THOMAS S. PRESTON, Sec. 28; P. O. Preston; born in Grant Co. in 1857; his farm contains 240 acres; he is the son of Matthew Preston, one of the prominent farmers of the town of Fennimore; born in Yorkshire, Eng., in 1829. Married to Elizabeth Little, also born in Yorkshire, Eng.; emigrated to the United States in March, 1851; first settled in Sec. 18, town of Wingville, where he resided till 1861, when he settled in the town of Fennimore, where he now resides; his farm contains 440 acres, with fine improvements, all of which he made himself. Mr. Preston lost his first wife in 1865; he returned to England in 1868 and married his present wife, Abigail I. Hazeltine; he has six children by first marriage - Jane, James, Thomas, John, Margaret and Matthew; has seven children by present marriage - Lizzie, Charles, Albert, Wesley, Mary, Fred and Eli.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.