Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . in Genesee county. New Fcntons were mechanics and were pioneersof Vermont, where they were recognized as hon-orable and upright citizens. The grandfatherFenton was a soldier of the war of 1812 and wasgranted a pension in recognition of his father of our subject was also a pensionerof the war of 1812. having the Amer-ican cause during the second conflict with Eng-land. William J. Cleveland was a lad of seven yearswhen he accompanied his parents on their re-moval to Wyoming county. New York,
Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . in Genesee county. New Fcntons were mechanics and were pioneersof Vermont, where they were recognized as hon-orable and upright citizens. The grandfatherFenton was a soldier of the war of 1812 and wasgranted a pension in recognition of his father of our subject was also a pensionerof the war of 1812. having the Amer-ican cause during the second conflict with Eng-land. William J. Cleveland was a lad of seven yearswhen he accompanied his parents on their re-moval to Wyoming county. New York, where hewas educated in the public and select worked upon his fathers farm until eighteenvears of age and during three winter terms en-gaged in teaching school. When twenty-twovears of age he was married and two years lateriie came to Illinois, making the journey by railto Buffalo, where he arrived on the 14th of De-cember. 1853. He then boarded a steamer boundfor Detroit. Michigan, and over the Chicago &Galena Railroad, now a part of the Chicago &. MR. AND MRS. \V. J. CLEVELAND. PAST AND PRESENT OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY. 229 Northwestern Railroad system, he continued hisjourney to Rockford. Soon after he located inPecatonica township, where he built a shackin a stone quarry. He then chopped wood thatwinter and the following spring removed to Sew-ard township, having in 1854 purchased eightyacres of land here, he and his brotlier buyingone hundred and sixty acres together. then drove a breaking team of fiveyoke of oxen through the first summer and hasassisted materially in the pioneer development ofthis section of the state. He lived upon thisland for about four or five years, after which hesold his eighty-acre tract and came to his pres-ent farm in Seward township, at first purchasingeighty acres, which was the nucleus of his presenthome. He built a house upon this tract andafterward extended the boundaries of the farmby the purchase of an additional one hu
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