BIOGRAPHIES:  Cecil E. STOW, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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Cecil E. Stow, well known truck farmer and fruit grower of Cumberland, was
born in Monroe County, this state, May 11, 1860, the son of Baron A. and
Zemira L. (Judd) Stow. He was reared in Faribault County, Minn., and there
attended school. He also attended the Cumberland High School after coming here
in 1881. At the age of eighteen he started teaching, and subsequently had
charge of schools in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, until 1907, a period of
nearly thirty years. He was a most admirable teacher who had the faculty of
inspiring the children to their best work, and his name is held in respect in
every community in which he taught. In 1907 he became a mail carrier out of
Cumberland, a position he held for twelve years. In 1919 and 1920 he went back
to his old profession and successfully taught in District No. 6, Cumberland,
forty-two years from the time he taught his first school. In the meantime, in
1883, he bought fifteen acres in the present limits of Cumberland. He cleared
the entire tract, erected a good set of buildings, and has developed a most
excellent truck farm and fruit farm. As an educator of superior attainments he
has naturally taken an interest in public affairs, and has believed in
everthing that has meant progress and development. For some years he has
served on the school board. The Pioneers of Cumberland, an association of old
settlers, have found in him an active and enthusiastic member. Mr. Stow was
married at Osage, Iowa, Nov. 23, 1881, to Mary J. DeFord, who was born at that
place, March 3, 1860, the daughter of Mathew H. and Ann Eliza (Allen) De Ford,
natives of Ohio and New York, respectively, who as young people moved to
Indiana, and later to Iowa, where the father still lives at the good old age
of ninety, and where the mother died June 4, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Stow have five
children. Elsie A. is the wife of M. H.White, of Arland Township. Zemira E. is
the wife of Walter Lathe, of Grand View, Wis. Hale A. is a banker in Daggett,
Mich. Cecil R., who served 18 months in the World War, is in South St. Paul,
Minn. Hoyt H. is at home. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 574-575.