WI BIO - Dane Co - LINLEY, Henry
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, p 132

Henry LINLEY, a successful business man of Mazomanie, Dane County, WI, was 
born in Blyth, Nottinghamshire, England, 24 May 1824, a son of John and 
Isabella (BEIGHTON) LINLEY, also natives of Nottinghamshire. John LINLEY was 
a gardener and coachman of England. The parents moved to Yorkshire, England, 
when our subject was eight years of age. In 1844 they came to America, 
locating in Iowa County, WI, where John LINLEY followed farming. [In 1844 
Iowa County, WI, still contained the portion which later became Lafayette 
County, WI.]

Henry LINLEY, the eldest of five children, three sons and one daughter, 
received only a limited education, and at the age of 10 years began work in a 
foundry. At the age of 25 years, in 1849, he joined his parents in the U. 
S., in Iowa County, WI, and was engaged in farming there for thirty-nine 
years. [Thus the part of Iowa County, WI, where the parents settled in 1844 
was not located the portion of Iowa County that became Lafayette County in 
1846.] In 1888 Henry LINLEY came to Mazomanie, Dane County, WI, where he has 
partially retired from active business life. He still owns two sorghum mills 
and a fine farm.

Henry LINLEY was married in Yorkshire, England, 02 Jun 1846, to Sarah 
BAGNELL, and they have had ten children, nine now living: Isabella, William 
H., Elizabeth, John, Arthur L., Frank, Gertie, Herman, and May. Henry LINLEY 
votes with the Republican party, and while in Iowa County, WI, held the 
office of Township Supervisor. Religiously, he is a member of the 
Congregational Church.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly