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


HORACE PEARL, farmer, Secs. 29 and 30; P.O. Pipersville; born Jan. 
28, 1816., in Oneida co., N.Y. was educated there; moved to Cayuga Co. 
in 1837, and ran a boat on the Erie Canal till 1845, when he came to 
Wisconsin and located in Ixonia Township, Jefferson Co., on the north 
side of the river; bought 160 acres of land from the Government, and the 
first winter lived in a frame barn in the granary and kept a span of horses 
in the other part; he, next spring, built a log house; in 1847, the barn, full 
of wheat, was struck by lightning and everything burned except a horse 
and a few tools; in 1848, sold out and bought fifty-seven acres on the 
south side of the river, and built a frame house, which, in 1856, caught 
fire from a stove-pipe and was burned down; he then built his present 
residence; he now owns 108 acres of land.  Married Miss Ruth Maria 
Conkling, of New York, in January 1845; she died in June, 1861; she 
had eight children - Susan, Hattie, Dennison R., Legrand and Lottie, all 
of whom are dead, and Capemia, Florence and Edward L. still living; 
married Mrs. Maria Neegus, of Concord, in April, 1866.  He has been 
Treasurer of the township one year.


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