A settler married the daughter of Squire Pierce of Summerville.

The evidence

• “Y. ; at the age of 12, made his first trip with his father with, stock ; they went from New York to Hartford and New Haven in Connecticut ; he afterward went with his father to Ohio ; engaged in selling clocks, cloths, buggies and Yankee notions, taking in exchange farm products ; often took droves of horses to New York ; used to sell common clocks in those days from $0 to $60; in 1844, moved to Jefferson Prairie, Wis. (July 4); bought 160 acres; in the fall of 1844, Henry S. went to Chicago, where then was a sea of mud, and the walks were like elevated railroads ; engaged induction business ; then traveled through Illinois to Peoria, and, in the spring of 1845, engaged in Coles' distillery ; returned to Clinton in fall of 1845, and, in iall of 1846, married the daughter of Squire Pierce, an esteemed citizen of Summerville ; have three children — Clarence (now living in Denver, Colo.), Bennett and Mary (are living at home) ; he went to farming till the fall of 1849 ; sold his farm and went to Beloit; was there till spring of 1850; had the gold fever and went to California; was there three years, then sent for his wife ; was successful while there ; kept a hotel and was engaged in s”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/20-bios-clinton.md, PDF p. 784 / book p. 788

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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