BIOGRAPHIES:  James Lester Carey, Dovre, Barron County, WI

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  James Lester Carey, the prosperous owner of the flourishing Oak Grove
Farm, section 5, east, Dovre Township, was born on the place where he now
lives, April 19, 1888. He attended the district school and was reared to
farm pursuits by his father. In 1914 he purchased 63 acres of the home
place, and in 1920 he added 100 acres more, making a fine place of a little
more than a quarter of a section. As a native of the township, and a
substantial property owner, he is vitally interested in its growth and
progress, and from boyhood up, has taken a firm stand for everything that
he has believed to be for the best interests of the community. He is a
believer in education, and has done good service on the school board. He is
a deep student of scientific farming, carries on general agricultural
operations and dairying, and makes a specialty of good horses, Jersey
cattle and Poland China swine. Mr. Carey married Bessie May Scofield, a
native of Augusta, Wis., and they have two daughters. 
 
--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 971.