Hi Listers.. An index to the biographies in the History of Barron County, 1922, and those previously submitted are available at the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Transcribed by Peg Lamkin, brinwood@chibardun.net. Edited and submitted by Victor Gulickson. James Post was born in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry, and became a millwright and miller. He married Axa Hurlehy, who also was born in Pennsylvania. They brought their family to Wisconsin in 1855 and settled in Iowa county. The land was all wild, and the nearest railroad was at Madison, fifty miles away. There were no roads and few trails. Settlers were few and far between. Wild game was plentiful, and the Indians were camped on every side. For a year the family lived in a log house with a sod roof, on Otter creek. Then they moved onto a claim which they purchased from the government, and which they had cleared by hired labor. With this beginning they developed a good pioneer farm, Mr. Post in the meantime working at his trade in various places. In 1871 he sold the farm and moved to Avoca, in the same county. In 1872 he moved to Indiana, and there built and operated a mill near Lima. Later he again came to Wisconsin and settled in Richland county. In 1885 he came to Barron City where he died in 1910. His wife died in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Post were the parents of ten children: Julia, deceased; John, deceased; Ellen and William, deceased; De Witt, of Barron City; Frank, deceased; Jean, of Minneapolis; George, of Barron City; and Emma and James, who died in infancy. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 81.