From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse L. COREN, merchant, No. 83 Rose Street, has been a resident of La Crosse since 1868. He was born in Christiana, Norway, in 1845, son of O. O. Coren, who is still living in Christiana. Mr. Coren was educated in his native city, and came to the United States in 1866. He lived in St. Louis, Mo., one year, then came to Wisconsin, and lived in Edgerton one year, coming from there to La Crosse, where he was engaged in clerking in the dry goods trade till the spring of 1881, then started business for himself in present location. He was married, in 1872, to Miss Theresa Kjos, and has two children, Laura E. and Alfred T. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse A. M. CONGDON, carpenter and millwright, was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1852; learned his trade of G. W. Sherwood, of St. Paul, commencing in 1871. He has since worked in Chicago, Ill., Muskegon, Mich., Kansas City, Mo., Mason City, Iowa, and came to La Crosse in 1874. He has been in the employ of P. S. Davidson since January, 1880. He was married in September, 1880, to Miss Edna Brown, of Dakota, Minn. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

Thank you. That brings back memories. I used to sing in the choir at the Norwegian Lutheran Church, Dr. Amunson was the director and also directed the Logan school choir. Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: [WILACROS] Rev. Edward BORGEN Biography, b. 1852 NOR<WI<IA<MO<WI > From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 738 & 741. > > City of La Crosse > > REV. EDWARD BORGEN, Assistant Pastor of the Norwegian Church of La > Crosse, was born in 1852, in Spydeberg, Smaalenene, Norway, son of > Erik Borgen, who died in Norway in 1875. Mr. Borgen received only a > common-school education in Norway, and came to the United States in > 1868. He lived one and a half years in Rock Co., Wis., and from there > went to Decorah, Iowa; entered the Norwegian Lutheran College at that > place in the fall of 1871, and graduated in 1876. He then entered > Concordia Seminary, at St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from there in the > spring of 1879. The same year he was ordained to the ministry and > accepted a call from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of La Crosse, where > he still continues. He was married, Sept. 8, 1880, in Decorah, Iowa, > to Miss Ambjborg (Emma) Tobiason, daughter of Roland Tobiason, who > came to the United States in 1850, and is still living near Decorah. > He was from Slidre, Valders, Norway. > > [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm > posting this as a service and hope it helps!] > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881", p. 747. City of La Crosse MARSHALL CONANT, Land Commissionery of the S. M. R. R. Co., has been engaged in selling lands for this Company since December, 1866. He was born in Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., and educated to the legal profession, but practiced only a short time. He entered the general office of the O. & L. C. R. R. Co. in 1851, and was Chief Clerk in that office previous to his engagement with the S. M. Co. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse FRANKLIN D. COLVER, millwright and sawyer; born in Vermont in 1830; removed with his parents to Pennsylvania when about 1 year old; thence to Indiana when 3 years old, his parents being among the early settlers of that State. They afterward removed to Illinois, thence to the city of Oswego, N. Y. Mr. Colver went to Chicago in 1851, where he ran a planing-mill; also followed the lakes more or less for five years. He went to Iowa in 1856, where he was married to Matilda Collins. They came to La Crosse Co. in 1857. Mr. Colver enlisted in 1861, in the 8th W. V. I.; served about thirteen months, and was discharged for disability. He has seven children - Arletta, Alfred, Alma, Alvin, Abbie, Austin and Arthur. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse CHARLES L. COLMAN was born in 1826, in the State of New York. In 1840 he removed to Green Bay, Wis., with his parents, remaining there five years, when he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis. In 1854, he removed to La Crosse, Wis., and engaged in the lumber business, in which he has since been actively engaged. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse JOHN J. COLE, attorney and counselor at law; was born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1824; received a classical and scientific education at the Albany Collegiate Academy; graduated in 1840, and entered a law office as student at the age of 17; pursued the legal and classical course, which was then required for the bar, for four years, and at the age of 21 was admitted to the bar before Chief Justice Bronson, and to the Court of Chancery before Chancellor Walworth; practiced in Albany till his removal to Wisconsin in 1856, and in 1859 became law partner of William A. Tucker, at La Crosse, where he has resided ever since; has been candidate for the offices of City Attorney, District Attorney and member of Legislature, but, being always in the minority in politics, was not elected to those offices. He has been in no other business than that of the practice of the law, and incidentally dealing in real estate and loans; has been a Court Commissioner under the successive Circuit Judges during nearly all his twenty-five years' residence in Wisconsin. Mr. Cole is widely known throughout this and adjoining counties as a lawyer of great prudence, sagacity and perseverance. Well and correctly posted in legal matters, his opinions as to the merits of a case are generally sustained by the Judges, both of the lower and higher courts. As a collector, he has always been very successful. Of strict integrity and correct business habits, he merits the success that has attended his efforts. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 747. City of La Crosse C. A. COLBY, is a native of Norway, born in 1846; son of Anders Colby. He was married in Norway in 1870, to Lise Tostensen, and has two children - Lottie and Carrie. Came to the United States in 1872, and has resided in La Crosse ever since. He was in the employ of C. B. Solberg till July, 1877, since which time he has been in the saloon business for himself, now located on Pearl street. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 746 - 747. City of La Crosse GEORGE H. COGSWELL, blacksmith at the threshing machine works of Smith & Merrill; was born in 1822 in Londonderry, N. H.; son of Joseph Cogswell; learned his trade in Chester, N. H., commencing in 1840; came to Wisconsin in 1846; lived in Geneva, Walworth Co., two years; Oshkosh, two years, and afterward lived in Portage City and Marcellon, Columbia Co., and in Rushford and Hokah, Minn., and came to La Crosse in 1865. He was in the Quartermaster's Department at Nashville, Tenn., six months, during the war of the rebellion. He lived in Nashua, N. H., from 1872 till 1877, and since that in La Crosse. Has six children - Emaline M., John C., Joseph E., George H. H., Carrie and Lillie May. His wife, to whom he was married in 1845, was Sarah Jane Wells, of Greenfield, Huron Co., Ohio. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 746. City of La Crosse JAMES CLIFFORD, shoemaker; has resided in La Crosse since Aug. 27, 1853, and has been in his present business during the whole time, having been the longest here of any shoemaker in the city. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1822; son of Thomas Clifford; lost his father when 14 years old, and his mother one year afterward; came to America in the spring of 1843; lived in Montreal, Canada, one year, which time he served at the shoemaker's trade, and came to the United States in the spring of 1844. He worked in Whitehall and Troy, N. Y., three years; then a short time in Upper Canada, and afterward worked in Lexington, Cincinnati and Springfield, Ohio; Galena, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; Natchez, Miss.; Louisville, Ky.; La Fayette, Ind., and Dubuque, Iowa, and came to La Crosse in 1853 on the 27th day of August. He was married in September, 1860, to Catharine McHugh, and has five children - Thomas, Henry, William, Rosa and James. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 746. City of La Crosse PROF. J. J. CLEVELAND, Principal of the First Ward School of La Crosse; has been in his present position since the spring of 1877. He was born in Boston, Mass., in 1847; son of Henry C. Cleveland, who removed to New York City in 1854, and died there in 1860. Oct. 1, 1861, Mr. Cleveland enlisted in the 10th Conn. V. I., Co. K, and was in the service three years and four months. He was twice wounded during his term of service. The first was only a flesh wound received at the battle of Roanoke Island, Feb. 8, 1863. This was the first battle in which he was engaged. The second was a gun-shot wound in the right shoulder, received Aug. 1, 1864, on the James River in Virginia, which permanently disabled him, and in consequence of which he was discharged in January, 1865. In the fall of 1867, he came West and entered the State Normal School at Mankato, Minn., from which he graduated in June, 1873. He taught three years in Blue Earth City, Minn., and came from there to La Crosse in 1877. He was married in March, 1871, in Blue Earth Co., Minn., to Miss Maggie, daughter of John Shields, of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have four children - Lizzie, May, Bertha and Grace. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 746. City of La Crosse JOSEPH CLARKE, of the firm of Lloyd & Clarke, was born in the city of Philadelphia Jan. 16, 1841. He began his career at La Crosse, in the house of Lloyd & Supplee, in the spring of 1862. In 1868, he married Miss Anna M. Custer, sister of Mrs. W. J. Lloyd. The house of Lloyd & Clarke has always been active in public matters, and especially enterprising in commercial affairs. The Board of Trade has received much valuable aid from the individuals of this firm, Mr. Clarke, having served two years as Vice President and two years as President of the Board. While none of the gentlemen connected with the firm have been active politicians, yet twice has the house been called on to fill the office of Mayor, Mr. W. J. Lloyd, one of the original members, being elected to the office (over Col. Theodore Rodolf) in the spring of 1865; Mr. Lloyd, at that time, was only in the 30th year of his age. Mr. Clarke, after twice refusing a party nomination for Mayor, was, in the spring of 1880, induced to accept a non-partisan call to be a candidate for the office, and was duly elected thereto. The principal events of Mr. Clarke's administration were the erection and equipping of the City Pumping Works, which he strongly favored, and the attempt to secure legislation authorizing a special water-pipe tax against all lots abutting on streets where water-pipes had been laid, or might be laid in the future. This project was favored by Mr. Clarke and a majority of the Common Council, but, being left to a vote of the people, was defeated. (See sketch of W. J. Supplee.) [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 746. City of La Crosse SYLVESTER CLARK, foreman in the La Crosse Elevator of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co.; has been in his present position since 1872, and a resident of La Crosse since the fall of 1865. He is a native of Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., where his father, Charles Clark, is still living at 80 years of age. Mr. Clark enlisted in 1862, in the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, and was in the service three years. He was taken prisoner Aug. 24, 1864, near Petersburg, Va.; was at Belle Isle, Pemberton, Libby, and Salisbury, N. C.; was released from the last-named place on the 22d of February, 1865. After he left the army, he returned to Caledonia, N. Y., and came from there to La Crosse in the fall of 1865. He married in March, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Anna Simon, of that place, and has one child - Edna. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745 - 746. City of La Crosse SAMUEL CHILDERS, shoemaker on Third street; has resided in La Crosse since April, 1857, and been engaged in his present business during the whole time. He was born in Greenbrier Co., Va., April 22, 1824, and raised in Harrison Co., same State. Learned his trade in Virginia, and, in 1846, went to Letart Falls, Meigs Co., Ohio, having previously been married in Monroe Co., Ohio, to Miss Edith Bradfield. After residing at that place a few years, he removed to Mason Co., Va., and from there to La Crosse. Has six children - William, Martha, John M., Samuel, Alice and Charles. William is married to Olive Sterns, and has one child - Maude, and Martha is the wife of Simon T. Stain. John M. was married June 11, 1880, to Miss Minnie Brabander, and all reside in La Crosse. John M. is a stone-cutter by trade, and has worked at it since 18 years old. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745. City of La Crosse GEORGE T. CARLETON, merchant; is one of the pioneers of Wisconsin. He was born in Newcastle, Lincoln Co., Me., Jan. 2, 1805; son of Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Carleton; when about a year old his father removed to Kennebec Co., and he grew up to manhood on his father's farm in that county. At the age of 23, he engaged in the mercantile business, which he has continued up to the present time. While in Maine he was in business in Vassalboro and Waterville. In 1833, he married Eliza Drummond, who died in 1840, leaving two children (since deceased). In 1841, he married Miss Mary Dane, of Skowhegan, Me., and came to Wisconsin in 1843; was three days making the trip from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac with an ox team, with no road but an Indian trail. In the spring of 1844 he built the first sail-boat on Lake Winnebago, for the Indians on the lake and up Wolf River. He carried on business in Fond du Lac till 1851. About the 1st of July in that year he came to La Crosse, remained a few days, then returned to Fond du Lac, and came again in August. At that time he put up a building on Third street, where Giles's pork house now stands, for a store and dwelling. There was no lumber to be had in La Crosse at the time, and he purchased his at Robinson's Mill, and run it down the creek into Black River, thence into the Mississippi and to La Crosse. He burned his lime on a pile of logs for the plastering, and thinks this was the first plastered house in the county. After completing this building he returned to Fond du Lac, and, in November, 1851, removed with his family and a stock of goods to La Crosse; came with horse teams, and was eleven days on the road. He continued in business on Third street till 1869, then removed to Sauk Rapids, Minn., and came to North La Crosse in the spring of 1877. He was three years Alderman of the First Ward of La Crosse; has two sons - George T., born in Waterville, Me., and Fred D., born in Fond du Lac, Wis.; both married and engaged in mercantile business in North La Crosse. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745. City of La Crosse GUSTAV CARL, manufacturer of mineral and seltzer water, ginger and lemon beer, 77 and 79 Third street; has been in his present business since 1868, and has the only establishment of the kind in the city. He was born in Saxony, Germany, Dec. 23, 1836. He learned the bookbinder's trade of his father, Adam Carl, who came to America with his family in 1854, landing in New York City on the 5th of June. He located there, and Gustav worked at his trade in the city till 1856, then came West and worked in St. Louis, and Washington, Mo., Chicago and Milwaukee, returning to New York City in the fall of 1857. In the spring of 1858, the whole family came West, the senior Carl going to Chicago and Gustav to Milwaukee, where he remained till 1860, then came to La Crosse in March. In 1862, he went to Winona, Minn., and started business, but burned out a month after starting, and returned to La Crosse, and went into partnership with John Fox in the saloon business, which he continued till 1868, when he went into his present business. He was married in La Crosse to Miss Bertha, daughter of Ernst Herzberg, who came to La Crosse in 1856, and died there in 1879. Mr. Carl has four children - Gustavus, Bertha, Oscar and Albert. He was Alderman of the Third Ward in 1868. His father came to La Crosse from Chicago, and from there to Milwaukee, and died there in 1872. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745. City of La Crosse W. W. CARGILL, dealer in wheat; was born at Long Island, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1844. In 1856, he removed with his parents to Janesville, Wis., where they were engaged in farming, remaining there until 1863, when he went to Austin, and subsequently Albert Lea, Minn., where he was engaged in the wheat trade. In 1875, he removed to La Crosse, and continued the same business. He deals throughout all parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota Territory. The name of the firm of which he is now a member is Cargill & Van. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745. City of La Crosse P. H. CAPELLEN, merchant tailor; has been in his present business in La Crosse since 1868. He was born in 1827, in Evinghoven, Grefenbroich, Duseldorf, Rhenish, Prussia. Learned his trade while young, and has worked at it ever since, except ten years in the grocery trade, from 1856 to 1866. He was married in Prussia, in 1853, to Ceceilia Herbst, and came to America in 1868. Has five children - John (in business with his father), Eva (at home), Andrew and Peter (at St. John's College in Stearns Co., Minn.), and Catharine (at home). [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 745. City of La Crosse J. B. CANTERBURY, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1837; came to America in 1859; came to Beaver Dam the same fall. Enlisted in the 5th W. V. I. in 1861; served three and a half years; came to La Crosse after the war, in 1865, and commenced the grain business. Mr. Canterbury was married to Miss Katherine May Livingston in 1865; has no children. He is at present grain buyer on the Madison Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railway. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 744 - 745. City of La Crosse HON. HUGH CAMERON. The subject of this sketch, a native of Livingston Co., N. Y., was born at Caledonia, June 29, 1815. His parents, Duncan A. Cameron and Sarah (McColl) Cameron, were from Scotland, the father coming to this country in 1802, and the mother a few years later. The Camerons are of the Lochiel branch, Lochiel, the chief, being, according to the custom, of the Queen's household. Hugh spent his youth on his father's farm; he prepared for college in the institutions at Middlebury and Lima, in his native State, and entered the University of Vermont in 1834, and graduated with honor four years later, excelling particularly in German metaphysics, then taught by Prof. James Marsh. Returning to Western New York, Mr. Cameron taught in the Avon Academy in 1838 and 1839, reading law at the same time with Amos Dann. He finished his law studies with Hastings & Husbands, of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1841, at the first term of the Supreme Court ever held in that city. After practicing a few years in Livingston County, he removed to Buffalo in the spring of 1847, and there built up an excellent law business, as a member of the firm of Wadsworth & Cameron, but seeing openings of great promise farther West, in the spring of 1858, he removed to La Crosse, Wis., his present home, and has here become widely known as a skillful and successful attorney. During the first six years in Wisconsin, Mr. Cameron was in partnership with his brother, Alexander, who went into the army as First Lieutenant, 1st Wisconsin Battery in 1861, and died in 1864. He was District Attorney at the opening of the war, having been elected two years prior to that time, when only about 22 years old. Alexander Cameron was a young man of much promise. In 1856, Hugh Cameron was elected County Judge, and held that office four years, and declined a re-election. The law has been his life study, his life pursuit, and he has no higher ambition than that of excelling in his profession. A prominent journalist, and neighbor of his for the last twenty years, in a private note says of him: "Few men have such complete mastery of literature in all its departments as Judge Cameron. His mental grasp, acquisitions, acumen and discrimination invest his utterances in genial conversation or legal arguments with strength and richness of thought and language, which are best appreciated by those who have the greatest opportunity to test and verify his powers and counsel, in which capacity he is employed by many professional confreres in Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota, such persons considering their cases not only thoroughly prepared, but fairly tried, after having undergone his scrutiny and investigation, as the court seldom 'overrules his decisions.'" Judge Cameron has not only a very fine literary taste, but what is not generally known, has written many able critiques and other articles for the periodical press; but such intellectual labor he does simply for recreation after more severe studies connected with his profession. He is of Whig antecedents, and for the last twenty years he has usually voted the Republican ticket. So thoroughly has Judge Cameron been wedded to the law, that for many years it seemed doubtful if he would ever form a more tender alliance, but, on the 2d of December, 1875, he was joined in marriage with Miss Caroline D. Starr, daughter of W. H. Starr, an early settler and prominent citizen of Burlington, Iowa, and a graduate of Yale College. Mrs. Cameron is a well educated and highly accomplished lady. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]