BIOGRAPHIES:  Peter W. CASWELL, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  13 January 2004
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Peter W. Caswell was one of the early settlers of the upper Mississippi
region. He and his wife, Nancy Henry, were both born in New York state, of
Colonial stock. They came up the river with the pioneers and settled across
the river from Stillwater, in St. Croix County, Wis. The country was then
wild, and the Indians unfriendly. One of the sons, Peter, was stolen by the
red men. John Caswell was a veteran of the Civil War. During the Minnesota
Sioux Indian uprising in 1862, he and Walter Hill were dispatch bearers.
From St. Croix County the family moved to Pierce County, in this state, and
settled at Maiden Rock, where the father and mother died. The children in
the Caswell family who grew to adult years were Francis (deceased),
Catherine, Deloss, Peter (deceased), William (deceased) and Merton.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 491.

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