Biographies:  Martin Harrison Vangelder, Cooks Valley, Chippewa County, WI

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Martin Harrison Vangelder, farmer, P. O. Cook's Valley, was born in
Luzerne county, Pa., September 15, 1850.  His father, Ammi Vangelder,
was born in New York state April 20, 1820, and his grandfather,
William Vangelder, died February 10, 1865, in Dunn county, Wis.  His
mother, Eliza, was a daughter of John Meade, and died in 1884.
Martin H. left Pennsylvania with his parents at the age of fifteen
years for Maxwell, Buffalo county, Wis., and remained there a year,
thence went to Pepin county, and from there to Auburn township,
Chippewa county, where he bought forty acres of land.  He
subsequently sold that tract for the eighty acres upon which he now
resides. Mr. Vangelder married, November 1, 1875, Miss Isabel Knight,
who was born in Dane county, Wis., June 13, 1858, a daughter of John
Knight, a native of England, and who died at Bloomer, Wis.  Her
grandfather, Thomas Knight, was also born in England, and died there.
Her mother, Sarah Knight, was a daughter of John Germany; she was
born in England and died in Dunn county, Wis., in 1874.  The
following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Vangelder:
Chauncey Howard, born July 9, 1879; Grace Maud, born February 3,
1882, died March 13, 1889; Myrtle, born April 19, 1884, and Lizzie,
born February 12, 1889.  Mr. Vangelder was at one time a member of
the Temple of Honor.  In politics he is a democrat.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2" page 651.