History of Grant County, Wisconsin, preceded by a history of Wisconsin, Part 149

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?]
Number of Pages: 1050

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" There were four of their children present with their families. The eldest daughter, Mrs. Mary Everett, of Cortland, Trumbull Co., Ohio; Richard and Timothy Cooley, of Nebraska, were absent."

JOHN S. DEITZMAN, Sec. 13; P.O. Washburn ; was born May 12, 1844, in Pennsylvania ; came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1848; settled in the town of Mifflin ; at the age of 21 years he left home and worked out, driving team for $18 per month, then rented a farm and commenced for himself, and continued to rent land for four years, then bought the farm where he now lives, which originally con- tained 186 acres, but has added to it until he now owns 400 acres ; 300 is under cultivation and 100 in timber. Was married to Sarah Ann Miller April 9, 1865, who was born in Sullivan Co., Ind., March 25, 1839 ; they have eight children, viz., Anderson B., Charles W., Rosa A., Alice M., Elmer F., John A., Perley E., Lula S. Mr. Deitzman has been a member of the School Board eight years : has been a dealer in live stock, and is at present raising and feeding stock on his farm.

E. P. DICKINSON, Sec. 31 ; P.O. Platteville ; was born May 26, 1819, in the town of John- son, Trumbull Co., Ohio; in early life, he followed the trade of carpenter and joiner ; in 1845, he came to Wisconsin, locating on a farm in Harrison. Three years later, he settled in Lima, where he has owned several different farms ; has resided on his present farm of 80 acres since 1853; also owns about 100 acres in Ellenboro; was Treasurer of the town of Lima eighteen years, and served twice as Assessor and four or five years as Chairman of the Board of Supervisors ; until 1868, he worked more or less at his trade. He married, in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Fanny S. Whitcher, who was born in Lisbon, Grafton Co., N. H .; when she was 10 years of age, her people settled in Michigan, and later removed to Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have nine children-Elizabeth, John, Loraine, Samuel, Phebe J., William, Everett, Ina and Charles ; four of these, Loraine, Elizabeth, Samuel and Everett, are in the San Juan Valley, Cal .; Will- iam is in Arizona, John in Nebraska and the others in Lima.

GEORGE DAILY, wagon-maker, Washburn ; was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., Aug. 3, 1826; came to Wisconsin in 1857 ; resided in Lancaster about seventeen years, then came to Washburn ; owns 80 acres of land. His wife, Adelia Carrie. was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, May 30, 1833 ; married Oct. 28, 1848 ; they had eight children-Eleanor, Albert, Isabel, Lewis, Martha (deceased), George, Lyman, Cyrus. In politics, Republican ; in religion, a liberal believer.

PERRY FRUIT ; P. O. Washburn ; was born in Madison Co., JIl., Oct. 26, 1819; continued to live there until 1846, when he came to Grant Co. and bought the farm he now resides upon of the Gov- ernment, built a home, and has lived here ever since. He was married to Miss Matilda Lampkin, of Mad- ison Co., Ill., .in 1841 ; they have six children living-I. I. (who graduated at the Platteville Normal School and is now practicing law at La Crosse), Nancy Ellen (now Mrs. A. E. Rundell), Martha G. (now Mrs. Brazelle), Henry D. (also a lawyer), Julia N. (now Mrs. E. A. Biddick), and James P., living at home. Mr. Fruit owns about 600 acres of good farming land as the reward of many years of honest toil. He is one of the pioneer members of the M. E. Church here. Assisted in building the first church in the town

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of Clifton. Is a stanch temperance man and member of the Good Templars, and has been a member of the Town Board many years.

EDWARD FOULKS (deceased) ; was born Feb. 14, 1812, in Wales; at 16, he came to America and began work on the Pennsylvania railroads and canals ; in 1835, he came to Wisconsin and engaged in the mines about Dodgeville and Mifflin, being one of the first Welsh settlers in what is now Iowa Co .; about 1845, he came to Lima and settled on the farm where he died Dec. 15, 1876. His wife was formerly Ann Burney ; they were married in Lima, she having come here in 1845, from Pickaway Co., Ohio, her birthplace ; they had seven children-Mary, George, Thomas, Sarah, Ellen, Emma and Ida, all born in Lima. Mr. Foulks was a hard-working and upright man, who earned and left a good farm and home.

SAMUEL FRAIZER, Sec. 19 ; P. O. Platteville ; was born Jan. 27, 1822, in York Co., Penn .; nine years later, his parents removed with him to Wayne Co., Ohio; from there with a brother- William Fraizer-he came to Apple River in 1843; spent eighteen months in the mines and returned to Ohio. In her native county (Wayne), he married Elizabeth Burns, and with her and two children he again came to Wisconsin, in 1851, locating upon his present farm of 141 acres, which he had purchased while in Ohio. The small log cabin stood upon the only cleared acre, and into this Mr. Fraizer moved his family. The thirty years spent here have not been wasted, as may be seen by the homelike farmhouse and capacious barn, surrounded by the well-tilled fields, once a forest. Mrs. Frazier died Oct. 17. 1865, in Ohio ; she left six children-Hector V., Mary E., John J., William C .. Thomas J. and Frank E. The present Mrs. Fraizer was Mary J. McClurg, born in Ellenboro, and a daughter of William McClurg, who lives on an adjoining farm in Lima. Mr. and Mrs. Fraizer have four children-Millie M., Louis E., Daisy and Samuel F. The two oldest of the ten children were born in Wayne Co., Ohio, and the others on the Lima homestead. Mr. F. is a Republican, and has been Justice of the Peace, Supervisor, etc.

MILLER FISH, farmer, Sec. 30 ; P. O. Platteville ; was born in Connecticut Aug. 20, 1818. Came to Wisconsin in 1855 ; a carpenter by trade ; bought 40 acres of land ; now owns 95 acres and works at his trade. His first wife, Celista Pritchard, was born in Connecticut in 1816. Married in 1843, died in 1862. They had three children-Colinus, who enlisted in Co. I, 10th W. V. I., in October, 1861 ; taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga; taken to Libby ; then to Andersonville, and escaped twice, but was recaptured by hounds when nearly in the Union lines ; released from Salisbury Prison at the close of the war. Anson H., in Crawford Co., Wis .; Mary, now Mrs. Meekin Marshall, in Iowa Co. Second wife was Elizabeth Evans, who was born in Ohio in 1828. Married in 1863; they had two children- Samuel E., and Elizabeth J., deceased. In politics, Republican. In religion, liberal believer. Has been Clerk and Director of Schools. The second wife had two children by a former marriage-Eva, deceased, and Joseph, at home.

WILLIAM N. GLENN; P. O. Washburn ; was born in Cleveland Co., N. C., Oct. 9, 1816 ; lived there until he was about 11 years old. when his family moved to Bond Co., Ill., where he lived many years. Here he married Miss Cynthia J. McCracken, whose people moved from Tennessee to Bond Co. Mr. G. has followed farming all his life, and when he came to this county, in 1856, rented the place he now owns for three years ; then resided on a place near by, but, for the last seventeen years, has owned the . farm he now resides on, consisting of 80 acres, west one-half southeast one-quarter Sec. 13. The farm was originally heavily timbered, but there was about 30 acres cleared when he first rented the place. He has cleared the remainder himself. Mr. and Mrs. G. have had eleven children, seven of whom are now living-Sarah, Washington R., Martha, Eli B., Charlotte V., Philip Lincoln and Cynthia E. Mr. G. has been a member of the M. E. Church for forty-eight years, a local minister for twenty five years ; assisted in forming the M. E. Church in Washburn, and has been a Trustee most of the time since. He has been an active temperance man, uniting with the Washingtonians, Sons of Temperance, Good Templars and Blue- Ribbon men, giving his influence and active sympathy to every effort made to stay the tide of intemperance and promote the cause of sobriety and total abstinence in the community where he lives.

ROBERT C. HALE, Sec. 29 ; P. O. Platteville; is a son of John and Isabella (McColloch ) Hale (see sketch of John Hale) ; was born March 28, 1848, in Hazel Green, Grant Co, Wis .; came to Lima in 1850, and has since resided here ; was for a number of years on a small farm on Sec. 20, and lo- cated where he now is in 1873. He married Mrs. Hannah M. (Condry) Reed ; she was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, and came to Grant Co. in 1871, with her former husband, William Reed, who died a year later, leaving an only son, James Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have three children-William T., John J. and Jessie May, all born in Lima. Mr. Hale is one of the three owners of a recently purchased portable steam saw-mill, and is at present engaged in operating it in the heavily-timbered districts of Grant Co.

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JOHN HALE, Sec. 28; P. O. Platteville ; was born March 4, 1815, in Somersetshire, England ; came to America in 1840 ; landed at New York City ; spent some time in the Pennsylvania and Ohio coal mines, and six months in St. Louis. He married at Cannellton, Ind., Isabella McColloch, and, in the spring of 1842, came to Hazel Green, and engaged in mining there until he came to Lima in 1850. Here he bought his present 80-acre homestead farm, then in a state of nature. The first year was spent in a log cabin surrounded by the dense growth of oak, hickory, etc., which originally covered his and all the adjoining land. He has cleared 65 acres of this, and, besides, owns 70 acres on Sec. 29. Mrs. Hale died July 14, 1864, leaving nine children-John P., Margaret C., Robert C., Sarah A., Elizabeth J., Lafayette, Alvin, George T. and Jacob A. The present Mrs. Hale was Sarah M., daughter of Jacob and Sarah Quick ; she was born Jan. 9, 1815, in Neversink, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Jan. 7, 1834, she married in Caro- line. Tompkins Co., N. Y., G. A. Graham, who was born June 25, 1815. They removed to Illinois, and, in 1835, came to Plattevile, camping-out the night of July 4, 1835, near the site of the city. Mr. Gra- ham went to California in 1849, and died there. He was one of the earliest settlers in Lima, and left six children-Robert, Alexander, William, Maria L., Emma M. and Sarah A .; Mary J. died before her father went to California. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have a most pleasant home, and look back to pioneer days as times when hardships and privations were cheerfully borne that such a home might be finally secured.

PAUL JEARDON, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Platteville ; was born at Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 7, 1819 ; emigrated to Platteville, Wis., in 1841 ; a blacksmith by trade, which he continued to follow ; he then removed to Dodgeville in 1847, and remained until 1862, when he entered Co. C, as 31st W. V. I., as private, and elected to First Lieutenant ; mustered out in 1865 ; returned to Platteville, and bought and now owns 140 acres of land ; was burned out Nov. 30, 1871, he then built a fine stone house, and has a beautiful home. His wife, Jane Nettle, was born at Liverpool, England, Feb. 9, 1827 ; came to America with her parents, who settled near Pottsville, Penn., in 1834 ; started for Mineral Point; her father died at St. Louis, Mo., where the family remained until the next spring, when they came on to the Point, then to Belmont, then to Platteville. They married in 1845; they have had thirteen children-Maggie, born Jan. 12, 1846, and now Mrs. Colman ; Richard, born Jan. 10, 1848, freight conductor on the Chicago & Alton R. R., in Missouri ; Frank Preston, born July 1, 1850 ; Charles A., born May 21, 1852 ; Eva J., born June 26, 1854 ; Louis, born July 10, 1856, in Colorado on the railroad as fireman ; Stephen N., born July 24, 1858, in Nebraska; Kate I., born Sept. 9, 1860; Jessie J., Feb. 20, 1863 ; Allen W., born April 1, 1866 ; Lucy A., born Jan. 4, 1869 ; Paul H., born Nov. 16, 1871 ; Helen N., born Dec. 11, 1875. In politics, Republican. In religion, Congregational, is Deacon. Has been Treasurer and Clerk and Di- rector of School ; also Good Templar.

FARNAM JOHNSON (deceased) ; was born in New Jersey Dec. 12, 1802. In 1827, he came to the lead diggings about " Hardscrabble " (Hazel Green), and spent the summer there and at Sin- sinawa Mounds. In 1828, he came to Platteville, and began hauling lead for Maj. Rountree; he was known to have hauled some of the heaviest loads that ever left the place, and was a most expert driver of oxen. During the Black Hawk war, he served with credit, and later went to the Fevre River lead mines. In 1835, he married, at Old Belmont, Miss Amanda Eastman ; she was born May 12, 1812, near Dela- ware, N. Y. ; her early life was spent in Ohio and Indiana. In 1830, her parents, Moses and Elizabeth Eastman, settled at Belmont ; they were among those who " forted " at Elk Grove during the summer of 1832. After his marriage, Mr. Johnson spent three years on a farm near Horseshoe Bend, Fevre River. In the summer of 1838, he bought of Elijah Mayfield 240 acres, which is still in the family ; during the fall, his wife and himself erected a log house ; apertures for windows and doors were sawed out with a crosscut saw. Mr. Johnson standing on the inside and she outside ; this house stood on the site of that now occupied by Henry W. Johnson, and was torn down to make room for it when the latter married Maria Quimby, of Etna, Wis. Farnam Johnson and wife resided on this farm from Christmas, 1838, until his death, July 6, 1879. He left five children-Mary (Mrs. Johu Wallace) ; Elizabeth (Mrs. George Clem- mer) ; Nancy (now the widow of J. W. Humiston, drowned June 27, 1878, in the Gulf of Mexico) ; Henry W. and Warren ; Henry W. enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, in Co. E, 25th W. V. I .; served in the Sioux war in Minnesota, through the siege of Vicksburg, and fought under Sherman to Atlanta ; thence marched with him through Georgia and the Carolinas. He was discharged with the regiment June 21, 1865. Is now on the homestead, containing in all 390 acres ; Warren Johnson is also here, as is the widowed mother. The former married Phebe J. Dickinson, of Lima. Mrs. Johnson is the picture of a brave old pioneer lady, and enjoys the comforts of a well-earned home.

F. W. KIRKPATRICK (deceased) ; was born in Madison Co., Ill., Dec. 8, 1808. Went with his brother Jesse to Galena, Ill., in 1826, and in 1827, came to Platteville, Wis. Engaged in min-

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ing and smelting lead for ten years ; then went to Lake Superior and worked in copper mines ; from there went to Missouri ; then came back to Wisconsin ; stayed here two years and then went to Pike's Peak for one year, after which he returned to Wisconsin, and lived here until his death. Was married to Ann R. Hamilton March 12, 1851, who was born April 14, 1824, at Springfield, Ill .; have had four children, of whom only one is living-Mary Alice, who married Maxwell Fawcett, and now lives at Emporia, Kan .; those deceased arc Sarah J., twin sister to Mary A., Francis and Lillian ; the two latter are buried at Rock Church Cemetery, and Sarah was buried near St. Louis. F. W. Kirkpatrick died April 2, 1863, and was buried in Rock Church Cemetery. His wife lived for fifteen months after her marriage at Wingville, then moved on to the place where she now lives, and has resided there ever since with the exception of four years when she lived in Kansas. She is a member of the M. E. Church. The homestead contains 140 acres of land.

VALENTINE KRAMER, Sec. 4; P. O. Platteville ; was born Feb. 8, 1820, in Prussia ; came to America in 1841, landed at New Orleans ; spent a winter in the mines at French Village, Ill., and in March, 1842, reached Platteville; engaged in mining at Big Patch, Dodgeville and Beetown ; in 1847, he bought 80 acres of his present farm ; it was timbered openings, with only log buildings upon it ; has cleared some, and added 160 acres, part of which was improved before his purchase. He married Catharine Wonn, of Prussia, in August, 1847 ; they have eight children-Maggie, Mary, Henry, Valen- tine, Fannie, Minnie, John and William ; all were born in Lima as was Louisa, who died when 24 years of age. The family belong to the Lutheran Church.

A. V. KNAPP, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Platteville ; was born in Seneca Co., N. Y., June 27, 1832; came to Wisconsin in 1854 ; engaged in farming east of Lancaster in 1865; removed to his pres- ent place ; now owns 260 acres of land; enlisted October, 1861, in the 10th W. V. I., Co. F, as private ; mustered out December, 1863, as 2d Lieutenant ; member of Good Templars' Lodge. His wife, Laura C. Woldorf, was born in Harrison, Grant Co., Jan. 27, 1844; married Oct. 4, 1864; they have eight chil- dren-Fred W., born July 2, 1865 ; Frank S., Feb. 16, 1867; Sidney D. B., July 23, 1869 ; Clara L., Oct. 16, 1870; Charles D., Feb. 16, 1873 ; Jessie E., July 2, 1875 ; Horace H., Feb. 26, 1877 ; Arthur V., June 2, 1880, died Dec. 19, 1880.

THOMAS MCKOWN, blacksmith, Washburn; was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., Feb. 1, 1847 ; learned the trade of blacksmith at Wheeling, Va., then removed to Keokuk, Iowa, was engaged by the United States on the Government works; came to Wisconsin March 22, 1876, and worked for Mr. Harris; enlisted in the 129th Ohio V. I. His wife, Sarah Harsha, was born in Mifflin, Iowa Co., in 1856; married in 1872; they have three children-Elmer, Delia F., Herbert. In politics, Republican ; a liberal believer.

WILLIAM McCLURG, Scc. 19; P. O. Platteville; born Aug. 6, 1812, in Mercer Co.,

Penn. Married Miss Ann Manson, who was born March 7, 1817, in Venango Co., Penn. Engaged in farming until he came to Wisconsin, which was in 1843; they came via the Ohio and Mississippi to Galena, thence to " Whig," where they wintered ; the next spring he took up land on Buckwheat Ridge, and was there five years; afterward rented farms for a time, and, in 1843, settled on his present farm of 43 acres ; the log house and surrounding forest have given place to cultivated fields and a pleasant frame house. Mr. and Mrs. McClurg have three children-Mary Jane, now Mrs. Samuel Fraizer; James A. and Henry ; the two eldest were born in Ellenboro, and the youngest in Lima. Mr. and Mrs. McClurg belong to the Christian Church of Platteville.

JOSEPH O. MCREYNOLDS, Sec. 13; P. O. Washburn ; was born March 14, 1826, in Bond Co., Ill .; left there with his parents in 1836, and came to Wisconsin and settled on the farm known as the Conklin farm ; took poultry and produce to Old Belmont, where the first Legislature was then in session ; bought the farm he now lives from the Government ; owns 140 acres of land ; held office on Town Board in 1879, and has been on School Board thirteen years. Was married to Sarah Glenn, July 18, 1858; have seven children living and two deceased-the former named Walter E., William S., Jessie G., May C., Arthur V., Bertie L., Ethel M .; the latter named Clara E., Joseph L., both buried in the family cemetery on the place. The stone house which they occupy was built on the site where the old log cabin stood which his parents lived in, and has always been a landmark for travelers. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order at Mifflin Lodge, and also belongs to Lodge No. 28, I O. O. F. When Mr. McR. first came to Platteville, there was only one store kept by Maj. Rountree, and a blacksmith-shop.

JOHN McCLURG, Sec. 19 ; P. O. Platteville; born in Salem, Mercer Co., Penn., Nov. 16, 1803. Married Miss Jane Manson, of Venango Co., Penn., and came in 1844, to Wisconsin ; in May of

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that year, they began in a log cabin in the timber that then covered his farm of 60 acres. Mrs. McClurg died Oct. 27, 1856, leaving seven children-Henry, James, Louisa, Martin, Margaret, Albert and John ; the two youngest were born in Lima, and the others in Pennsylvania ; Louisa is now in Missouri; Henry in Washington Territory, while John is in Highland, Iowa Co .; Albert McClurg died in the Union serv- ice, and James, pressed into the rebel army, was killed by his own men. The second wife, formerly Han- nah Klingensmith, died Aug. 11, 1879. Mr. McClurg now leases his farm, and will probably spend the remainder of his days here. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

GEORGE MARTIN, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Platteville ; was born in Grant Co., Wis .; has always been on the farm ; now owns 80 acres of land. His wife, Sarah Chilson, was born in Adams Co., Ill .; her parents were old settlers in Wisconsin; her father died in 1869; her mother is now living in Liberty, Grant Co., Wis. Married, Christmas, 1876. In politics, Republican ; in religion, believer.

J. W. MORRISON, Sec. 17; P. O. Platteville ; was born in New Windsor, Orange Co., N. Y., in 1839 ; he resided as a farmer in his native county until 1855, then came to Wisconsin, and located on a farm in Iowa Co .; in 1858, he came from there to Lima; in August, 1864, he enlisted in Co. B. 43d W. V. I., and served ten months, or until the rebellion succumbed ; in the spring of 1866, he settled on his present farm of 73 acres. He married Miss Caroline, daughter of Luke Moses ; she was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, from whence her people came to Lima in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have three children-Wm. E., Carrie W. and J. Percy, all born in Lima, where the parents were married. Mr. Morrison has for the past six years been Town Treasurer of Lima.

ELIAS MEDLEY, Sec. 17; P. O. Platteville ; was born in 1810, in Trumbull Co., Ohio. Married Margaret A. Espy, who was born in 1810, in Camberland Co., Penn .; in 1846, they came via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Grant Co .; they began in a log house on 80 acres of the present 200- acre farm. They have seven children-Philo H., a twenty years' resident of California; Cornelia, now Mrs. J. Carson, of Kansas ; Robert E. and Alfred, now of Lima ; Thos. Jefferson, now in Texas ; Jane E., wife of Peter Klingensmith, of Lima, and Mary A., now Mrs. H. C. Haskell, of Lima. Mr. Medley has been a life-long farmer, and is now in broken health, partially caused by the labors and hardships in- curred by all early settlers in timbered regions.

LUKE MOSES, deceased ; was born in the year 1805, in Canaan, Conn .; when a young man, he removed to Ohio, and married in Hartland, Trumbull Co., Olive Dickenson ; she was born Dec. 1, 1810, in Cornwall, Conn., and was 6 months of age when her parents removed to Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Moses came to Lima in 1855, and settled on the farm where he died May 2, 1861 ; he left two children-Martin and Caroline. Mr. Moses was an upright Christian citizen, who lived enjoying the confidence of his fellows, and who died enjoying faith in the final reward of his Maker. His aged widow, still in full possession of her faculties, now resides with her only son, who inherited the homestead.

NELSON NEWMAN, Sec. 1; P. O. Washburn ; miller ; was born in Madison Co., Ill., March 15, 1830 ; left there with his parents in 1837, and came to Lima, Wis., where they built the first grist-mill in the town in 1840, and built the second mill in the village of Washburn in 1846; run this till the spring of 1868, when he removed to the site he is now on and built the mill which is now run by the firm of Newman & Wagner. Nelson was married to Louisa Melvin, Dec. 23, 1858; she was born in town of Smelser, Wis., November, 1841. They have six children living-Alice, Jessie, Jefferson, Inez, Frank R., Louisa G. and one deceased, Wilber, who died in 1864 and was buried in Washburn Cemetery Mr. Newman has been on School Board fifteen years, and on Town Board one year ; is also a Mason, of Melody Lodge, Platteville, and is a member of I. O. O. F., Washburn Lodge, No. 128. He is now exten- sively engaged in raising stock.

A. M. STEEL, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Platteville; was born March 8, 1830; came to Wis- consin in 1850, now owns 120 acres of land on which he has made the improvements; his wife was Miss Burney, afterward Mrs. Evans, a native of Wayne Co., Ohio; they married in 1862. In politics a Repub- lican ; in religion, Methodist. Has been Clerk and Director of Schools, also Assessor and Pathmaster.

LYBORN WELLS; P. O. Washburn; was born March 12, 1825, in Burlington Co., N. J. His father and mother died when he was 15 years old, and he was left alone to look out for himself; went to Harper's Ferry, on the Potomac River, and worked on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for two years, then came to Chicago, and from there to Joliet and worked at the carpenter's trade for the winter, and after that came to Mifflin, Wis., and engaged in mining till the spring of 1850, then went to California and returned in 1852, but went back and stayed one year more; then came back to Mifflin and bought. 310 acres of land from the Morehad estate, and farmed it one year, sold it and bought the Morehead Saw-

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mill, on Little Platte River, in town of Lima, and run it four years, after which, bought 160 acres of land from Gov. Dewey ; remained there two years, and then removed to Washburn, and has lived there since, except two years that he kept a Grange store in Platteville. Was married in 1854 to Emma Pullen, who was born in New Jersey Oct. 3, 1836; have five children-Lorenda, Allan V., Leslie K .. May C., Charles. Mr. Wells was Justice of the Peace for three years, also Assessor three years ; he kept a store in Washburn at the same time he was farming, and his son Allan was Postmaster.

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History of Grant County, Wisconsin, preceded by a history of Wisconsin, Part 149

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?] Number of Pages: 1050

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: [Chicago : Western Historical Co.?]
Number of Pages: 1050