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!]