Bio of Wilcox, Ozias (b.1824) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Wilcox, Ozias, (page 1278), born in 1824, died January 1, 1876. Mr.
Wilcox' father was a harnessmaker, and resided at Crown Point, New York,
where our subject was born and spent his earlier years. When he was about
fifteen he went to Perry, Lake county, Ohio, and became a sailor on the
lakes. From 1852 to 1854 he was in California, from which country he
returned with a small capital, which he invested in the forwarding
business, with headquarters at Fairport, in copartnership with his
brother, B. O. Wilcox. Owing to ill health, he soon resumed the life of a
sailor, in charge of one of his own ships. After a year of lake life he
found his health still greatly impaired, and pursuant to the advice of his
physician came to Minnesota. This was in the spring of 1856. He bought
forty acres of Hugh Wiley, along the eastern side of the southest quarter
of section 8, in Plainview, and erected a store and dwelling in one
building (the same is now used by the Plainview Bank), and also took up a
homestead-claim south of the village. Mr. Wilcox at once assumed a
leadership in the affairs of the new town, and up to the time of his death
exerted a beneficial influence in all public matters touching the
interests of Plainview, where he engaged successfully in the mercantile
business until the close of his life. In his early life Mr. Wilcox had few
educational advantages, and acquired but a poor common-school education;
he, however, had studious tastes, and aspired to gain a broader knowledge
of literature and science than the masses find sufficient. All the leading
literary periodicals and journals of the day were his constant reading. He
was married to Martha Stearns, daughter of Asaph Sterns (sp?), of northern
Ohio, December 15, 1854. This lady, who survives her husband, was born in
St. Lawrence county, New York, February 18, 1828, and now resides in
Minneapolis. Four children are now living: Helen J. (wife of Dr. G. E.
Ricker), Northfield; Asa F., medical student in Philadelphia; Cassius C.,
Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, and Frances L., attending school in Boston,
Massachusetts.
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