- ALBION RICHARDS, an old pioneer of Wisconsin, was born in
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 18,
- 1815. He was the son of William and Mary (PRUNER) RICHARDS,
of Pennsylvania. William RICHARDS was the son of David RICHARDS,
who was probably of English lineage. David, at the age of seventeen,
emigrated from Connecticut in 1777 to Pennsylvania, where he
ever after made his home, realizing his full share of the danger
of those stormy times.
- Mary (PRUNER) RICHARDS was the daughter of the Hon. Joseph
PRUNER, of Philadelphia.
- Albion was the fourth in a family of eight children. One
sister resides in Chicago; one brother, who, with three sons,
did valiant service for Uncle Sam during all of our late war,
makes Peoria, Ill., his home, the other brothers and sisters
remaining in the East.
- Mr. RICHARDS cast his first vote for William H. Harrison
in 1840 and his last vote for Benjamin
- Harrison in 1888, never deviating from the politics of his
boyhood. His wife, Eliza A. STERLING, was a native of the old
Keystone State, her ancestors being of Holland and Irish descent.
They have four children living and three deceased.
- One fine May morning in 1845 Mr. RICHARDS and the good wife
packed all their earthly
- possessions into their wagon, and with $65 all told in their
pockets, said adieu to home and friends, and started alone to
seek a home in the Western wilds, making the trip in six weeks.
- They pitched their tent in Rock County, where they have ever
since dwelt. Agriculture has been
- their chosen occupation. They may be found beneath their
own vine and fig tree, on section 17, in the town of Spring Valley,
respected alike by friends and neighbors.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 446-447.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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