. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . -. There his birth occurredon the 1st of March, 1828. His i)arents, Samueland Sarah (Burton) Cory, were also natives ofEngland, where the former pursued the trade ofcarpenter. They had a large family, consisting ofnine children, of whom Sarah was the first tovisit the New World. Having wedded WilliamColwell, she accompanied him to America in 184( years later her parents, brothers and sistersjoined her on this side of the Atlantic. F
. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . -. There his birth occurredon the 1st of March, 1828. His i)arents, Samueland Sarah (Burton) Cory, were also natives ofEngland, where the former pursued the trade ofcarpenter. They had a large family, consisting ofnine children, of whom Sarah was the first tovisit the New World. Having wedded WilliamColwell, she accompanied him to America in 184( years later her parents, brothers and sistersjoined her on this side of the Atlantic. Forty-. W. p. SAWYER. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAImCAJ-, RECORD. 547 four days were consumed in iiiakinsi tlie vovngefrom Ilyinouth to (^uolioc, from wliicli city theymade tlieii wiiy to Palmyra, .leffcrsuii County,Wis., wlierc tlie father farmed and also carried onhis trade. In that county lK>tli he and his wifelived their remaining days, he dying at the age ofsixty-seven, and she, a few years younger. IJothadhered to the faith of the Methodist KpiscopalChurch. Of their cliildren six are living: AnnaMaria wedded Nathaniel Keat and resides in .leff-erson County; Sarah, who has lieen twice married,is the wi(U)w of Uicliard Ierdon, of ()ttavva Town-ship; William comes next; Thomas farms in Ne-braska; Kli/.aheth, wife of Daniel Thomas, residesin Iowa; Jane, wlui married !•. Iotter, lives inFarmington, Wis. William Cory, who was the foiiitli child in t)rdcrof birth in the above family, had very meagerchances of obtaining an education. When onlynine years of age he began to work out to helpsupport hi
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