- SANFORD SOVERHILL, one of the wide-awake business men of
Janesville, Wis., was born
- in Fulton township, Rock county, October 25, 1856, and is
the son of Myron H. and Adeline M. (SANFORD) SOVERHILL. He grew
to manhood in the country, attending the district schools and
later the graded schools of Fulton, and devoted himself to farming
until he was twenty-six years old. In 1885 Mr. SOVERHILL left
the farm, and going to Janesville, was for several years engaged
in the tobacco trade, buying on commission for New York and other
eastern houses and for European concerns. About 1886 he changed
the character of his business, and instead of acting as a broker,
turned his attention to buying and packing tobacco and shipping
to various market points in the United States. This he has continued
to the present time (1908) with good success, being now engaged
also in buying and selling wool.
- Mr. SOVERHILL is a practical and thoroughly careful man in
his business relations and while
- looking closely after his more personal interests, has also
devoted much time to other outside business affairs. He is president
of the Peoples' Coal Company of Janesville, and is also one of
its directors, and also a director of the Monarch Mining, Developing
& Reduction Company, of Grant county, New Mexico.
- In political sentiment he is a Republican. He is identified
with several fraternal and social
- organizations, such as the Knights of Pythias, the United
Commercial Travelers, Twilight Club of Janesville, and others
local in character. In religious faith he is affiliated with
the Presbyterian church.
- On November 23, 1883, Mr. SOVERHILL married Miss Anna G.,
daughter of Isaac and Anna
- (McNALL) PORTER, of Cookville, Rock county, a woman of charming
personality, who presides with womanly grace over their comfortable
and happy home.
- Mr. and Mrs. SOVERHILL have an interesting family of four
children, named respectively, Cora,
- Laila, Edith and Wilna.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 898-899.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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