Job Grant
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Job N. Grant (October 4, 1832 – 1910) was an American farmer from the Town of Wonewoc, Wisconsin, near Union Center, who held a number of local public offices, and spent a single one-year term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Juneau County.[1]
Grant was born in 1832 in England. At the age of eight, he emigrated with his mother to the United States. He lived with her in Monroe County, New York. where he received a common school education and worked on farms. He left for Wisconsin in 1850, sojourning for one summer in Lake Mills in Jefferson County before moving on to what is now Juneau County, and in 1851 settled in the Town of Wonewoc. In the fall of 1852, he cut a road from his place to the Village of Wonewoc, and also helped open the road to Mauston, over which he was the first to drive a team. In March 1853, he left for California, where he stayed for six years and three months, working on farms and as a teamster.
Return to Wisconsin
He returned to Wisconsin in 1859, reporting that he had netted only one dollar from all his time in California. That year he married Julia N. Huff, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania born in 1840; by 1881 they would have five children. He purchased 160 acres in Section 8 of the township, later adding more, on which he built a farm. On November 17, 1863, he was drafted for the United States Army but paid $300 for a substitute, as the law of the time permitted.