HIRAM A. SHELDON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 651 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HIRAM A. SHELDON, hardware merchant; P. O. Burlington; born in Utica,
Mich., May 13, 1835; he came to Burlington with his father, Orson
Sheldon, and was employed in his store until 1857; April 21, 1859, he
opened a hardware store in the frame building now occupied by Theodore
Reil, a dry goods merchant; in 1861 he moved into a store formerly
occupied by his father, where he still remains; he is one of the oldest
established hardware merchants in Racine County, and carries a general
stock of hardware, tinware, stoves, paints, oils, etc; he married in
Burlington, Feb. 28, 1865, Paulina A. Bristol; they had two children-
Robert H. and Mabel L., Robert died in Burlington, Jan. 2, 1877; they
attend the Congregational Church. He enlisted in a company raised in
Burlington, who elected their own officers; Mr. Sheldon was elected to
the position of First Lieutenant, and held that position when the
company was assigned to the 1st Wis. Infantry as Co. C, and was attached
to the Army of the Cumberland.