BIOGRAPHIES: Lafayette E. LOSEY, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Victor Gulickson 14 March 2000 ==================================================================== Lafayette Edward Losey, a substantial and representative farmer of section 8, Sumner Township, was born in a log cabin in Calumet County, this state, April 24, 1861, the son of Isaac and Sarah (Scott) Losey, pioneers of that county. The subject of this sketch was reared amid pioneer conditions, obtained what schooling he could in the neighborhood and was also taught much by his mother from home books. He learned farming thoroughly from his father. In 1885, the family, then consisting of the father and mother, Lafayette E., and his sister, Ida Jeanette, started for Barron County, driving a horse team and bringing their equipment and the implements with which they were to subdue the wilderness. Upon their arrival here they located on section 15, Sumner Township, erected a log cabin and started to clear the land. Both parents are now dead. The father, who was a veteran of the Civil War, attained considerable prominence in the township, and he and his wife were both greatly beloved. Soon after the arrival of the family here, Lafayette E. secured a tract of 160 acres in section 8, Sumner Township, to which he has since added 40 more. When he took the place a log barn and crude shack had been erected. With this beginning he has built up a good farm. A feature of the place is a round barn, 56 feet in diameter, with a driveway and "L," 26 by 26 feet. The buildings are supplied with conveniences and advantages, including a good collection of tools, implements and machinery. The house was burned Feb. 17, 1921. On this place Mr. Losey successfully conducts general farming, making a specialty of Guernsey cattle, Duroc swine and good horses. As a believer in farm progress, he is a member of the Guernsey Breeders' Asociation and in the Farmers Co-operative Store at Canton. Since early boyhood, Mr. Losey has been an earnest adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been untiring in his efforts to build up the church in Sumner Township, he has taught the Bible class for twenty-five years and, next to his family, its welfare has lain closest to his heart. Mr. Losey married Grace Giles, who was born in August, 1868, at Janesville and died in October, 1917, at the age of forty-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Losey had six children: Harold L., Leon G., Bessie G., Roy L., Ernest I. and Valorice J. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 715-716.