- SAMUEL JARVIS CUCKOW was at the time of his death one of
the venerable and most highly
- respected residents of Janesville, Rock Co., Wis. He was
a native of England, where his birth occurred, in Rochester,
Kent, Jan. 16, 1815, and was the second son of Elizabeth and
Thomas B. CUCKOW. The latter was born in England in 1787, and
died at the home of his son, in the town of Bradford, Rock County,
Nov. 24, 1874. Thomas came to America in 1818, but soon returned
to England, taking his family back with him. Robert Cuckow,
father of Thomas, died in 1838, aged seventy-one years; his entire
life was passed in England.
- Samuel Jarvis CUCKOW was brought up an lived in England,
where he learned the printer's trade.
- In January, 1836, he married Sarah Eliza BRIDGELAND, born
in Boxley, England, in 1814, and came immediately to New York.
To them were born two children in New York City, Mary A. and
Thomas J. They returned to England in 1840. After that two
more children were born, Eliza and Eleanor B. His wife died
in July, 1849. Two years later, with his motherless family,
Mr. CUCKOW came to Wisconsin, and settled on the farm in Bradford,
Rock County, which farm, and the additions thereto, he owned
at the time of his decease. In 1885 he removed to Evanston,
Ill., to live with his daughter, Mary A. Her death occurring
a year later, he went to Janesville, Wis., where he continued
to reside until the time of his death, March 5, 1901. For his
second wife he married Eliza S. FILMER, born in England in 1815,
and who came alone to New York from England. They were married
in New York City in May, 1853, coming immediately to Wisconsin,
where she died Aug. 18, 1900. Two children were born to them,
Samuel F. and Ruth O. The latter died in 1893. Mr. CUCKOW's
life was a busy one, and yet he found time to take a keen and
intelligent interest in all that pertained to the welfare of
his adopted country, and he won for himself a high place in the
estimation of those who knew him for his industry and integrity
of character.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 168-169.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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