John Bare From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1023.

TOWN OF GLEN HAVEN

JOHN BARE, Sec. 19; P. O. Glen Haven; owns 360 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; born in Yorkshire, England, in 1827; came to America in 1850, and located in Ohio; in 1854 he removed to Wisconsin and settled in this county, and with the exception of two years spent in Texas, he has lived in this county. Mr. Bare has the finest farm in this locality; his dwelling house was built in 1870, at a cost of $4,000. He married Mary Ann Chase, a native of Missouri; they have eight children - Frank, Annie E., Olive Matilda, John, Ida Rebecca, Mary Jane, Lincoln and Freddie.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.