“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


WILLIAM EBBETT,  farmer, Secs. 32 and 33;  P.O. Oak Hill; born in 
Cornwall, Eng., Aug. 1, 1829; came to America in 1854, locating in 
Ottawa, Waukesha Co., where he resided twelve years; removed to the 
farm he now owns of 300 acres in 1867.  Mr. Ebbett has served as local 
preacher in the Bible Christian Churches at Pleasant Valley, Zion, 
Siloam and Palmyra, also Ottawa and Cushman's Schoolhouses.  He 
unite with the B.C. Church at the age of 17 and has always been an 
active worker in the great cause; has served as Sunday-school 
Superintendent thirty-one successive years.  He married Miss Caroline 
Northey, of Heart Prairie, May 19, 1858; they have eight children - 
Moses H., Bessie E., William C., Gilbert U., Emma E., Mary C., John 
and Urilla M.  Mr. E. is a Republican and has always been a strong 
advocate of temperance.


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