BIOGRAPHIES: Alpheus G. SEWARD, Cedar Lake Township , Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, 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. Submitted by: Vic Gulickson 8 September 2004 ************************************************************************ Alpheus G. Seward, a representative farmer of Section 34, Cedar Lake Township, was born in Middleton, Wis., March 1, 1864, the son of Daniel and Prudence (Cooper) Seward, natives of New York state, both now deceased. He received a good common school education and early took up farming. For some years he farmed in Dane County, Wisconsin. In 1910 he came to Barron County and purchased his present place of 80 acres, to the development, improvement and operation of which he has since devoted his attention. The comfortable frame house was erected in 1916 and the other buildings have been put up as necessity has required. He has a good herd of cattle headed by a full blooded Holstein sire and a good drove of Poland-China swine. He is a man of good judgment and sound principles, who keeps well abreast of the times, and does his share in every movement which he believes to be for the public good. He is a stockholder in the Central Cheese Co. which operates the cheese factory and creamery in Cedar Lake Township. Mr. Seward was married at Freeport, Ill., to Josephine Stelmachowski, who was born in Poland March 13, 1880, the daughter of Thomas and Agnes Stelmachowski, now deceased, who brought her to America in 1880, and located at Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Seward have three children: Grace M., born at Paoli, Dane County, Wis., Dec. 8, 1902; Agnes, born at Paoli, Dane County, Wis., June 25, 1904, and Donald, born on the present place April 9, 1914. Grace M. was married at Rice Lake to Wesley David Snyder, born at Danville, Pa., on Sept. 28, 1896, the son of Wesley D. and Mary A.(Diehl) Snyder. He has purchased the Seward farm and is now conducting it. He is an active enterprising young man, and is well on the road to success. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 363 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm