Excerpt from History of Green County, Wisconsin: Together With Sketches of Its Towns and Villages, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens In the general history of the county, as well as in the sketches of its city, towns and vil lages, the reader will find that incidents, reminiscences and anecdotes are recorded with a variety and completeness commensurate with their importance. Herein is furnished (and this is said with confidence) to the present generation and to those which follow it, a valuable reflex of the times and deeds of the pioneers. It has been truly said that a people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything to be remem bered with pride by remote descendants. It is believed that, in the following pages, there is erected a lasting monument to the memory Of the pioneer men and women of Green county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.

Josiah Wright, Jr. may have been born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He fought in the American Revolution. He married Eunice Easton and they had three children, Sophia, Eunice and Josiah (1790-1856). Josiah died 6 February 1792 in Greenville, Pitt, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin.