Biographical Sketch of

John Cruckson

Transcribed by Barbara Voss for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 662 - 663


John Cruckson, who resides on section 16, in the town of Kingston, Green Lake County, is a native of Wales. He was born 
on the border between that country and England, in the year 1809, and there grew to manhood. In early life, he was inured 
to hardships and labor, but he thereby developed industry, perseverance and self reliance which have proved important 
factors in his after life. His father died when he was but eight years of age and upon his mother devolved the care 
and support of her four children. John being the eldest was forced, when but a lad, to earn his own livelihood, and 
assist in providing for the other three children. Our subject and his brother Richard are the only living representatives
of the family. Years came and went, years of toil and trouble, but at length he arrived at manhood and was united in marriage.

With his wife and one child, in 1845, he crossed the Atlantic to America, and on reaching Quebec, came direct to Wisconsin. 
He made his first location in Racine, where two years of his life were passed, when in 1847, he removed with his family 
to Columbia County, where he made arrangements towards securing a farm. He entered eighty acres of land which he transformed 
into a good farm, making it his home until 1864, when he sold out. The same year he purchased a tract of 220 acres on sections 
9, 15 and 16, in the town of Kingston, to which he has since added until his landed possessions now aggregate 380 acres, all 
within the same township. His efforts have been blessed with a reasonable degree of success, and in proportion to his means 
he has given for public enterprises and charitable works.

Mr. Cruckson was called upon to mourn the death of his wife in 1862. He was again married on the 17th of June 1863, when Miss 
Ann Emerson, who is a native of England, became his wife. Accompanied by her parents, she crossed the Atlantic to America in 
1855. Both are now deceased, the father�s death having occurred in Kingston in 1883, at the age of sixty nine years. The union 
of Mr. and Mrs. Cruckson has been blessed with five children: William, a resident farmer of the town of Kingston; Henry, who 
is engaged in farming in Marshall County, South Dakota; Bessie, who is engaged in teaching; Fred and Robert, who are yet at 
home.

Mr. Cruckson has been a resident of Wisconsin since its Territorial days, having voted for the delegates who framed the 
State Constitution. In early life, he supported the Whig Party, but since its organization has been an advocate of the 
Republican Party. He is a strong advocate of the temperance cause, and gives his support to any reform which has for its 
object the uplifting of mankind. He is charitable and benevolent, and is a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, with which he united fifty eight years ago. His wife is also a member and their faithfulness to duty and 
their profession, have won them many friends, who appreciate their worth and tender them the respect which is their just due.







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