BIOGRAPHIES:  Dewitt C. STRONG, Chetek, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  26 May 2005
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Dewitt C. Strong, a prosperous real estate man of Chetek, formerly a
railroad man and merchant, was born in Lowville, Columbia County, this
state, Sept. 26, 1862, son of Dr. Dewitt C. and Sarah (Bliss) Strong. He
was brought to Barron County as a boy and completed his schooling in Sumner
Township. As a youth he became a telegraph operator and was employed for a
while with the Omaha road at Chetek. For a while thereafter he clerked in
the mercantile trade in that city, and in 1891 he and his brother, George
A., engaged in the general store business for themselves. In 1900 he left
the store business and has since been engaged in his present line of work.
He is well liked socially and is a popular member of the Modern Woodmen and
of the Maccabees. Mr. Strong was married in Chetek, Sept. 23, 1891, to Ella
M. Robbins, who was born in Elgin, Ill., Aug. 17, 1871, daughter of Dr. W.
H. and Lydia Robbins, who came to Chetek in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have
had five children: William R. was born June 20, 1892, and is cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Chetek. Harry D. was born Oct. 18, 1893, and
is assistant superintendent of the Chetek plant of the Barron County
Canning Co. He married Stella Thingbold of Chetek, and they have four
children, Jessie, Clifford, Raymond and Harry. Neal was born Dec. 7, 1902,
and Charles was born Aug. 21, 1904. Ellen was born Feb. 12, 1909 and died
in infancy.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 953.

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