This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fisk, Pierce Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wEC.2ACE/1305 Message Board Post: R. FISK, merchant, Wonewoc.  The subject of this sketch was born in the State of Vermont, in 1833, and in 1835 the family moved to Erie Co., N.Y., where he lived about twenty years.  In the Spring of 1855, Mr. Fisk was married to Mary PIERCE; she was born in Erie Co., N.Y., in 1836.  Soon after their marriage, they started West, via the lakes, to Milwaukee; thence by train, arriving at Wonewoc, July 5, 1855, and immediately purchased 200 acres of Government land, and commenced farming, which business, in connection with hunting and trapping, he followed for ten or twelve eyars, after which he worked in a store, hunted and trapped until 1876, when he engaged in mercantile business, which he is still following.  Mr. Fisk is also one of the stockholders of the Case Wagon Company.  He has held various town offices, is a Democrat in politics, and a memeber of the A.O.U.W.  The children living are Julius B., Reuben H. and James. W. Source: Biographical history of LaCrosse, Monroe and Juneau Counties, Wisconsin, The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1892, p. 391