From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 530

WILLIAM WILLARD ISHAM, son of Enoch and Mary, was born at Smyrna, March 24, 
1820; was apprenticed to a carriage maker; in 1842 was master of a shop at 
Earlville; married March 1, 1843, Eluah Newcomb FRANCIS, daughter of Levi and 
Hannah FRANCIS, and had six children, of whom Francis Devillo was a soldier of 
Company K, Forty-ninth Infantry, and Charles TRUMBULL was for many years a 
railway postal clerk.  In 1845 Mr. ISHAM, with Charles H. STURTEVANT, and later 
with Joseph WALTON, began a steadily increasing business of wagon making, and 
found distant markets for their products.  In 1869 he became a hardware 
dealer.  In 1855 he was assemblyman elected over Josiah DODGE; was a trustee of 
the school for the deaf; and a town officer.  He died November 26, 1876.  Mrs. 
ISHAM was born in Washington county, New York, November 30, 1822, and died June 
15, 1901.

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