Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . e and in 1840 came to Americaand li\e(.l in New York City until 1843,when he came to Wisconsin, and inthe town of Caledonia, Columbia county,and became one of the pioneers of the town-ship. He spent four years in CaledoniatLWnship and then removed to Scott town-ship, where he entered a claim to govern-ment lantl on Portage Prairie, where helived several years. He went to California\ia Panama, and spent four years miningwith good success, and upon his return toWisc(jnsin sold his farm
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . e and in 1840 came to Americaand li\e(.l in New York City until 1843,when he came to Wisconsin, and inthe town of Caledonia, Columbia county,and became one of the pioneers of the town-ship. He spent four years in CaledoniatLWnship and then removed to Scott town-ship, where he entered a claim to govern-ment lantl on Portage Prairie, where helived several years. He went to California\ia Panama, and spent four years miningwith good success, and upon his return toWisc(jnsin sold his farm in Scott townshijjand purchased land near Portage, .\ftertwo years there he again went to Scotttownship and bought a farm at Centervilleand another tract of hnul near Cambria,which was his home until his death, Jan-uary 10, 1899. He owned about four hun-dred acres of land, and had the best farm onPortage Prairie and conducted farming ex-tensively there. He engaged in raisingClydesdale horses and dealt in other conducted an extensi\e loan businessand l)ecame a stockholder of the Ctv Bank. WILLIAM KIHG. (Deceased
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