Predominant logging industries were in Brown, Marinette, Forest, Vilas, Sawyer, Washburn, Douglas, St. Croix, Dunn, Barron, Rusk & other counties north of Tomah, WI. Are you sure of the 1885 death date? Are you positive he wasn't killed in the Great Peshtigo Fire? If he was killed there you may not find info on him as many victims were unidentified. Can you tell us MORE about him? Rosemarie in Barron County.