- JOHN DUDLEY, farmer, Sec. 35 [Town of Rutland, Dane Co.,
WI]; P.O. Union; a native of
- Vermont; was born in Orleans Co., in 1823; his father, Timothy
DUDLEY, was a native of New Hampshire. At the age of 19 years,
he removed with his parents to Orleans Co., Vt., where he was
afterward married to Patience JACKSON. John, the oldest of eight
children, spent his time at farming in Caledonia Co., to which
his father removed when he was quite young; at the age of 18
or 19, our subject returned to Orleans Co., whence in the fall
of 1844, he emigrated to Dane Co., Wis., and spent the winter
at work for S. W. GRAVES in the town of Rutland; in July 1845,
he went to Janesville, Rock Co., and worked for Mr. CHAPIN for
three years; he returned to Rutland in 1848, and bought his present
farm of 120 acres on Sec. 35; however, he did not locate upon
it at that time, but was employed by Mr. Chapin BIGLOW and others
till 1852, when he began to improve his farm, and has since made
it his home. Mr. DUDLEY has been a member of the Town Board for
two terms. He was married in the town of Porter, Rock Co., Wis.,
in 1852, to Rhoda C., daughter of William and Jane (CHENEY) SIMMONS,
a native of Rutland, Vt., who came to Wisconsin in 1849; her
parents came in 1846, but died in Minnesota - father in 1871;
mother in 1872.
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- Taken from "The History of Dane County, Wisconsin"
(c)1880 Western Historical Company, Chicago, pp. 1199-1200.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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