Francis Paddock

Dr. Francis Paddock (1814–1889) was a frontier doctor who settled in Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin in 1838 and became an important member of the community, serving as a physician, a politician, a businessman, a farmer, and an overall leader of the town. Paddock Lake, a prominent feature of The Village of Paddock Lake in Salem, Wisconsin, was named after him.

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