- SHUBELL FARR - The subject of this sketch was born in Chesterfield,
New Hampshire, on the
- 4th day of March, 1805. He is the oldest child of Alpheus
and Sybil FARR, who reared a family of twelve children. All the
education Mr. Farr received was in the public schools of Massachusetts.
His vocation through life has always been that of a farmer. He
was married at the age of twenty-seven to Miss Ludinda McKILLIPS,
daughter of David and Resine McKILLIPS. He removed from his native
State with his family to Orange County, Vermont, where he resided
for a number of years, removing from there to Indiana, where
he lived until the month of June, 1838, when he emigrated to
Rock County, Wisconsin, where he located on one hundred and sixty
acres of government land, and has since resided. The farm is
under a fair state of cultivation, with good buildings. The house
is said to be the first frame building in Johnstown Township,
if not the oldest in the County. Mr. FARR has paid considerable
attention to the growing and marketing of fine stock. Politically,
he is a strong advocate of the old Democratic principles, and
during the civil war was a strong Union man. Being one of the
early settlers of the County, he participated in the first organization
of the township of Johnstown. Mr. FARR has always enjoyed good
health, and is now living at quite and advanced age. He enjoys
the confidence and respect of all his fellow-citizens.
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- Taken from "Combination Atlas Map of Rock County,
Wisconsin. Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations
and Surveys by Everts, Baskin and Stewart." Chicago, Ill.
(c)1873, p. 105.
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- Courtesy of Lori
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