Bio: Farrington, George (Arrived in Spencer 187?)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Farrington, Cole, Hanson

Source: Spencer Centennial Book (1874 – 1974)

The family of George Farrington, his parents, his sisters, Mary Ann and Sophia, his brother, Joe, and himself, came from Manchester England to Clarkson, New York, and later to Dodge County, Wisconsin. There another son, William, was born, and there Mary Ann married Charles Cle, who later published a newspaper in Loyal.

George Farrington was one of our early merchants and had a sore on Clark Street for years. He also owned the “Farrington farm on the hill,” across from the cemetery west on town on Highway 98. His brother, Joe, who had been gone for some time, came back to operate the farm for him. Sophia Farrington had married D. M. Hanson, the hardware merchant, and their daughter, Mary Hanson, kept house for her uncle Joe, who was a widower. In later years she lived in the Hanson home on Clark Street, where she took care of her parents and her uncle George in their declining years. She spent her entire life in the town of her birth.