Dowd, Jenny

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• 1860 Census: 1860, Osborn, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Page 02, line 33

Jenny married Shepherd, Sewell 14 Aug 1858, Waterloo, Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA. Sewell (son of Shepherd, George W. and Bull, Margaret) was born 6 Aug 1828, , , , Canada; died 26 Sep 1909; was buried Aft 26 Sep 1909, Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• 1860 Census: 1860, Osborn, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Page 02, Line 34

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• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 1182

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Biography:
REUBEN F. SHEPHERD, who has for some years been successfully engaged in the real estate business in Appleton, was born August 5, 1870, in Osborn township, Outagamie county, Wisconsin, a son of Sewell and Jennie M. (Dowd) Shepherd, the former a native of Farnum, Canada, and the latter born in Ireland. George W. Shepherd, the grandfather of Reuben F., came to Wisconsin in 1838, his family following him during the following year and settling in Waukesha county, where they engaged in farming. During the early '50s, George W. and Sewell Shepherd conducted a store in Milwaukee for a short time, but eventually came to Outagamie county, in 185--, and settled on property in section 5, Osborn township, where George W. Shepherd died. Sewell Shepherd continued to operate this property until 1877, and in that year went on the road as a commercial traveler for the West DePere Agricultural Works, with which company he was connected in this capacity for about sixteen years, then engaging in the butcher business at Seymour. After a short time he engaged in the fanning mill business, as a manufacturer at Seymour, but in 1894 or 1895 came to Appleton, where he was engaged in the real estate business up to the time of his death in September, 1909. His widow still survives. They were the parents of four children, as follows: Louise, who lives at home; Charles F., residing at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a commercial traveler; Evangeline, who married John Farwell, a resident of Kaukauna; and Reuben F. Reuben F. Shepherd received a common school education in the vicinity of his father's farm in Osborn township and later in Seymour, and entered his father's business office in Appleton when he had completed his educational training. He continued with him until the time of his death, and then succeeded him in the real estate business, in which he is still engaged. In 1907 he admitted C. B. Tift to partnership in the business. Mr. Shepherd was married November 22, 18--, to Iva V. Andrews, of Waterloo, Wisconsin, daughter of Wallace Andrews, an agriculturist and early settler of Dodge county, and to this union there have been born two children, namely: Maude J. and Robert A., both residing with their parents.
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