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Sylvester A. Dennis, a settler of 1857, was born February 19, 1816, near Columbus, Ohio. His parents moved to Vermillion County, Indiana, when he was about 15 years of age. He was married when about twenty years old, to Catherine Mathews. She was born 1818, in Ohio.

In 1849 the family emigrated to Allamakee county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming until May 1857, when he came to Mower county. He settled first in Red Rock Township, remaining in the township eight years, when he traded farms with a Mr. Leisure, of Waltham township, to which he removed, settling on this farm in section 19. He lived on this farm until his death, December 17, 1867. Mrs. Dennis died in Allamakee County, in December 1850.

By this marriage he had six children, four of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Mr. Dennis again married in 1852, to Rebecca Arnold. She was born in Virginia in 1834, by whom he had six children. She is now the wife of William Stewart.

History of Mower County, Minnesota,
Mankato, Minn.: Free Press Pub. House, 1884
Chapter XXXV Waltham Township, p 564

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Sylvester Dennis

A pioneer of Mower County who arrived in 1857. About 1831 was taken by his parents to Vermillion Co., Indiana, when fifteen years of age. In 1849 Sylvester took his family to Allamakee Co., Iowa, and there his wife, Catherine, died in December 1850, leaving six children, after which in 1852 he married Rebecca, who also bore him six children. In May 1857, he came to Mower County and for eight years lived in Red Rock township (Brownsdale). Eight years later he traded farms, and secured a place in section 19, Waltham Township, to which he moved, and there continued to live until his death.

[History of Mower County, 1911]

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Submitted to MnGenWeb by Kathy Pike, Oct. 2006