- WILLIAM FEBRY. The people who have come to the United States
from England have done
- more for the advancement of our civilization than those of
any other Old World country. Her strongest blood has coursed
through the veins of her sterling sons who have cast their lots
with us, and their descendants are noted for their thrift and
honesty, and those two qualities in the inhabitants of any country
will in the end alone make that country great. When with these
two qualities is coupled the other quality of sound sense, which
all the English people possess, there are afforded such qualities
as will enrich any land and place it in the front rank of the
world's nations. Of this excellent people came William FEBRY,
farmer of Darien township, Walworth county. He comes of a race
that produced the famous Gladstone, one of the three greatest
statesmen, all things considered, that ever walked this terrestrial
footstool. He comes of a race that is famous for its original
investigations in the problems of civilized life - such men as
Newton Davy, and the "thousand souled Shakespeare,"
as well as Bacon, Nelson, Wellington, and a host of others, renowned
in their separate spheres.
- William FEBRY was born on June 10, 1867, in England. He
is the son of Francis and Sebina
- (KINGSTON) FEBRY, both natives of England, where they grew
to maturity and were married. The mother is now deceased, but
the father is living at Chippanham, England. He has engaged
in farming all his life.
- William FEBRY grew to manhood in his native land and there
received his education in the public
- schools. He emigrated to the United States in 1883, and
first settled in Janesville, Wisconsin, hiring out on a farm
near there for about five years, in order to get a start in life.
He then came to Beloit, Wisconsin, where he remained a few years,
thence to Darien township, Walworth county, where he has remained
for about twenty-two years, engaged in farming all the while.
He is the owner of a good farm in Darien township of seventy-five
acres, and has a very comfortable home here, all as a result
of his individual efforts.
- Politically, Mr. FEBRY is a Republican, and he has been a
director in the local school board for
- the past fourteen years, in No. 21 district, Darien township.
He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Episcopal church.
- The subject is one of a family of ten children, five of whom
are deceased; those living are Daniel,
- Kate, Anna, Mable, and William.
- William FEBRY was married to Susan POPE, January 25, 1891.
She is the daughter of William
- and Ann (MEDDLETON) POPE, natives of England, where they
grew up and were married and there the death of the mother occurred
many years ago. The father emigrated to America in the spring
of 1884 and first settled in Walworth county, where he spent
the balance of his life, dying in December 1896. He had spent
his life in agricultural pursuits.
- To the subject and wife five children have been born, one
of whom died in infancy, namely: Floyd,
- born April 13, 1892; Frank, born September 18, 1893, is deceased;
Ruby, born May 13, 1896; William, born October 16, 1901; George
Albert, born July 5, 1911.
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- Taken from "The History of Walworth County, Wisconsin,
Vol. II" by Albert Clayton Beckwith, (c)1912, pp. 855-856.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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