BIOGRAPHIES: Edwin C. WOOLLEY, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Victor Gulickson 14 March 2000 ==================================================================== Edwin C. Woolley, an experienced farmer of section 18, Sumner Township, was born in Pleasant Ridge Township, Livingston County, Illinois, Nov. 6, 1864, the son of Cyrus and Julia (Keene) Woolley, the pioneers. He came to this county with his parents in 1870 and was reared in Sumner Township. He learned farm work and worked in the woods and on lumber drives. As a young man he worked in Superior, Wis., Duluth, Minn., and in various places in North Dakota and in Canada. In 1902 he homesteaded a farm in Kootenai County, in the Panhandle district in Idaho, and remained there until 1913. In 1914 he moved onto his present 80 acres in section 18, Sumner Township. At that time this was practically all wild. He has erected good buildings and has developed an excellent farm. He carries on general agricultural operations and makes a specialty of Guernsey cattle. Mr. Woolley married in June, 1914, Effie White, who was born Oct. 10, 1870, the daughter of H. J. White. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 717.