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Asa G. RANSOM - Mr. Ransom was the second son of Asa and
Hannah Ransom, and was born in March, 1823, at Middlefield, Otswego
County, New York. Asa emigrated to Milwaukee in 1843, where he
hired out at eight dollars a month, and after awhile removed
to Rock County, and engaged in threshing for ten years, and during
this time built the first hotel in Emerald Grove, in the year
1850. He also purchased eighty acres of wild land, and has added
to his first purchase until he now owns a farm of four hundred
and twenty-seven acres of prairie and ninety acres of timbered
openings, with a convenient, well-furnished house, good outbuildings,
and plenty of stock. Mr. R. was married January 17, 1858, to
Miss Martha, daughter of Nicholas and Anna Hubble, who now reside
in Sharon, Wisconsin, at a very advanced age. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom
have a family of five children, - three sons and two daughters.
Mr. R. has been chairman of the township board of supervisors
for four years, justice of the peace for ten years, and has held
many other offices. A fine view of his residence
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