Bio of Wildes, Ephraim (b.1794) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Wildes, Ephraim, (deceased) was one of the earliest settlers in
Greenfield. He was born in Phippsburg, Maine, in 1794, and died in Cook's
Valley in April, 1860. Judith Blaisdell, to whom he was married at Bath,
was born in the same state in 1800. For many years they dwelt in Bath, and
Mr. Wildes commanded a schooner engaged in the coasting trade. In 1854 he
came to Greenfield, and took up the northeast quarter of section 34. Next
year he moved to section 30, where he put up the first framed house in the
township. He was the father of nine children, the eldest, Ephraim Madison,
being fatally shot here in a claim dispute. Esther (Norton) resides in
Maine. Zina died in New Orleans, and Silas in California. Asa was shot in
some border trouble in Nevada. Annie (Mrs. S. A. Kempe) dwells in Red
Wing, and Francis H. in Aurora county, Nevada; Merinda (Steele), at Maiden
Rock, Wisconsin. A sketch of the youngest is hereunto appended (Andrew J.
Wildes).