Lamartine, Wisconsin

WARREl* ANDERSOIV, farmer; P. 0. Eldorado Mills, Wis.; born in Lewis Co., N. Y., May l(j, 1827 ; his parenti, Harvey and Betsey Anderson, were also natives of York State; in the fall of 1845, he, with his father, in a w.igon, started from the town of Claytoq, Jefferson Co., N. Y., for Wisconsin, coming by the way of Erie, Pcnn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, 111.; they arrived at the village of Fond du Lac in December of that year ; they came at once to the residence of Mr. Sauburn in the town of Rosendale, where they made their home for a few days ; his father entered a quarter-section of land in Sec. 36, town of Roiseudale, and they at once began to build a pioneer shanty thereon ; here, he with his father, kept bach through the winter, and by the spring of 1846 they had twenty-five to thrity acres cleared up ; hi.', father then returned to Jefferson Co., N. Y., for the other members of the family, and with them reached their Western home late in June of that year ; ten years later, his father sold that farm and removed to another on Sec. 32 ; here his mother died Feb. 23, 1859, and his father on March 28 following, leaving four sons, two of whom are now living - Warren, the subject of our sketch, and Charles, now of the town of Eldorado. June 11, 1851, he was married to Miss Marrietta T., youngest daughter of Phineas and Ruth M. Randall, immigrants from Crawford Co., Penn., in 1848, to the town of Lamartine, Fond du Lao Co., Wis., where her father died in 1850 ; they have had nine children - Susie E.; Warren R., now of Eldorado Mills ; Bertinc H.; Nellie B.. deceased; Emma B., Josephine B., Efla and Eva (twins), and John G. They attend the Congregational Church. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

REV. JABEZ B. COIjE, Pastor of the Lamartine Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Lincolnshire, England, Feb. 12, 1845 ; ho is the son of Rev. Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Brown, and with them. May 4, 1845, set sail from Liverpool for America, and landed in New York City in June folowing ; they came thence to Sheboygan, Wis., where they arrived the 1st day of July ; his father purchased a farm in the town of Green Bush, Sheboygan Co,, Wis., where he devoted much of his time to farming, and was local minister of the First M. E. Church of that town; the subject of this sketch spent the first nineteen years of his life on his father's farm and attending the district school ; he united with the church at the age of 1 1, and when 1 9 he entered as a student of the classical course at Lawrence LTniversity of Appleton, Wis.; at the end of six years, on account of limited means and ill health, he was forced to leave off his studies at college; he soon joined the conference and was ordained local Deacon ; in October, 1871, he joined the conference at Milwaukee, and was assigned to the Clinton Circuit; while there he pursued the course of study prescribed by the canon ; in 1872, he was sent to the Wyocena Circuit in Columbia Co., Wis., for two years. Here, Oct. 13, 1873, he married Miss Cecelia E., daughter of A. A. and Ruth Cole, early sottlers of Welsh Prairie. Columbia Co.; in October, 1874, he was assigned to Shawano, Shawano Co., Wis., where he remained in charge of the church for three years; in 1877, he took charge of the church at Markesan, Green Lake Co., and, in 1S78, came to the Lamarline charge ; they have three children, as follows - Jessie E., born in 1874- ; Mary E., born in 1876; Charles F., born in April, 1S79.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

LAWRENCE EXNIS, "farmer, Sec. 8; P. 0. Woodhull ; is a native of County Wicklow, Ireland ; born April 15, ISol, and is the son of James Ennis and Winford Doyle, with whom he made his home in his native country until 19 years of age. In May, 1850, he emigrated to America, and landed in Quebec, where he followed teaming for five years. April 18, 1855, he married Mis.s Letetia, daughter of Patrick and iMary Greening, nee Finland, of Canada West, but a native of County Monahan, Ireland ; they then went to St. Louis, Mo., for a few months, thence to Jacksonville, 111., for a short time, and lastly to Fund du Lac, where they lived fourteen years In the fall of 1808, he bought a firm of eighty-five and one-half acres in Section 8, town of Lamartine, where he has since been a farmer. They hid one son - James, deceased,' and are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Fond du Lac.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

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