Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Ironton:

George Stowe, farmer and proprietor cheese factory, Sec. 6; P.O. Ironton; is the son of William E. and Sarah B. (Dunn) Stowe; born in Lincolnshire, England, Oct. 3, 1820. He was married Jan. 23, 1857, to Sarah Batty, daughter of William and Rebecca (Kirk) Batty; Mrs. Stowe was born in Lincolnshire, England; they have four girls- Lizzie A., Sarah L. (now Mrs. George Wickesham, of Ironton), Mary A., and Minnie R. Mr. Stowe and family came to the United States in May, 1857, and made their home in Madison Co., N. Y.; he was engaged in cheese-making at Bouckville; manufactured 335,000 pounds of cheese annually; after a residence of five years in this place, the family moved to the town of Eaton, same county; lived there about eleven years, and then came to Wisconsin in April, 1872; settled on Sec. 6, town of Ironton; has 341 acres of land; in 1874, he started a small cheese factory on Sec. 6; makes about three tons of cheese a year.

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