Bio of Cornwell, Elijah Roscoe (b.1847) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Cornwell, Elijah Roscoe, junior member of the Plainview hardware firm of
C. C. Cornwell & Son, was born in Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, September
17, 1847. His youth was chiefly spent on a farm in Lowell, Dodge county,
Wisconsin, whither his father removed when E. R. was about six years old.
He acquired the rudiments of an education in a district school, and in his
seventeenth year, spring of 1864, he enlisted as a volunteer in the 39th
Wis., and served about six months under Gen. C. C. Washburn at Memphis,
being there at the time Forrest made his raid. From the spring of 1865 to
the spring of 1867 he worked as a mill-hand in the Winnebago City Mills.
He then came to Plainview, where his father was living, and the next year
became a partner with Henry Horton in a wagon-shop. This copartnership was
dissolved in 1873, when he found employment as a clerk in his father's
hardware store, where he became a partner in 1876. In 1869, November 29,
he married Emily Adell Burchard, daughter of the late R. Burchard, a
prominent business man and pioneer of Plainview. To this worthy couple the
following children have been born, namely: Florine, April 13, 1871;
Charles, December 25, 1872; Nellie (deceased), October 16, 1876; Florence,
July 17, 1878; Frankie, August 18, 1880; and Baby, April 27, 1883. Mr.
Cornwell is a worthy member of Illustrious Lodge, No. 63, A.F.A.M., and
Chapter, No. 36; also a Sir Knight, and bears a sword in Home Commandery,
No. 5, of Rochester.
War of 1812
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm
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of the bios on her pages.

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