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


JOSHUA NORMAN, farmer, Sec. 36;  P.O. Pipersville; born in 1824 in 
Somersetshire, England; came to America about 1833 and landed in 
Canada with his parents, who died there; came to Watertown in 1851; 
for eighteen months, was teaming to Milwaukee and through the 
country, taking emigrants out, buying provisions, etc.; in 1853, rented a 
farm in Ixonia Township, and in 1855, went to Appleton and bought 120 
acres of land for $200, and in three months, sold it for $550, and 
returned to Watertown Township, bought eighty acres for $1,600, 
leaving $900 on mortgage, and only had a yoke of oxen and a cow; first 
year did not raise enough to pay interest; in 1861, sold out for $1,600 
and went to Canada, but returned almost immediately and repurchased it, 
giving $100 bonus; in 1866 bought thirty-two and a half acres in Ixonia 
for $2,000; in 1868, bought forty acres for $1,500; in 1871, bought 
thirty-two acres in Ixonia for $2,700, and paid for it all in two years, 
having to make up $2,300 to do so; built his residence in 1876; 
everything is now unincumbered and in a thorough state of cultivation.  
Married Miss Martha Hughes, of Watertown Township, Feb. 22, 1853; 
have six children – John P., Joanna, George W., Hugh, Thomas C. and 
Lizzie A.  He was Treasurer of School District three years and Road 
Overseer three years.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)