WI BIO - Jackson Co - RICHARDSON, Isaac B.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 422

Isaac B. RICHARDSON, Sechlersville [Hixton Township, Jackson County, 
Wisconsin], was born 11 October 1814 in Canada, the son of Joseph RICHARDSON 
who served in the Provincial Dragoons in the War of 1812 under General 
[Isaac] BROCK, Isaac B. [RICHARDSON] being named after said General. He 
[Isaac B. RICHARDSON] left Canada in 1838 and came to Hudson [Lenawee 
County], Michigan, where he worked at the carpenter's trade, being engaged 
part of the time in building railroad bridges on the Michigan Southern 
Railroad; he helped lay the first mile of superstructure on that road. In 
1844 Mr. RICHARSON left Hudson, Michigan, and returned to Canada in 1847.

Isaac B. RICHARSON was ordained as Deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church 
by Bishop Orlander SMITH, at Beverly [Ontario, Canada], being also ordained 
as Elder by the same bishop in 1849 at Kilsworth [Kilworth, Ontario], Canada. 
Mr. RICHARSON was the founder of the "Progressionist," a paper published at 
Marpeth [Ontario], Canada, and also of the "Western Union," [which he] edited 
in 1861 at Chatham [Ontario], Canada, and which he sold out in 1864 to Corman 
Brothers. Mr. RICHARDSON came to Jackson County [Wisconsin] in 1866, being 
received into the West Wisconsin Conference in 1867 by Bishop M. SIMPSON. 
Isaac B. RICHARDSON is a member of the Sons of Temperance.

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