BIOGRAPHIES:  James Carey, Chetek, Barron County, WI

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  James Carey, a pioneer hotel keeper of Chetek, was born in New York State,
his father being a native of that state, and his paternal grandfather of
Ireland. He came west to Janesville, Wis., as a young man, and engaged in
lumbering. In that city he was married to Mary McDaniels, whose parents
were of Scotch birth. From Janesville they went to Wausau, where he was
similarly employed. Then they pre-empted a farm of 80 acres in Steele
County, Minn., which they developed, and where they farmed for several
years. In 1867 they came to Barron County, and homesteaded 160 acres of
wild land in what is now Chetek Township. This farm they partly cleared,
erected log buildings, and gradually developed a fair place. They were
among the earliest settlers, and underwent all the privations of pioneer
life. In the meantime, they conducted a small log hotel at Chetek for
Knapp, Stout & Co. After a busy life they retired but still retained the
ownership of their farm until about the time of his death, when it was sold
in two tracts of 80 acres each. He died about 1900, his wife having passed
away about 1889. In the family there were seven children. William W. is a
retired farmer of Chetek. Lydia died at the age of eleven years; James at
the age of seven years, and Love at the age of twelve years. Pearl is in
Chicago. She has been a Red Cross nurse and is now a captain in the
Salvation Army. Melissa is in Minneapolis. One unnamed child died in
infancy.
 
--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 941.