This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RMunns7272 Surnames: Putnam, Tupper, Anderson Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.lacrosse/2289/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 785. City of La Crosse W. R. PUTNAM, dealer in hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishing goods, No. 47 Main street, was born in Clark Co., Ohio, in 1846. His father, Rufus Putnam, born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1805, was a son of Judge Edwin Putnam and a grandson of Gen. Rufus Putnam, the first white man in Ohio. He was a brother of Gen. Israel Putnam, and, in company with Gen. Tupper, purchased 1,500,000 acres of land in what is now the State of Ohio, at 62-1/2 cents per acre, and in April, 1788, laid out the city of Marietta, this being the first settlement made in the Northwest. W. R. Putnam enlisted in the early part of 1863 in the 31st Ohio V. I., Company H, and was in the service about five months when he was accidentally shot and discharged for disability. He was afterward in the service about four months, under the hundred-day call, in 1864. He resided in different parts of Ohio till 1867, the last four years in Cincinnati; came from there to Chicago, and from Chicago to La Crosse, in 1873, to acc! ept a position in the dry goods house of Mons Anderson, where he remained four years, since which time he has been in his present business. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.