Southern Wisconsin Home Historic District

JOHN RAIiliACK, farmer. Sec. 11 ; P. 0. Union Grove ; was bora in Banfishire, Scotland, June 8, 1830 ; was brought to Montreal, Canada, by his mother, in 1835, and met by his father, who had come out one year previously ; lived in Montreal, and then in Dover. He was educated in Dover ; is now a farmer, and owns 250 acres of land in Dover, including seventy-three acres of the celebrated Howe farm. He married, in Necedah, Juneau Co., Wis., Nov. 20, 1855. Mary Sarles, a native of York State; has three children - S. Emily, Charles A. and William G. He also owns 320 acres of land in Traill To., D. T., an4 is there at the present time, supervising and working it; attends United Presbyterian Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

WIXIiIA]II BAIiliACK, father of John and James ; born in Banffshire, Scotland, in 1795 ; went to Montreal, Canada, in 1834, and lived there eighteen months, where he left, to go to Black Rock, near Buffalo, N. Y., and then to Freeport, III.; in 1840, he came to Dover. He married, in Banffshire, in 1821, Margaret Bremner, of the same place. They have three children - James and John, whose biographies are above, and Janette, who married Thomas Graham, a resident of Dover.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

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