Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 926
ROGER WOLCOTT

u>Roger WOLCOTT (deceased), came to Harrison County in October, 1859, driving a team through LaFayette County, Wisconsin. He located on Section 30, St. John's Township, where he took a claim, built a small house in which he lived until September, 1860, when a new residence was built. At the time of his death he owned five hundred acres of land. He was born May 14, 1827, in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and came to Kane County, Illinois, in 1840, locating in St. Charles, where he worked at the carpenter's trade with his father, and also farmed. He remained there until 1854, and then removed to Wisconsin, where he bought a small farm. He was married in August, 1853, at Elgin, Illinois, to Zrina COLE, daughter of Ethan and Lucretia (GILSON) COLE, by whom five children were born; Asa, Ethan, Albert, Roger, Mary Ellen.

Our subject and his wife were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. WOLCOTT was a Republican. He passed from the scenes of this life June 8, 1884.

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