BIOGRAPHIES:  Edward N. STEBBINS, Sr., Barron, Barron County, WI

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Edward N. Stebbins, Sr., veteran of the Civil War, and for some years a
manufacturer of barrel heads and staves at Barron, was born in New York
State in 1835. He was a merchant in New Jersey, and later in Coudersport,
Penn., until 1891, when he came to Barron and opened a woodworking mill,
which he continued until his death in Sept. 19, 1903. He and his wife
assisted in founding the Episcopal Church here, and were active in its
work. During the Civil war he was appointed paymaster in the United States
Army, by President Abraham Lincoln, with the title of major. His offices
were at Washington, D.C. As part of his duties, he superintended the burial
of J. Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Lincoln. In Barron he was a
man of much influence and importance and served in a number of local
offices including that of mayor. Major Stebbins married Mary Treat who was
born in 1842 and died Jan. 5, 1909. They were the parents of 11 children,
of whom those now living are: Louise, wife of W. L. Morris of Aiken, Minn.;
Jessie W. now Mrs. F.H. Spencer of Cheyenne Wells, Colo.; Edward N. of
Barron; Isabell, who is librarian at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis:
Eugene B., a physician of Ironwood, Mich., who served with the rank of
major in the World War; Arthur P., of Barron; Harold D., a traveling
salesman residing in Chicago; and Helen A., who is a stenographer and
resides at Aiken, Minn.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 80.