Bio of Humphrey, Marcus A. (b.1808) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Humphrey, Marcus A., Lake City, is one of seventeen children born to
Theophilus and Cynthia (Hayden) Humphrey. The subject of this sketch was
born in 1808, at Canton, Connecticut, the native state of his parents. He
followed farming till the approach of age prevented. When thirty years old
he married Sina Fitch Chipman, born in New York, daughter of Lemuel and
Laura (Meade) Chipman, of Vermont birth. Mr. Humphrey became a resident of
Lake City in 1868, engaging in the loan and real-estate business. He is a
deacon in the Congregational church, of which himself and wife have been
members forty years, and is a republican from principle. During his
residence in New York, where he went when nine years old, he served his
town acceptably for several terms as assessor, and was six years an
efficient member of the Lake City school board. Of his six children, three
are living, as follows: Louisa F. (Mrs. C. D. Warren), Lake City; Marcus
C., Marshall, Minnesota; Laura (Marcus Carson), Lake City. The others died
at ages noted below: Alta, twenty-eight; Theophilus C., twenty-two; Nina
a, twenty-one.
Revolutionary War