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Wm. SPAULDING - Is a native of Athens, Bradford County,
Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 30th day of August, 1807.
He was the fourth child of John and Elizabeth Spaulding, who
raised a family of ten children. Mr. Spaulding's education was
obtained in the free schools of his native State. His vocation
through life has been that of a tiller of the soil. His parentage
is of English descent. In the autumn of 1834 he removed from
his native State to Laporte, Indiana, where he remained for two
years, returning to Pennsylvania, from whence he emigrated with
his brother Joseph and G. Williston to Rock County, with teams,
making the trip in forty days, arriving at Janesville on the
23d day of April, 1837, where they spent their first Sabbath
in the only house in that section of the country, kept by H.
F. Janes as a hotel. Mr. Spaulding soon made a claim of five
hundred and sixty acres of fine prairie land, on which he has
since lived, and which are now in fine state of cultivation.
He was married on the first day of August, 1838, to Alma H. Wright,
of Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. In September, 1860,
Mr. Spaulding lost his first wife, and on the 28th day of January,
1862, he was again married to Mrs. L. M. Richardson, who was
a native of Deansville, New York, born on the 29th day of April,
1825. He was one of the first three County commissioners, chairman
of the township board of supervisors for two years, is a strong
supporter of all religious and educational interests, and politically
has always been a supporter of the principles of the Republican
party. By reference to another page of this work a fine cut of
his residence
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