- SAMUEL WEST, a prosperous farmer and stock dealer of Sylvester
township, Green county,
- lives on the old WEST homestead, about two miles north of
Juda.
- Mr. WEST is a son of George and Susan (WINCHELL) WEST, of
Erie county, N.Y., where the
- father was born Jan. 7, 1818. George WEST was a son of John
and Avis (BOWEN) WEST, the former a native of Cayuga county,
N.Y., of Irish lineage, and the latter of Scottish descent, born
in the State of Vermont. John WEST was the father of ten children:
George is a retired farmer of Brodhead, Wis.; Armida, born Nov.
6, 1820, married Stephen ESTAY, of New York, and both are deceased;
Susan, born Feb. 6, 1822, married Richard SHERMAN, of Erie county,
N.Y.; Matthew, born May 31, 1824, married Sarah DECKER; Thomas
S. B., born April 24, 1827, is living in Erie county; Sarah,
born July 19, 1831, married Peter WILLOUGHBY, of New York; Elizabeth,
born in June, 1833, married Nelson PARK, of Illinois; Jonathan
and John (twins) were born Sept. 10, 1837; and Annis was born
March 6, 1839.
- George WEST, father of Samuel WEST, was married to Susan
WINCHELL Sept. 1, 1840. Her
- parents, Ira and Betsy WINCHELL, were then living in New
York. To this union came Samuel our subject; Louisa, born Sept.
29, 1844; George, Feb. 14, 1846; Avis E., Nov. 29, 1847 (died
in 1896 at Hampton, Iowa); Clara, Sept. 7, 1849; Mary, April
24, 1854; Alice E., Nov. 27, 1855; Ida N., July 10, 1857; Nelson
P., Nov. 10, 1859 (died aged nineteen years); Minnie, Nov. 2,
1865 (died in infancy).
- Samuel WEST, whose name introduces this article, was born
in the town of Sylvester, Green Co.,
- Wis., March 11, 1845, five years before the admission of
Wisconsin as a State into the Federal Union. On March 23, 1867,
he married Miss Kate READ, of Juda, Wis., who was born June 2,
1849, in Cortland county, N.Y., daughter of Charles W. READ.
Mr. READ came from New York to Genoa Junction, Wis., about 1852.
He died June 14, 1899, in Gates, Oregon. To this union of our
subject and wife have come five children: George, born April
8, 1869, married Miss Lettie HALL, of Sylvester; Mattie, born
June 11, 1871, married Charles HALL, a merchant in Juda, where
he is postmaster; Susan L., born Oct. 8, 1873, died March 18,
1896; Nettie M., born Feb. 16, 1876, married Eldridge ANDERECK,
son of Rev. J. ANDERECK, of Juda; Bertha C., born Aug. 22, 1878,
married Oscar MOLDENHAUER, of Juda.
- Samuel WEST was reared on the far of Sylvester, and has memories
of Wisconsin as a wilderness
- which few possess at the present time. On Aug. 9, 1862, he
enlisted to Company K, 22d Wis. V.I., and served with honor and
credit to the close of the war. He was with Gen. Sherman when
he broke the backbone of the Rebellion, and was taken prisoner
at Brentwood Station March 25, 1864, being incarcerated in Libby
prison, but was soon paroled, and afterward exchanged. Honorably
discharged June 12, 1865, he returned home with a record of which
any man might be justly proud. For six months he was private
orderly for Major Gen. Mower, and for six months previous was
detailed as an orderly and employed on special duty, carrying
the dispatches a portion of the time.
- Mr. WEST has been engaged in farming, and has dealt in stock
and fine horses for the last thirty
- years, having reared a number of the best horses ever bred
in Green county. No citizen of the county has done more to improve
the grade of its live stock. Our subject has served as school
clerk, and chairman of the town, and is an honorable and esteemed
member of the community. He has never united with any church,
but is a splendid neighbor, a trustworthy friend, and a man of
the most irreproachable domestic habits and character.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 735-736.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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