CHARLES N. SOULE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 663 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

CHARLES N. SOULE, farmer, P. O. Rochester; born in New York, April 27,
1827; son of George and Harriet Soule; came to Wisconsin, and located on
Sec. 8, Rochester Township, with his father, in 1846; went to California
in 1849, landing in Sacramento; from there went to the mines; was
trading and mining at one trading-post ten years; owned a water ditch,
which supplied the miners with water; went to Downersville, on the Yuba
River, in the fall of 1850, and purchased a claim in company with four
others; remained in California eighteen years, and returned to Rochester
in the fall of 1866. Married Miss Mary Cooms, daughter of Elder Cooms,
of Rochester, in 1867; they have had four children-- Elmer L., born Jan.
12, 1868; Eugene F., Dec. 15, 1869; Rosa, Dec. 10, 1872; Alden, Oct. 20,
1876.