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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM E. MADISON, mayor of Worthington, and member of the firm of Oliver &

Madison, proprietor of the Worthington meat market, has lived in Nobles county

since he was three years old. He was born in Columbia county, Wis., April 16,

1868, the son of William and Sarah G. (Ellis) Madison. William Madison, Sr., was

born in Lincoln, England, came to the United States in 1848, to Nobles county in

1871, and died in Wisconsin. Our subject's mother was also born in England. She

now resides in Wisconsin.



  On November 22, 1871, when the first Nobles county town was just being

founded, the Madison family came to Worthington. The head of the family took as

a homestead claim the northwest quarter of section 4, Lorain township, a few

miles northeast of the town, and that was the family home five years. The family

home was then established in Worthington, where the elder Madison purchased the

meat market then owned by Otis Bigelow. He conducted that until 1884, when he

returned to his old home in Wisconsin. The subject of this sketch, however,

remained in Worthington, and that has been his home ever since. He secured an

education in the Worthington public schools, and during the last few years his

father was in business there assisted in the shop. After Mr. Bigelow again

entered into the butchering business Will Madison took a position with him,

learned the butcher's trade, and, with the exception of a few years, has

followed that occupation ever since. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Madison and

William E. Oliver purchased the Bigelow market, and under the firm name of

Oliver & Madison conducted the store until November, 1901, when they sold to E.

L. Nance. Thereafter until Feb. 1, 1907, the partners were engaged in the stock

business. Then they repurchased the meat market and have since been its
proprietors.



  Mr. Madison has taken an active part in village affairs, and on numerous

occasions has been called to serve the city in an official capacity. He served

as a member of the council in 1898-99-01 and 1905, was village recorder in 1904,

and president of the council in 1906, and was again elected to that position in

1908.



  At Lake Park, Iowa, on Oct. 15, 1894, occurred the marriage of Mr. Madison to

Clara C. Pearson. To them have been born two children—Marie and Helen.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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