- SAMUEL FILMER CUCKOW, a prosperous and successful farmer
of the town of Bradford,
- Rock County, belongs to the new generation of tillers of
the soil, who work with their brains as well as their muscle,
and now, in the very prime of life, is a fine specimen of that
noble class, the American farmer.
- Mr. CUCKOW was born May 26, 1854, on the farm he now occupies,
a son of Samuel Jarvis
- and Eliza Simmons (FILMER) CUCKOW, and had the surroundings
in his boyhood days that belonged to farmer lads of that time.
He worked on the farm, attended the district school and the
Emerald Grove high school, and the academies at Marshall and
Walworth. After his school days had passed the young man remained
at home, working first for his father, and later for himself,
and his broad, well-tilled fields attest the intelligent care
bestowed upon them. His land is located in section 17.
- On Dec. 17, 1884, Samuel F. CUCKOW was united in marriage
with Mrs. Ida H. (CRUMP)
- LEAP, widow of William E. LEAP, and daughter of Josiah Harrison
and Julia (STUART) CRUMP. They have an adopted son, Filmer Stuart
CUCKOW, born Nov. 27, 1893, who is the son of Mrs. M. E. NORTHRUP,
a deceased sister of Mr. CUCKOW. Mrs. Ida H. CUCKOW was born
in Utica, N.Y., the eldest in a family of seven children. She
is a lineal descendant of Anneke JANS, and belongs to the oldest
family, in the line of succession, of heirs to her great undivided
estate in New York. She is hospitable and very popular in the
community, and presides over her happy home with all a woman's
grace and refinement.
- Josiah Harrison CRUMP, the father of Mrs. CUCKOW, was a native
of England, and came to
- this country in early manhood, locating at Utica. He became
an architect, and rose to prominence in his chosen calling.
In Utica he married Julia STUART, and soon afterward removed
to Niagara Falls, where he built the "Mount Eagle House,"
most of the public buildings in that city, and some of the finest
residences, his own tasteful home being among them. From Niagara
Falls he went to New York City, where he made his home for many
years, but his last days were spent in Toronto, Canada, with
one of his sons, where he died in 1891, at the age of seventy-three.
His good wife had passed away two years previously.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 977-978.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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