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Joel Waterman was born in Windsor County, Vt., September 15, 1817, and is the son of Abram and Hannah (Boardman) Waterman, natives of Rhode Island and Vermont, respectively. The father was a farmer by occupation and died in Vermont in December, 1842. The mother died when Joel Waterman was but a year old. The latter was reared on a farm, and when grown, married, settled to farm life, and in connection also engaged in mechanical work. At the age of twenty-six he moved to McHenry County, Ill., where he remained for about four years engaged in farming. He then moved to Winnebago County, Wis., and after remaining there about ten years removed to Chippewa County, of the same State, where he resided about twenty-one years engaged in farming, lumbering, hotel-keeping and merchandising. He then moved to Fort Worth, Tex., and engaged in hotel-keeping, which he continued from 1877 to 1885. In the last named year he moved to his present property, where he has a farm of 200 acres, 175 under cultivation. In 1843 he married Miss Belinda Joslin, of Waitsfield, Vt., who bore him five children: Eugenia, wife of Ambrose B. Manakan, of California; L. H., now in Nebraska; Leslie E., at Chippewa Falls, Wis.; Lillian, wife of C. E. George; and Jessie, who is unmarried, and is now visiting her sister in California. Mr. Waterman is a firm Republican, and has taken an active interest in public affairs, but has never aspired to office. He has a beautiful place one and a half miles south of the city of Fayetteville; intends making his home here, and is one of the prominent farmers. His father was a Revolutionary soldier, and at the age of sixteen, was at the battle of White Plains, near the city of New York. He was a pensioner at the time of his death. His wife’s parents were Hooker and Lucia Joslin, of Vermont.