BIOGRAPHIES:   Edward MASSIE, Dallas Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  03 September 2003
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Edward Massie, a modern farmer of Section 20, east, Dallas Township, was
born in Gallia County, Ohio, Dec. 21, 1872, the son of Benjamin and Hannah
(Sims) Massie, who brought him to this township in 1874. Here he was reared
and educated and learned farming from his father. In 1887 he and his
brother, Gomer R., bought their father's original homestead. In 1900 he
sold out to his brother and purchased his present farm. To the development
and operation of this place he has since devoted his attention. He has
renovated the house and improved the buildings and cleared an additional 20
acres of land. He has put up a barn and furnished it with full Louden
equipment. Both house and barn are lighted by electricity and supplied with
running water. Mr. Massie has been active in public affairs and has served
as a member of the town board. He is a stockholder in the Dallas Telephone
Co. He is successfully carrying on general farming along the latest
approved lines, and is a man of influence and standing in the community.
Mr. Massie was married Dec. 15, 1900 to Mary Sigler, who was born in
Lagrange County, Indiana, Aug. 24, 1874, daughter of Samuel and Jennie
(Yarwood) Sigler. Mr. and Mrs. Massie have four children: Velma E., born
Dec. 13, 1901, who is teaching at Winters, Wis.; Phoebe W., born May 15,
1904, who is attending the Wisconsin State Normal School at Eau Claire,
Wis.; Joseph F., born June 8, 1906, who is working on the home farm, and
Wayne E., born Dec. 8, 1911, who is making a good record at school.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 860.


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