Bio of Mathews, Augustus (b.1837) Wabasha Co., MN
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Mathews, Augustus, farmer, was born in Sumner, Oxford county, Maine, March
29, 1837. Both his grandfathers were revolutionary soldiers. His father,
Winthrop Mathews, was a native of Maine, as was his bride, Miss Mary
Barber. Augustus Mathews was reared on a farm, and made good use of the
educational facilities afforded by the common schools of the Pine Tree
State. At eighteen years of age he took up carpenter work in
Massachusetts, leaving home to do so. This trade he followed several
years. In April, 1861, at the first call for troops, he responded by
enlistment, but his regiment (the 10th Me.) was not mustered in until the
following September. He participated in the battles at Winchester, Cedar
Mountain, South Mountain and Antietam, beside many less serious
engagements. Nearly one-fourth of the regiment was lost at Cedar Mountain,
and nineteen of his company of forty-six was lost. In the spring of 1865
Mr. Mathews became a resident of Mazeppa, where he continued to follow his
trade, and for three years was engaged in the sale of machinery. He is now
a member of the town board of supervisors; is a democrat, and a
Universalist. For ten years he resided on a farm of two hundred and forty
acres, which he still owns, one mile from Mazeppa village in Zumbrota. In
July, 1868, Mr. Mathews was married to Mirnette Woodbury, who died
February 25, 1880, leaving two daughters. Here are their names and dates
of births: Cora E., November 8, 1875; Susie M., May 14, 1878. On August
26, 1881, these children were provided with a foster-mother in the person
of Rhoda B., widow of Anson L. Carrier. (Mr. Carrier was one of the
pioneer settlers of Mazeppa, taking a claim in 1855 on section 9, where
Mr. and Mrs. Mathews home is now. He was a native of New York, and married
Rhoda B. Segar in 1868, having previously married Maria Tibbetts, who died
in 1864. Mr. Carrier died June 17, 1878, leaving no offspring. He was a
town supervisor at the time of his death, and had held the office several
years; was a stanch democrat, and was the candidate of that party for the
legislature in 1877. He was defeated by a very few votes, not withstanding
the district is strongly republican. During the last six months of the
civil war he served in the army.)