- LEWIS WHITEHEAD (deceased) was among the honorable and useful
citizens of his time. As a
- neighbor and a citizen he as highly esteemed for his kind
heart, his sympathetic disposition, and his manly and upright
character.
- Mr. WHITEHEAD was a native of Berne, England, born June 15,
1815, spent his boyhood and
- youth in the community where he was born, and there obtained
his schooling. He descended from a family of the purest Anglo-Saxon
lineage, which far away was mingled with a royal strain. William
and Annie (TONE) WHITEHEAD, his parents, were born in Berne,
England, where the father followed the double occupation of farming
and fishing, and they were known as honorable and industrious
people. They were the parents of thirteen children, those who
came to this country being William, Lewis and John.
- Lewis WHITEHEAD, after coming to this country, in June, 1850,
settled in Wisconsin, and
- became well established here. He was married in Green county
June 3, 1866, to Miss Olive L. MINOR, a daughter of Hiram and
Parmelia (GRANT) MINOR. Mrs. Parmelia (GRANT) MINOR was a distant
relative of President Grant. Mr. and Mrs. WHITEHEAD became the
parents of the following children: John W., born April 10, 1867,
married Miss Statire FOOTE, of Medina, Ohio, and is now a farmer
in that locality. George Henry, born Aug. 21, 1868, married Miss
Nettie LICHTENWALLER, of Monroe, Wis., and is a farmer in the
town of Jefferson. Alvin R., born March 28, 1870, is a farmer
in Iowa, and on Feb. 13, 1901, he married Elizabeth GREVES. Annie
Maria, born Nov. 3, 1871. Wakeman D., born March 25, 1873, resides
with his mother on the home farm, and is engaged in its cultivation.
Parker M., born Sept. 24, 1874, is a merchant at Elgin, Neb.
Frank B., the youngest in the family, was born March 14, 1876,
and is now engaged in farming in Indiana.
- Mrs. Olive L. WHITEHEAD was born Dec. 3, 1841, the eldest
child in a family of nine, the
- others being Ruby J., William M., Cyrus T., Truman J., Perry,
Franklin, Belinda, and Serepta (who died in childhood). Hiram
MINOR was born in 1812, and died in 1886, and was totally deprived
of sight for twelve years previous to his death. Mrs. Hiram MINOR
was born in 1818, and died in 1855.
- Lewis WHITEHEAD began life in this country as a day laborer,
but soon became a farmer, and
- at the time of his death, in 1884, owned a fine estate of
180 acres of very desirable farming land in the town of Jefferson.
Mrs. Olive L. WHITEHEAD is now making her home on the old place.
Mr. WHITEHEAD was a Republican, and thoroughly posted on the
topics of his time. Honest and true to his convictions, he was
well liked by his neighbors, and acted the part of a man wherever
placed. To his family he left a good property, and his widow
is passing her last years in peace and comfort. She is a woman
of more than the usual force of character, and is highly spoken
of by those who know her best as a sincere Christian, of kindly
spirit and generous impulses.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 618-619.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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