Bio of Stearns, T. P. (b.1848) Wabasha Co., MN
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Stearns, T. P. (page 1168), agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, and the Mazeppa Mill Co., at Millville, is a native of Columbia,
South Carolina, born in 1848. He is the youngest son of Arba and Catherine
G. A. Stearns, the former native of New York and the latter of South
Carolina. He resided some in South Carolina and Alabama, but when the war
began he joined Gov. Watts' scouts and fought for the country of his
birth, a lad though he was. When twenty years old he sought a northern
home, his southern one destroyed, and lived with his uncle in Monroe,
Wisconsin, for a time. Plainview, this county, was his next home, and
after clerking here for five years and then farming for three years he
came to Millville, the first express and railway agent and wheat buyer in
the place. His present standing shows he has made it a success. He is a
Master Mason, Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar, and has been an
Odd-Fellow. He was married in 1883 to Katie A. Holihan, of Wabasha, his
second wife. He has one child, Arba L., by his first wife.