BIOGRAPHIES:  William W. Carey, Chetek, Barron County, WI

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  William W. Carey, who has seen the county grow since the early days and is
now a retired farmer of Chetek, was born in Wausau, Wis., Nov. 15, 1851,
son of James and Mary (McDaniels) Carey, the pioneers. He spent a part of
his boyhood in Steel County, Minnesota, and came to this county with his
parents at the age of fifteen. His first employment was on the construction
work of the dam at Cranberry Creek, for Knapp, Stout & Co., with whom he
subsequently remained for several years. In 1874 he took a homestead in
Section 5, Township 32, Range 10, Dovre Township, and on this farm
continued farming operations for many years. He broke 125 acres, erected a
house, barns and other buildings, constructed fences, purchased tools,
implements, and machinery, put in good cattle and swine, and built up an
excellent place. April 17, 1920, he sold the place to his son, James, and
moved to the city, where he now lives. Mr. Carey was married May 14, 1874,
to Elizabeth Bird, born at Blue Rock, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1856, daughter of
Washington and Lucinda (McGuire) Bird. Washington Bird was an early settler
of Barron County, a distinguished figure in the early days, and county
treasurer, county superintendent of schools, and county surveyor. Mr. and
Mrs. Carey have had ten children: An unnamed infant; Frank, Charles, Pearl,
Ethel, Theresa, James, Lucy, Lois and Belle. Frank, railroad man and mason,
lives in Chetek. Charles is a real estate dealer and farmer of Chetek. He
was married June 29, 1908, to Caroline Lena Hanson, daughter of Hans J. and
Dorothy (Larson) Hanson, now residents of Chetek. Charles and Caroline
Carey have one daughter, Bernice. Pearl married Thomas Lyons, of Chetek,
and upon her death left three daughters, Margaret, Lavina and Lucille.
Ethel married David Weldon, of Chetek, and they have two sons, Roland and
Alden. Theresa married Theodore Schaefer, of Maple Grove Township, this
county, and they have four children, Maurice, Ruth, Ethel and William.
James owns the home farm. He married Bessie Schofield, and they have two
children, Anna Belle and Dorris. Lucy and Lois, twins, are nurses in San
Francisco, the former being the widow of Scott Stewart. Belle keeps house
for her father.
 
--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 940-941