BIOGRAPHIES:  Abraham O. CORNWALL, Turtle Lake, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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Abraham 0. Cornwall, business man of Turtle Lake, was born in Cornwell,
Province of Quebec, Canada, May 4, 1861, son of Thomas and Sarah (Ervin)
Cornwall, natives respectively of England and Canada. The father died when
the subject of this sketch was an infant, and the mother brought the family
to the States, and settled at Augusta, Wis. There young Abraham 0. was
reared and educated, graduating from the Augusta High School in 1879. For
some years he worked on the home farm helping to support the family. At the
age of twenty he located in Perley, Barron County, this state, and for six
years was employed in the lath mills. In 1884 he bought 60 acres of land in
Section 17, Almena Township. This was all wild. He broke and cleared it,
and carried on general farming for some years. In 1912 he came to Turtle
Lake, and for five years he worked in a potato house. In 1917 his son
purchased the present pool and billiard hall, and since that time he has
been in that business. Mr. Cornwall was married at Perley Nov. 5, 1884, to
Bettie A. Bensend, daughter of John and Christine (Anderson) Bensend, early
settlers of Almena Township. Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Cornwall there are now living four. William B. is a physician of Amery,
this state. Arthur G. is a progressive business man of Turtle Lake. Leslie
L. lives in St. Paul. Anna is employed in the Security State Bank of Turtle
Lake.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 171.


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