Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Rachel Fuller for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Door County, Wisconsin by Charles I. Martin - 1881 [54] GIBRALTER - FOURTH ORGANIZED TOWN 1859. GEORGE JONES, fisherman; born England 1835; came to America 1849; married EMMA HINKS 1864; has seven children 1859. EDWARD S. RAYMOND, farmer; born Denmark 1835; came to America 1840; married ELIZABETH FISH 1857; has six children. 1859. WM. FRY, farmer; born in England 1838; came to America 1857; served in the Russian war; married ALZADAY GRIFFIN 1862 (she died 1870), has one child. 1859. JOHN BROWN, mechanic; born Illinois 1837; married MARY E. POPPLETON 1861; has four children. 1860. J. A. SMITH, salesman; born Denmark 1838; came to America 1853; married BERTHA VALENTINSON 1868; has four children. 1860. JOHN HOGAN, farmer; born Ireland 1827; came to America 1847; married BRIDGET MORONEY 1854; has twelve chil- dren. His daughter MARY married JOHN SLOAN, of Bailey's Harbor. BRIDGET married MOSES CODY. NORA married JOHN PHILIPS. 1860. AUGUSTUS LALLEMONT, farmer; born in Door county 1860; married LILLIAN THAYER 1878. 1860. G.J. FORSVOLD, farmer; born Norway 1810; came to America 1855; married MARTHA LARSON 1830; has two children. 1861. C. P. FAIRCHILD, merchant and farmer; born Massa- chusetts 1830; married SARAH M. JUDD 1851; has five children. His son C. E. married LILLIE LEMAN. 1861. JOHN ROGGENDOFF, farmer; born Prussia 1832; came to America 1858; married CATHERINE LEEHLER; has ten children. 1862. RUFUS M. WRIGHT, farmer, attorney and counselor at law; was county superintendent of schools four years, and county judge for over nine years; born in New York 1832; married ELIZABETH HOYT 1857. Second marriage to ELLEN BUNTEN; has four children. Mr. WRIGHT gives us the following facts of THE POPULATION OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY. Gibralter, Wisconsin} October, 1880} R. M. WRIGHT to C. I. MARTIN. JAMES CORNELL, horn in New York 1811, married in 1831 to ELIZA- BETH SOUTHWARD, aged nineteen years; moved to Washington Harbor this county, in 1850. They have had ten children - five sons and five daughters - and at this date all are yet living, and married. The total number of children, grand children, and great grand children resulting from the first marriage is eighty-five, of which seventy-four are now living. All of MR. JAMES CORNELL‘S children were fishermen, or married to fishermen. The old couple are now living at Green Bay, aged sixty-nine years, and are. we understand, in good health. . . . .For the above facts we thank the excellent memory of MRS. H. ROOT, of Bailey's Harbor. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================