- WILLIAM FATHERS, born in London, England, came to America
with his father, the late John
- FATHERS, when but six years of age. He attended the public
schools of Janesville for several years, and then occupied himself
several years mining in California and in farming in Missouri,
returning to Janesville in 1883, and followed the occupation
of a farmer until the death of his brother Samuel, in 1887, when
he purchased the wholesale and retail liquor business of the
estate, which he now carries on. While in California he married
Miss Emma LEININGER. Of the three children born to them, Sadie
E. and Benjamin F. now survive; Anna Viola, born Nov. 13, 1880,
died the following 22d of February.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, p. 818.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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