This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TFC.2ACE/1.1 Message Board Post: >From the "History of Waukesha County" WILLIAM K. WASHBURN, was born in the town of Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Feb. 18, 1825; his father, Lewis Washburn, was a native of Taunton, Mass., and served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and afterward located in Genesee, now Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he married Betsey Kerne, a native of New York; they raised a family of nine children, with whom they arrived as emigrants at Oconomowoc, Wis., May 12, 1843, and located on a farm in section 31 of this town, where Mr. Washburn died in 1857, and his wife in the fall of 1868. William K. spent two years on the farm with his father, and in 1845, with his brother C. D. M. Washburn and C. Wood, built a small boat, and left Oconomowoc, sailing down the Oconomowoc River; they returned via Indiana, where they spent one year, and reached their home again in October 1846. He was employed in the spring of 1850, to assist in the engineering and laying of the Plank Road from Milwaukee to Watertown, and in 1852, at its completion, he was p! laced in charge of the men and repairs of the road, and remained in that position till 1855, when he resigned, having gone into the grain trade in 1584, which he continued more or less of the time till 1868; since that time he has been engaged in laying out and grading streets, making lawns etc.; he was Street Commissioner of the city in 1875, '77 and '78. He was married in September, 1855, to Miss Mary G., daughter of William J. Brown, a native of New Hampshire, but came to the town of Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1853; their children are Nellie, William K. Jr., and Harry. Mr. Washburn's family are connected with the Episcopal Church.