of town treasurer for four years and chairman
of the board of supervisors for three years, to the satisfaction
of his constituents and with credit to himself.
- In 1857 Mr. FILLINGHAM was married to Miss Francis HALL,
who was also a native of
- England. Mrs. FILLINGHAM died at Beloit in 1883 at the age
of forty-eight years. In 1885 he was again married to Miss Sarah
NICHOLS, a native of Canada, and who died in Minnesota, and Mr.
FILINGHAM married his present wife, Mary HALL, in 1888, a native
also of Canada.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 809-810.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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