A Hanaford came to Wisconsin, locating at Beloit.

The evidence

• “HANAFORD, machinist, Eclipse Wind Mill Company ; was born in Enfield, Grafton Co., N. H., Jan. 14, 1818, and came to Wisconsin July 5, 1849, locating at Beloit ; he moved from Enfield to Underbill, Vt., where he received his education, and also engaged in farming ; the last two years, farmed on his own account ; in 1845, he moved to Manchester, N. H., where he learned the machinist's trade by serving four years as apprentice ; he then came to Beloit, where he was engaged in a general jobbing machine shop for ten years ; was also in Chicago and Rockford for three or four months ; then engaged with Parker & Stone in the reaper works as machinist ; then in the Merrill & Houston iron works for two years and a half, and then in Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 746 / book p. 760

  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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