BIOGRAPHIES:  John FERGUSON, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI

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John Ferguson, druggist of Rice Lake, was born in New York City, June 24,
1867, son of Herman and Margaret (Ino) Ferguson, the former a native of
that city, and the latter of Canada. They came to Saginaw, Mich., in 1867,
where the father was employed in the mills and in the lumber woods. He died
in 1881 and his wife in 1900. John came west with his parents as a child
and was reared in Saginaw. As a youth he worked in shingle mills and in the
lumber woods of the upper Michigan peninsula. From 1892 to 1898, he was
city marshal and deputy sheriff at Ewen, Ontonagon County, Michigan. In
1901 he engaged in business at Eveleth, Minn. In 1903 he moved to Mt. Iron,
Minn., in 1910 to Coleraine, Minn., and in 1914 to Superior, Wis., in all
of which places he was engaged in business. He came to Rice Lake in 1920
and opened his present drug store, where he carries a good line of goods,
and is enjoying an increasing patronage. Mr. Ferguson was married Feb. 4,
1895, to Martha Armstrong, a native of Saginaw, Mich. This union has been
blessed with two children: John Roger, born May 22, 1896, now living at
Superior, Wis., and Clara Lorette, born Feb. 26, 1899, who is at Superior,
assisting General Clemans in writing a World War history.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 190-191.


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