WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884


Bright, A. H., farmer, is descended from Henry Bright, a Pennsylvania Dutchman. Harmon, son of 
 Henry, married Sarah Kean, both "to the manor born," and settled on a farm in Sadsbury, Crawford 
 county. Here was born to them the subject of this sketch, May 12, 1819. He received a farm training 
 and common-school education. When nineteen he went out to farm labor and saved enough from his 
 wages so that he bought some land at twenty-two, and went on it. In 1840 he married Catharine, 
 daughter of William and Dorothy Poole, all of New York. In 1844 he went to Illinois and built a 
 sawmill on Rock river, fifteen miles below Rockford. He was afterward in a sawmill in Janesville, 
 Wisconsin; farmed some years on Sugar river, west of Janesville. He became a resident of Minnesota 
 in 1862, and resided two years on a farm in Belvidere, Goodhue county. Then he traded that property 
 for one hundred and forty-five acres on section 9, Mazeppa, where his home has been ever since. His 
 domain now includes three hundred and forty acres in this township. He has dealt considerably in 
 lands. He is a thorough republican, but meddles not with politics. On the unanimous vote of the town 
 he once accepted the office of justice, but resigned before his term expired. Theologically he is a 
 Free-thinker. Alanson Porter, his eldest child, died at fourteen years of age. Priscilla J. (Mrs. Harry 
 Dakes), lives at Oakland, California; Hiram Juram Hydecooper, Roberts Station, Wisconsin; the rest 
 reside in Mazeppa, viz: Rhoda Adell (Mrs. Orrin Boughton), Thaddeus Sobieski, William Henry 
 Harmon, Sarah Catharine Elizabeth (Mrs. Jones Segar), Albert Rathborne Frisby, and a son bearing 
 the full name of Marquis de La Fayette.