Bio of Laurence, J. G. (b.1836) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Laurence, J. G., president of the Wabasha Mill Company, is a native of
Syracuse, New York, where he was born May 1, 1836. In 1862 he came to
Wabasha county and opened a farm of eleven hundred acres five miles
southeast of town, at what is now known as Midland Junction, the
intersection of the Midland railroad with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul. This farm Mr. Laurence continues to operate, growing grain and
raising stock, of which latter there are at present on the ranch forty
head of cattle, three hundred hogs, twenty head of horses and five hundred
sheep. Mr. Laurence has been more or less in public life since removing to
the county. He was elected county commissioner in 1864, serving two terms;
was register of deeds from 1872 to 1875; was elected a member of the state
senate in 1880 and re-elected in 1882; and is now serving his third term
as mayor of the city of Wabasha. That he has been thoroughly identified
with all the interests of the city, its railroads, improvements,
industries, etc., will be fully apparent on reading the history of the
various enterprises in which he has taken part. Mr. Laurence was married
June 6, 1872, to Miss Alice G. Wyman, of Wabasha. They have two children:
W. Hamilton, born February 24, 1875, and C. Wyman, born November 25, 1879.