Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Laughton, Charles A. 1851 - 
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  CHARLES A. LAUGHTON, one of the prominent business men of Litchfield, was born in
Platteville, Grant county, Wis., March 20, 1851, and is the son of George R. and
Mildred (Durley) Laughton. His father was born in Soho Square, London, Eng., June
27, 1820, and came to the United States in 1835, arriving in New York October 25. He
came to Southport, now Kenosha, Wis., with L. G. Merrill and John Nichols, who
brought some $56,000 worth of goods to that place October 30, 1842. In December
following, these parties sent him to Platteville, with a large stock of goods. He
became a large land owner in that county and lived on a farm in the environs of
Platteville until 1870, when he removed to that village, where he lives retired from
business. He was married, May 1, 1844, to Miss Mildred Durley, who was born August
8, 1828, at Greenville, Bond county, Ill., who died January 8, 1864.

   The elder Mr. Laughton owned and operated a splendidly equipped woolen factory
upon his farm, and Charles A., who attended school in the summer months, during the
winters worked in the mill, and there showed his mechanical ingenuity. In 1870 when
the place was sold, Charles entered the Young Men’s Academy, at Lake Forest, Ill.,
where he spent two years. He then entered into the mercantile trade at Platteville,
with his brother, but finding the work too confining for his health, entered the
employ of J. I. Case & Co., of Racine. The following spring of 1874, he commenced
traveling in their interests, as an expert, over the United States and Canada, and
has seen much of the world while doing so. He followed that line of work, in the
service of the same company, until September, 1881, when he came to Litchfield, as
the resident agent for Case & Co.’s threshing machinery. In the spring of 1887, he
built the machine shop where he does all kinds of repairing of machinery, especially
engine work, which he carries on in connection with his other business.

   November 10, 1887, C. A. Laughton was-united in marriage with Miss Julia Gratiot,
a native of Platteville, Wis., daughter of the late Lieut. Col. E. H. and Ellen
(Hager) Gratiot, natives of St. Louis, Mo., and Baltimore,. Md., and niece of the
late Hon. E. B. Washburn. While Mr. and Mrs. Laughton are not among the older
residents of the village, their genial dispositions and happy manners have won them
a high place in social circles. Mr. Laughton is ranked among the leading business
men of the place, and a bright future is evidently before him.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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