From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page 1437-1438
 
WILLIAM BEERS.  We rarely find two persons in everyday life who attribute 
their success in their different spheres to similar qualities.  Hard work and 
plodding industry paved the way for one, good judgment and a keen sense of 
values for another, intuition and a well balanced mind for the third.  An 
admixture of some of the qualities above named, emphasized by hard work, has 
been responsible for the success of the subject of the present sketch in his 
battle for the spoils of victory, these winning attributes having descended 
from a sterling ancestry who played no inconspicuous part in the early history 
of Walworth county, having done their share of the rough work necessary to 
redeem the fertile land from the wild state in which the first settlers found 
it, and it is to such as these that we of today are greatly indebted for the 
good farms, the thriving towns and the good schools and churches to be found 
in every community.
 
William BEERS was born in East Troy, Walworth county, Wisconsin, on the farm 
which he now owns, on May 24, 1856.  He is the son of John and Mary (CRITES) 
BEERS, the father born in Pennsylvania, July 25, 1803, and the mother in the 
state of New York on June 18, 1819.  They spent the childhood in their 
respective communities and were married in New York on January 1, 1839, and 
from there they emigrated to Walworth county, Wisconsin in 1842, and took up 
eighty acres of land where the subject now lives.  This they cleared and 
improved, undergoing the usual hardships and privations incident to pioneer 
life.  Later twenty acres was added to the place they had received from the 
government, thus making them a good farm, and here they spent the remainder of 
their lives, he dying in Honey Creek in 1886 and her death occurred on May 26, 
1892.  Politically, he was a Republican.
 
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John BEERS, three of whom are living 
in this writing.
 
William BEERS, of this review, was reared on the home farm where he assisted 
with the general work when a boy, and he received his education in the 
district schools, and early in life turned his attention to agricultural 
pursuits and he has been very successful, being now the owner of one of the 
finest farms of his township, consisting of two hundred and forty-one acres, 
which he has placed under a high state of improvement and cultivation, 
believing in adopting all twentieth-century methods conducive to the best 
results. He carries on general farming and stock raising on an extensive 
scale, and he has a pleasant, well kept home and large, convenient 
outbuildings.
 
Politically, Mr. BEERS is a Republican, and he has been more or less active in 
public affairs.  He is now serving his second term as chairman of the township 
board.  Fraternally, he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America.
 
Mr. BEERS was married on December 23, 1879 to Adella HULBERT, who was born in 
Racine county, Wisconsin, on January 1, 1855.  She is the daughter of Septimus 
and Sarah (JENNINGS) HULBERT, who came to Racine county, Wisconsin, about 
1842, with the pioneer settlers from the East, and here they established a 
good home and spent the balance of their days, Mr. HULBERT dying in East Troy 
in 1911 at the home of the subject.  The death of Mrs. HULBERT occurred in 
December 1907.  They were the parents of five children, of whom three are 
living.  The father was a farmer by occupation, and politically he was a 
Republican.
 
One child, a son, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. BEERS, Raymond Chester, whose 
birth occurred on January 17, 1887.  He was educated in the public schools of 
East Troy and the high school there, later spending one year in the University 
of Wisconsin.  He has adopted farming for a livelihood and he gives promise of 
much success in the future.
 
Submitted by Carol