Hi Listers, It has been suggested that the submissions of biographies to the Barron County Archives Website be posted to this list as well. Please let me, or Nance Sampson know your feelings about this change. We are doing this for you, and if for some reason it creates a problem let one of us know. Perhaps in reading these you will find an unexpected connection to someone in your research, we can hope anyway.. For the new subscribers, be sure to visit the Barron Co. Archives for the index of biographies and the previously posted biographies. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Harvey Lowell, who experienced pioneer life in Illinois and Michigan, and in Sauk, La Crosse and Barron counties, in this state, was born in New York State, of an old American family. He came to Illinois as a young man and there married Sarah Brandon, who was born in that state, descended, like himself, from a long list of sturdy American ancestry. In the forties he moved to a farm in Jackson County, Michigan, from where, in the fifties, he came to Baraboo, in Sauk County, this state. His next location was in La Crosse County, this state. Then in the late seventies, he and his wife came to Sumner Township, this county, and here spent the remainder of their lives. They were most worthy and God-fearing people, whose chief thought, next to their duty to their Creator and their fellowman, was the welfare of their children. Four of the sons, Eugene Silas, Charles William, Nelson and Albert Lowell, were Civil War veterans and became prominent and influential men in Barron County, and several representatives of the family make the county their permanent home. Harvey Lowell died Jan. 7, 1896, at the age of about 84 years. His wife died in October, 1908, at about the same age. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 725-726. Harvey Lowell, who experienced pioneer life in Illinois and Michigan, and in Sauk, La Crosse and Barron counties, in this state, was born in New York State, of an old American family. He came to Illinois as a young man and there married Sarah Randolph, who was born in that state, descended, like himself, from a long list of sturdy American ancestry. In the forties he moved to a farm in Jackson County, Michigan, from where, in the fifties, he came to Baraboo, in Sauk County, this state. His next location was in La Crosse County, this state. Then in the late seventies he and his wife came to Sumner Township, this county, and here spent the remainder of their lives. They were most worthy and God-fearing people, whose chief thought, next to their duty to their Creator and their fellow-man, was the welfare of their children. Three of the sons, Eugene Silas, Charles William and Nelson, became prominent and influential men in Barron County, and several representatives of the family make the county their permanent home. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 809.