History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 161

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052


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AUGUST BRAATZ, dealer in agricultural implements, Wausau, came to Berlin with his parents and lived there on a farm until 1872 ; then he began farming for himself, and soon after bought a farm in the town Meeme. He moved to Wausau May 23, 1881, and engaged in his present business. He was born in Germany, August 16, 1845 ; he was married in Berlin Township July 21, 1870, to Mary Jacobi ; she was born in Germany, May 26, 1846; they have seven children-Ada H., Otto H., Albert A., Emma E., Amil F., Robert R., and Matilda L


JACOB X. BRANDS, Wausau, was born in Knowlton, Warren Co., N. J., March 11, 1818, and moved to Galena, Ill., in 1846; in hotel business there for two years; afterward kept what was known as the " Four Mile House," between Galena and Hazel Green. In 1850, he came to Grand Rapids, Wis., and engaged in lumbering for two years ; then built the " Half Way House" between Grand Rapids and Plover, keeping it for two years. He was then Under Sheriff at Plover for one year, and kept the Twin Island House at what is now known as Knowl- ton for two years, when he returned to Grand Rapids, built the Mag- nolia House and kept it for two years. In 1859, he returned to Plover, and kept the American House for two years. He was then for two years


United States Marshal for the Northern District of Wisconsin, with headquarters at Plover. The Winter of 1863 he passed in Washington, D. C. He then engaged in farming near Plover for two years ; visited in the East and South about two years; kept the Falls City House at Mosinee, Wis. ; traveled through the West with a team ; was weigh- master for a coal company at Moingona, Boone Co., Iowa, for two years, and was then foreman of the Northern Division of the Wisconsin Cen- tral Railroad, from Ashland, Wis., to Penokee, Wis. Mr. Brand came to Wausau in 1874, and was in real estate business the first year; Justice of the Peace from 1876 to the Spring of 1880; farming until 1881, and now advertising agent of land department of the Wisconsin Valley Division of the C., M. & St. P. R'y. Mr. Brand was married in Plover, in June, 1855, to his second wife, Jane Bacheler, who died in April, 1866, leaving four children-David H., Jacob I., William G., and Belle. Mr. Brand has one danghter, Mary, by a former marriage. He was mar- ried in August, 1876, to his present wife, Anna M. Rose, who was born in Connecticut.


ALBERT BRANDT, blacksmith, Wausau, was born in Germany, May 19, 1852. He settled in Wausau in 1874. He was married in Marathon County ; they have one boy, Otto.


JEREMIAH R. BRUNEAU, Wausau, was born in Maskinonge, Lower Canada, May 20, 1838. and came to Grand Rapids, Wis., Sept. 15, 1856, where he lived until May 21, 1857, when he came to Mosinee, Mara- thon Co., residing there until the Fall of 1878. He was elected County Treasurer, and re-elected in 1880. At Mosinee he was salesman and then book-keeper for Joseph Dessert, from 1857 to 1866. From 1866 to 1870, he was engaged in mercantile business, and since then in lumber- ing. He was Town Treasurer for thirteen years. Mr. Bruneau was married at Mosinee, July 3, 1874, to Ellen M. Smith, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M.


ELISHA L. BUMP, attorney at law, Wausau, was born July 10, 1849, in Otsego Co., N. Y., and reared in Allegany Co., N. Y., living for a time in New York City. He came to Almond, Portage Co., Wis., in 1863, living there until the Summer of 1870, when he went to Wanpaca and was admitted to the Bar in the December term of 1870, and com menced practice in Waupaca. He came to Wausau in the Fall of 1871, and was in partnership with Willis C. Silverthorn, until 1875; then with E. L. Brown, of Waupaca, until the Spring of 1879, when he returned to Wausau. Mr Bump is senior partner in the law firm of Bump, Hetzel & Canon, of Wausau and Merrill. He was District Attorney of Mara- thon County in 1873, and has been City Attorney of Wausau. He was Chairman of the County Board of Waupaca County. He is a son of Barnet and Clarissa Simons Bump ; his mother died in 1876 and his father in 1877. Mr. Bump was married in Waupaca, Wis., in March, 1873, to Lillie Gurley. They have three children-Franklin E., Mary E., and Florence M. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge and Chapter; he was educated at Allegany Institute, of Almond, N. Y., and in the schools of Wisconsin:


DAVID C. BURNETT, City Marshal, Wausau. First settled in Sauk County, with his parents, in 1856, where they lived a short time, and then removed to Lodi, and lived until 1864, when he went with his parents to near Coldwater, Mich., where they lived about five years. His father died at Corinth, Miss., in the meantime, having gone South, to work for the Government. Then himself and mother returned to Lodi, where he made it his home, until the Fall of 1876. He then sold his place, and moved to Wausau, where he has since lived, engaged in lumbering. He was elected City Marshal in the Spring of ISS1. He was born in Gorham, Fulton Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1849. He was married in Lodi, in the Fall of 1874, to Louise Stahl ; she died Oct. 11, 1876. He was again married, in Wausau, June 6, 1880, to Elnor Haskin, she was born in Wisconsin, March 29, 1849. He has one child by his first wife, named Samuel D.


THOMAS FRANCIS CAFFERY, foreman in J. H. Clark, Johnson & Co.'s saw-mill, Wausau, was born in Montrose, Pa., Sept, 3, 1844. He settled in Grand Rapids, September, 1867, and lived there a short time, then going to Pine River Mills; he worked there fourteen months, as mill-man; from there he went to Merrill, and worked at saw filing and millwrighting, etc., and remained three and one-half years; then he came to Wausau, and has since followed his trade and railroad bridging. He was married in Preston, Wayne Co., Penn., Oct. 20, 1868, to Margaret A. Kane ; who was born in Ireland, in 1843. They have four children living -Mary B., Isabella, Richard F., and Thomas W. Caffery; Margaret R. is not living


WILLIAM CALLON, Wausau, was born in County Armagh, Ireland, Feb. 24, 1833, and came to America alone, arriving June Io, 1849. He was in Susquehanna Co., Pa., cne year ; in Clearfield Co., Pa., two years; then in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., until October, 1854, when he came to Stevens Point, where he was engaged in lumbering for three years. In 1857, he came to Wausau, and has since been engaged in manufacturing and dealing in lumber, and to some extent farming. Mr. Callon has been a member of the Town Board of Weston, and is now Receiver in the United States Land Office. He was married in Lumberville, Clearfield Co., Pa., in August, 1854, to Nancy Atcharson ; who was born in the


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town of Burnside, Clearfield Co., Pa. They have two children, Mary Jennie and William A. Mr. Callon is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and K. of H.


CHARLES W. CHUBBUCK, bookseller and stationer, Wausau, was born at Stevens Point, Wis., March 21, 1856, and came to Wausau with his parents, Jerome Walker and Caroline S. (Sanborn) Chubbuck ; when less than a year old. He worked with his father, at the printer's trade, for some time, then engaged as book-keeper for mercantile establishments ; for a time with the " Bank of the Interior." He com- menced business for himself in September, 1876, in the Post-office build- ing, where he still continues, dealing in books, stationery, confectionery, fruits, etc.


JEROME WALKER CHUBBUCK, Wausau, was born Sept. 24, 1813. Goffstown, N. H. Learned printing at Morrisville, N. Y., after- ward conducted newspapers at Hamilton and Cazenovia, N. Y. Came to Milwaukee June 20, 1837 where he helped as foreman to establish the Milwaukee Sentinel. Married to Caroline S. Sanborn, of Jefferson, Wis., June 17, 1855, who was born in Wheelock, Vt .. March 4, 1832. Came to Wausau February, 1857, where he established the Central Wisconsin, April 22, 1857, the first paper published in Marathon County ; sold out to Hoffman & Hoeflinger in 1862. Ileld the office of Clerk of Circuit Court from January 1863 to January 1875 ; was also Village Clerk for a number of years. Has been engaged in the printing business, and as editor or contributor to the city papers up to January, 1880, when he was stricken with paralysis and been confined to his room ever since. Ile has two children living, Charles W., born March 21, 1856, and Emily Helen, born April 23. 1858 Lost one daughter, Mary Everetta, who was born Nov. 18, 1860, and died May 13, 1872.


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JOHN C. CLARKE, Wausau, came to this city in November. 1845, and ran on the river as raftsman, etc., and for several years was cook on the drives until 1851. Ile then commenced running saw mills, and was pilot on the river and dealt in lumber until 1860. Mr. Clarke was born on the Isle of Anglesea, North Wales, Feb. 17, 1831, and came from there to Dane Co., Wis., in June, 1845. His parents, William and


Mary Ann (Burwell) Clarke never came to this country. He was mar- ried in Sycamore, DeKalb Co., Ill., Oct. 31, 1854, to Rhoda J. Put- nam, who was born in Somerset, Co., Me., in August, 1830. They have four children-Fannie E., Ann Margaret, Rhoda Jane and Mary Ann.


JOHN H. CLARK, of the firm of Clark, Johnson & Co., (the partners of which are W. D. Johnson, C. W. Johnson and Richard Clark) Wausau, was born in Easton, Md., Dec. 20, 1829. He came to Wisconsin, October, 1880. His residence is at Fort Wayne, Ind. He was married in the latter city, October, 1854, to Lydia M. Shippy She was born in Rutland, Vt., in 1828. They have had six children-Flor- ence ; Nathan, died April 13, ISSO; Richard, now at Wausau, engaged in the mill ; Jesse, Mortimer and Oliver, the three latter being at their home in Indiana. The mill of this firm was erected in 1881, and is sit- uated on the island opposite the city in the Wisconsin River. Its ca- pacity is 80,000 in eleven hours, and employs 150 men.


RICHARD CLARK, firm of Clark, Johnson & Co., Wausau, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., April 5, 1860. He is a son of Mr. J. H. and Mrs. L. M. Clark, of the latter city. He went as far as the high school there, but preferring business moved to Greenville, Mich., where he re- mained one year. From there he went to Coral in the same State, and lived there about one year. In June, ISSI, he came to Wausau, where he is acting as book-keeper and general overseer for the firm, in which he has an interest.


WILLIAM F. COLLINS, merchant, Wansan, was born in Water- town, Wis., April 8, 1849 ; lived there three years, afterward at Lake Mills five years; then lived in the town of Dayton, Waupaca Co., until he came to Wausau, May 6, 1871 ; clerked for James McCrossen until Aug. 25, 1876, when he entered into partnership with him and his son, Julian Adelbert McCrossen, which partnership continnes. Mr. Collins is a member of the A., F. & A. M.


LEOPOLD S. COHN, proprietor Cohn's Mills, one mile above Wansan, on the Wisconsin River. His mills were erected in the Sum- mer of 1877. The capacity is 40,000 lumber, 35,000 shingles and 10,000 lath, besides pickets, in one day. They employ twenty-five men in the mill and ten outside. Mr. Cohn was born in I'inssia, Aug. 27, 1843. He was married at Mayville, Dodge Co., Aug. 28, 1872, to Idella Bick. She was born in Saukville, June 14, 1853. Mr. Cohn first settled at Berlin, Wis., in 1856. Ile lived there two years with his parents, then he went to Milwaukee, where he remained two years. He then be- came engaged in produce business, buying furs, wool, etc., going as far north as Lake Superior, which business he followed until 1869. Then he became engaged in the lumber business on the Wisconsin River. He moved from Berlin to Milwaukee in 1876, where he lived until October, 1877, following the lumber business. From there he came to Wansau.


MICHAEL J. COUGHLIN, engineer of the fire department, Wau- sau, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, March, 1846. He came with his parents to Milwaukee, in May, 1856. His father was a railroad contractor and worked in the construction of several divisions of the C., M. & St. P. R. R. They were in Milwaukee a short time and then went to Horicon, and from there to Ripon where they remained more than a year. From there they went to Holland Township, Brown Co., and went to farming. and in the Spring of 1859, Mr. M. J. Coughlin went to Milwaukee, and worked in the railroad shops as machinist, September, 1860, he went to Memphis, Tenn., and was engaged as railroad engineer. June, 1861, he left on account of the war, and returned to Milwaukee on the Prairie du Chien division of the railroad and run an engine. In March, 1862, he engaged in the fire department for Milwaukee City, in which capacity he remained until September, 1876; he then became assistant chief engineer and super- intendent of machinery for the above city. In 1876, he went to Stevens Point, and run a steam fire engine for that city, until May 1880. Then he worked for Mr. John Wicks on the Big Eau Plaine, in the capacity of engineer, and was there until August, 1880. He then went to Stevens Point, and worked repairing engines until Sept. 1, 1880, then to D. Ilutchinson's mill, on the Little Eau Plaine River, and run the engine there until he came to Wausan, November, ISSO.


HON. CHARLES F. CROSBY, attorney at law, Wausau, was born in the town of Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wis., Dec. 12, 1847, and when he was nine years of age moved with his father, Elisha F. Crosby, to Dell Prairie, Adams Co., Wis., living there until the Spring of 1871, when he went to Luverne, Rock Co., Minn., and engaged in the prac- tice of law there. Mr. Croshy was educated at Bronson and Kilbourn Institutes, pursuing a collegiate course expecting to enter Lawrence Uni- versity. Ile was admitted to the Bar in the Fall of 1870. While in Minnesota, he was District Attorney, County Judge, and member of Assembly. He came to Wausau July 29, 1875, and was District Attorney in 1878, and elected State Senator in the Fall of 18So. He was married, Nov. 18, 1873, in Benton, Kennebec Co., Me., to Adassah C. Spencer, a native of Benton.


JOIIN C. CURRAN, Inmberman, was born in St. Amicet, Canada, Aug. 22, 1838. lle settled in Jenny, Lincoln Co. in 1855, where he followed his present business, and remained two years; from there he


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moved to Eagle River, and helped cut and put in the first logs in that section ; he remained there two and a half years, from there he moved to the mouth of Pelican River in the same county on the Wisconsin River, where he still does business. He occasionally lives in Wausau. He was married September, 1870, to Lizzie S. Sloan, who was born in Saint Edwards, in the Province of Quebec, March 20, 1849. They have four children-Mary J., Thomas B., Lizzie P., and Muriel J.


MORGAN G. DANIELS lumberman, Wausau, was born in Wash- ington Co., N. Y., Jan. 28, 1831. He settled in Wausau in 1854, and worked at his trade, the millwright, for twelve years; then he went into his present business. He was married at Stevens Point, in November, 1869, to Lydia E. Clement, who was a native of the State of New York. She died Jan. II, 1872.


WILBUR C. DAVENPORT, jeweler, began business at Stevens Point, September, 1873, and continued there three years and six months He afterward located in Wausau, where he again engaged in the same business. He was born in Portage County, Sept. 13, 1857.


PATRICK DELANY, dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, settled in Fond du Lac in 1856; lived there two years, then went to Oshkosh, and remained several years; from there he went to Baraboo Valley, Sauk Co., for five years, then returned to Oshkosh. In the Fall of 1872, he came to Wausau. He was born in Montreal, Canada, March 3. 1846. He was married in Oshkosh, April 28, 1870, to Joanna Sheehy, who was born in Ireland, April, 1846. They have five children-Alva M., Sarah B., Joanna E., Margaret E., and Jennie M.


ADAM DENGEL, merchant, Wausan, was born in Prussia, June 27, 1832, and came to Wisconsin in the Summer of 1846, with his par- ents. They located in the town of Addison, Washington Co .. living in that county until 1866. He was, for thirteen years, proprietor of the Hartford House, at Hartford, one of the first hotels in the place. Re- moved to Appleton in 1866. He kept a grocery in the latter place un- til 1876, when he came to Wausau, and engaged in general merchan- dising. Mr. Dengel was married in the town of Hartford, Washington Co., Wis., in November, 1853, to Mary Schwerbel, who was born in Hesse-Darmstadt. They have two children, John and Mary, now Mrs. John J. Sherman. Lost one daughter, who died June 26, 1867, aged seven years.


HENRY DREWSEN, saloon, Wausau, was born in Germany, Jan. 23, 1829. He settled at Two Rivers in 1856, where he lived twelve years, following the lumber business, after which he went to Manitowoc, and kept hotel until 1880, when he came to Wausan, and began his pres- ent business. He was married, in New York City, in 1854, to Dora Thea, who was born in Germany, Jan. 29, 1832. They have eight cbil- dren-Tony, Charles A., Amelia E., Theckla, Lewis, Delia, Lula and George. His wife died June 24, 1880.


MICHAEL DUFFY, groceries, provisions, liquors, etc., came to Wisconsin in April, 1866, and, at first, worked at the carpenter trade ; afterward ran a stage between Wausau and Stevens Point, for one and one-half years. Then he opened in the grocery business, and followed it until 1875, when he engaged in lumbering. In 1878 he returned to his present business, and has followed it since. He was City Alderman for two years. He was born in Seneca County, New York, Nov. I. 1833. lle was married at Wausau, Jan. 20, 1861, to Paulina A. Kopp- lin, who was born July 4, 1840. They have ten children living-Mary J., Anna, Charles T., Paulina, Henry, Frank M., Edward, I.aura, Mabel and Florence. They lost one son, Robert J.


CHARLES F. DUNBAR, jeweler and lumber manufacturer, Wau- sau, was born in Belchertown, Mass., Oct. 8, 1845, and learned the jew- eler's trade in Amherst, Mass. He came to Wisconsin in 1867, locating in Hudson in 1868, engaging in jewelry business there until 1872, when he removed to Menasha, carrying on the same business there for two years. In March, 1874, he came to Wausau, and, besides his jewelry business, is considerably interested in real estate, having purchased a forty-acre tract of land-the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 26, Town 29, Range 7, East, which he has recently platted and divided into city lots, and has already ( June, 1881) sold thirty-six lots. He has been in the lumber business for about three years. He is a member of the firm of Dana, Dunbar & Co., manufacturers of "The National Portable Forge," and is one-half owner of the Marathon Lum- ber Co., manufacturers of pine lumber, shingles, lath, pickets, etc .; he owns considerable tracts of pine lands. Mr. Dunbar was married, in Wausau, Nov. 20, 1876, to Letitia Single, who was born in Wausau. They have had two children, Mary Elizabeth, born March 31, 1881, and Roy Earl, born Dec. 25, 1877, and died June 16, 1881.


JOHN EGELER, boarding house and saloon, Wausau. Cameto Wau- sau in the Fall of 1868, and kept a tin shop for nine years, when he sold his interest and began his present business. He was born in Germany, March 21, 1837. He was married in Canajoharie, N. Y., April, 1865, to Margaretta Shwartz, who was born in Germany, November, 1836. They have eight children-Mary S., Katie M. C., Delia, John, Otto, Louisa, Caroline and Margaret. They have lost two, Emma and Carl.


CHARLES F. ELDRED, Wausau. Was born in Warren, Warren Co., Pa., Feb. 28, 1841, and was reared at Honesdale, Wayne Co., Pa., coming from there to Grand Rapids, Wis., and then to Wausau. Mr. Eldred was admitted to the Bar in December, 1861, and engaged in practice until the Fall of 1862, when he enlisted in Co. A, 11th N. Y. Cavalry, and served until May 28, 1865. He entered the service as a


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private, and was mustered out as first lieutenant of Co. A. Retmining to HIonesdale, he was engaged in the practice of law there until he came to Wisconsin. He has been District Attorney of Marathon County since January, 1880 ; also was District Attorney of Wayne County, Pa., for two terms, and served as Assessor of Internal Revenue from 1866 to 1869. He was married at Honesdale, Oct. 18, 1866, to Emma A. West, who was born in Bethany, Pa. They have four children-Nathaniel B., Mary HI., Arthur G., and Nina O.


GEORGE E. FERNALD, merchant, Wausau. Came to Rural, in the town of Dayton, Waupaca Co., Wis., in 1865, and lived there until September, 1866, when he went to Waupaca, and engaged in clerking for two years. He ther. came to Wausau and was book-keeper for John C. Clark for two years, then ran a store at Jenny for James McCrossen, and kept books for Scott & Andrews, at Jenny; then, for a year and a quarter, with R. E. Parcher, and with Parcher & Mauson fifteen months. He then purchased from Parcher an interest in the business, and the firm was Parcher, Manson & Fernald for four years; since then it has been Mau- son & Fernald. Mr. Fernald was born December 19. 1836, in Portland, Me. In December, 1862, he enlisted in the 19th U. S. Infantry. Hle was in the Army of the Cumberland, and served as sergeant-major. He was mustered out in December, 1865. He was married in Portland, Me., in July, 1855, to Eliza S. McCrossen, who was born in Carrolton, New Brunswick. They have three children-Clara E., George E., Jr., and Frederick.


ANSON A. FERGUSON, millwright and engineer, Wausau. IIe first located at Seven Mile Creek, in Fond du Lac Co. lle remained there a short time, afterward going to the Town Friendship, where he remained four years. From there he went to Stockton, Portage Co., at which place he remained for a number of years ; from there to Wausha-


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ra County, where he lived two years. From there to Seneca, Wood Co., where he began business for himself, and remained until the break- ing out of the war, when he enlisted in Co. K, Ist Minn. H. A., where he served one year and four months. He was discharged for general disability, at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 27, 1863. He then went to Olm- stead Co., Minn., and worked at the carpenter trade for three years, when he went to Marinette, on the Bay Shore, where he was engaged in build- ing and working mills. He remained one and one-half years, then he went to Sherwood, Calumet Co., and remained four years, and then went to Colby, on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, where he built a mill and ran it for two years, and then began business for himself. He was born in Cape Vincent, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Sept. 7, 1842. He was married at Shiocton, Outagamie Co., July, 1873, to Jennie Foster, who was born June 30, 1849. They have two children, Earl and Perlie.


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JEFFERY A. FARNHAM, Wausau. Came to Wisconsin in No- vember, 1844, and taught school the following Winter in Wauwatosa; spent part of the next Spring and Summer in Milwaukee. In the Winter of 1845-46, taught school in Troy, Wis. In the Spring of 1846, he lo- cated in Watertown, Wis., and commenced land surveying, being by profession a civil engineer. He continued surveying until the Spring of 1848, when he laid out and engineered the construction of the Milwaukee and Watertown Plank Road between those points, which occupied his attention about two and a half years. In the Spring of 1851 he went on the Illinois Cen ral road, and had charge of division con- struction in Illinois until the Fall of 1854. He was City Engineer of Watertown until he constructed the Watertown & Madison Railroad. He was in Watertown until June, 1858, employed as Engineer of Railroads, and at other work. He came to Wausau the last day of June, 1858, and organized and commenced a banking busi- ness, under the corporate name of the "Bank of the Interior," being himself president and manager. When the war broke out, Mr. Farnham had virtually become proprietor of the bank, and continued the business until Jan. 1, 1875, when the bank was merged into the Marathon County Bank. Mr. Farnham was president of the latter institution until 1877, when, on account of the ill health of himself and wife, he sold his bank stock, and moved to Clyde, Kansas, where he lived nearly two years, returning to Wausau in the Fall of 1879, and since then has been en- gaged in the real estate and tax paying business, dealing in scrip, land warrants, tax certificates, etc. In 1859, he was appointed County Treas- urer hy the County Board. He was a member of the School Board and held other offices before going to Kansas. Mr. Farnham was born in the town of Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Oct. 27, 1817, and was married in Jefferson, Jefferson Co., Wis., Sept. 12, 1864, to Mrs. Emily S. John- ston (nee Sanborn), who was born in Vermont, and died April 2, 1881.


She had one son by her former marriage, George S., who was born June 18, 1858, and resides in Wausau, being now in the employ of Dunbar & McDonald, lumber manufacturers. He was educated in the schools and academies of Wisconsin.




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