- PETER LA BORDE, for many years an honored citizen of Juda,
Green county, where his death
- occurred April 7, 1901, was a son of David and Catherine
(ARNOLD) LA BORDE, natives of Union county, Penn. The LA BORDE
family is of French origin, and David LA BORDE was born in 1793,
followed cabinet making as a trade, and died in Stephenson county,
Ill., in 1876. His wife, Catherine (ARNOLD), whom he wedded in
1817, was born in 1800, and died in 1881. They became the parents
of the following children: Philip, born in 1819, is now living
in Nebraska; Peter; John, born in 1822, resides in Stephenson
county, Ill.; Elizabeth, born in 1824, was killed by the accidental
discharge of a gun; Catherine, born in 1826, married Henry LONG,
now deceased; Abraham, born in 1828, resides in Nebraska; David,
born in 1830, is dead; William, dead; Samuel, born in 1830, is
dead; William, dead; Samuel, born in 1832, deceased; Eli, born
in 1834, also deceased; Eliza, born in 1836, married Elias SHAFFER,
of Nebraska; Joseph, born in 1838, lives in Stephenson county,
Ill.; and George, born in 1840, died twenty years later.
- Peter LA BORDE was born Sept. 10, 1820, and Aug. 24, 1848,
was married to Miss Phoebe E.
- NOFSKER, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (MILES) NOFSKER.
Mrs. LA BORDE became the mother of the following children: Aaron
Lane, born Sept. 12, 1849, died in childhood; Hannah, born Oct.
8, 1850, married James W. RODERICK, an extensive farmer of the
town of Jefferson, whose biography appears elsewhere; Lydia,
born Oct. 13, 1852, is a noble Christian woman, a member of the
Juda Baptist Church, in which she is a teacher in the Sunday
school; and Clara, born Sept. 21, 1856, married James NEWMAN,
a business man of Cheyenne, Wyo. Mrs. LA BORDE was born July
15, 1825, and died Oct. 13, 1896. She was an active worker in
the Baptist Church. Mrs. LA BORDE began life as a poor boy, and
made his own way in the world. He located in Stephenson county,
Ill., in 1857, and came to Juda, Green Co., Wis., in 1858, and
followed carpentering and undertaking for nearly forty years.
From 1890 he lived a retired life. Mr. LA BORDE was the owner
of a choice farm of 140 acres, three lots and a nice dwelling
in Juda. He first visited Wisconsin at the age of nineteen years,
was always fond of travel, and had visited every State from New
Jersey to Wyoming. A Democrat in politics, and a member of the
Lutheran Church, he was a man of character and standing in the
community. Reared on the farm in the early days, he had little
or no schooling, but became one of the honest, upright and prosperous
men of Green county, with clear views and intelligent ideas regarding
questions of the day. A kind-hearted and generous spirit, he
made many friends, and left as part of his legacy to his children
and grandchildren the record of an honorable and useful life.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 452-453.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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