- JOHN LITTLE, the accommodating pathmaster of Janesville,
Rock County, and a farmer,
- residing in Section 28, of that township, was born in Roxburghshire,
Scotland, in 1830, a son of John and Isabel (BLYTHE) LITTLE,
natives of Scotland. The paternal grandfather of our subject
died in Scotland and the maternal grandfather, Thomas BLYTHE,
also died there, when about eighty-two years of age; he had two
children.
- John LITTLE, Sr., was a farmer, and operated a lime-kiln.
Coming to America in 1853, he
- located in Janesville township, where he bought 200 acres,
to which he added more land, improving it all. Here he died,
aged seventy-six, in about 1865. His first wife died about 1841,
a stanch Presbyterian, as was also Mr. LITTLE. The second wife
of Mr. LITTLE, Isabel IRVING, died in June, 1867, without issue.
To the first union were born eight sons and one daughter, five
of whom are now living: Thomas, John, James and Walter, of Janesville
township; and Andrew, of Blue Earth, Minnesota.
- John LITTLE, our subject, was educated in the schools of
his native land, coming to this country
- with his father in 1853, since which time he has resided
continuously in Janesville township, remaining with his father
until his death. John LITTLE now owns 160 acres of the old homestead,
finely improved. Employing the best methods of cultivation, he
has been enabled to bring his land up to a high grade of cultivation,
and his broad acres show the result of his efforts.
- On November 30, 1861, John LITTLE was married to Miss Jane
SCOTT, daughter of Walter
- and Elizabeth (ARMSTRONG) SCOTT, and ten children have been
born to this union, four sons and six daughters: John, who married
Ella GENTLE, lives in La Prairie, and has two children, Fay and
Norman; Isabella, who married James DUTHIE, lives in Bradford
township, Rock County; Walter, unmarried, is at home; Bessie
married Lester VAN GALDER, who is now deceased; Thomas died aged
eighteen months; Annie is teaching school in district No. 5;
Mary married Frank KORN, and lives in Janesville township; Jane
married Eugene SMITH, resides near Tiffany, La Prairie township,
and has one son, Harold; Maggie is living at home; Willie died,
aged three months.
- Mrs. LITTLE is a consistent member of and earnest worker
in the Presbyterian Church.
- Politically Mr. LITTLE is independent in his views, voting
with the party whose platform contains the principles most nearly
in accordance with his own ideas. For many years Mr. LITTLE has
been pathmaster in Janesville, has also served as school director,
and is justly regarded as one of the representatives of the best
class of farmers in Rock County.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 102-103.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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