- WM. SPAULDING - Is a native of Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
where he was born
- on the 30th day of August, 1807. He was the fourth child
of John and Elizabeth SPAULDING, who raised a family of ten children.
Mr. SPAULDING's education was obtained in the free schools of
his native State. His vocation through life has been that of
a tiller of the soil. His parentage is of English descent. In
the autumn of 1834 he removed from his native State to Laporte,
Indiana, where he remained for two years, returning to Pennsylvania,
from whence he emigrated with his brother Joseph and G. WILLISTON
to Rock County, with teams, making the trip in forty days, arriving
at Janesville on the 23d day of April, 1837, where they spent
their first Sabbath in the only house in that section of the
country, kept by H. F. JANES as a hotel. Mr. SPAULDING soon made
a claim of five hundred and sixty acres of fine prairie land,
on which he has since lived, and which are now in fine state
of cultivation. He was married on the first day of August, 1838,
to Alma H. WRIGHT, of Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
In September, 1860, Mr. SPAULDING lost his first wife, and on
the 28th day of January, 1862, he was again married to Mrs. L.
M. RICHARDSON, who was a native of Deansville, New York, born
on the 29th day of April, 1825. He was one of the first three
County commissioners, chairman of the township board of supervisors
for two years, is a strong supporter of all religious and educational
interests, and politically has always been a supporter of the
principles of the Republican party. By reference to another page
of this work a
fine cut of his residence may be seen.
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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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