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| | Biographical Sketches- Genesee Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Genealogy (GenWeb) |
 | | RICHARD JONES, retired farmer, Genesee Depot; was born March 5, 1805, in Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, South Wales; is a son of John and Ann (Williams) Jones; was fifteen years in the mercantile business, and came to the United States in 1842, with his wife and seven children, buying, at $1,800, 240 acres on Sec. |
 | | JOHN H. PAUL, farmer and stock-breeder; Genesee; born in Somersetshire, Eng., in August, 1819; he learned the trade of stone cutter, and in 1840 came to the United States, locating in New York State, and in Canada where he was engaged in cutting stone at the enlargement of the Welland Canal. |
 | | HERMAN V. PRENTICE, retired merchant; Genesee; is a native of Bethlehem, Litchfield Co., Conn.; born March 17, 1799; is the youngest of eleven children of John and Martha (Clemans) Prentice; he taught district school in Litchfield at 16, and took a three-years’ medical course. |
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