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C. W. LAWRENCE--The subject of this sketch was born in
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, on the 29th day of July, 1812.
Mr. Wm. Lawrence emigrated with his family to Rock County, Wisconsin,
in May 1837, and located in what is now called Beloit Township.
Clark spent two years in Rockford, Illinois, in the pursuit of
different kinds of business, after which he too came to Rock
County, and located a farm on section 36, consisting of two hundred
and eighty acres, all of which is now under a high state of cultivation,
with a large and convenient house and beautiful surroundings,
barns, granaries, and other necessary outbuildings. Mr. Lawrence
received only a common school education, and at the age of twenty-five
years was married to Hannah M., daughter of John and Anna Lewis,
on the 12th day of April, 1838. Mr. Lawrence has been successful
in the acquisition of property, his success being attributable
to close application to business, united with a rigid course
of honest and fair dealing. He was chairman of the board of supervisors
for two years, has served as chairman of the town boards, etc.
He built the first frame dwelling erected in the town in the
spring of 1839. Is and extensive dealer in horses and cattle,
and pays considerable attention to the growing of finen wool,
Spanish sheep. A lithographic view of his residence
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