Biographies from The History of Columbia County,
Wisconsin, 1880 


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From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880,
publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page 993

ERIK KNUTSEN, merchant, Lodi; born in Norway in 1834;
he came to the United States with his parents in 1851;
the family settled in Dane Co., Wis., where his father
died; his mother now lives in Minnesota; he resided in
Madison for four years, where he was engaged as a
clerk; he came to Lodi and engaged in business in
1857.  His wife was Miss Annie P. BRUNSERG; they have
nine children, one son and eight daughters; Mr.
KNUTSEN is engaged in general merchandising.

JAMES McCLOUD, merchant, Lodi; born in Gallipolis,
Gallia Co., Ohio, Nov. 27, 1822; his father died when
he was about 3 years of age; after the death of his
father, his mother removed to Vermillion Co., Ind.,
where she was married, and removed to Joliet, Ill., in
1830, and to Van Buren Co., Iowa, in 1837; in the fall
of 1839, he entered into the employment of the
American Fur Co., and was engaged in trading on the
frontier till 1844; he came to Mineral Point, Wis., in
August 1844; he came to the town of Lodi in the fall
of 1845.  He was married to Catherine E. BARTHOLOMEW,
daughter of G. M. BARTHOLOMEW, they have had five
children, four of whom are living - James W.,
Elizabeth, now Mrs. R. W. JONES, of Iowa Co., Wis.;
Joseph B. and George; their daughter, Clara J., aged
19 years, a student of Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wis., and just ready to graduate, was drowned in Lake
Buttes des Mortes, on June 10, 1871.  Mr. McCLOUD has
been engaged in the mercantile business since 1851; he
has been very successful in business; has been in the
lumber trade; is also a large land owner, and has been
extensively engaged in farming for many years; is now
engaged quite extensively in stock-raising and fish
culture.

GILBERT E. McKEEBY, M.D., Lodi; born in 1844; his
parents removed to Oregon, Dane Co., Wis., when he was
2 years of age, where his father died, and where his
mother still resides.  The Doctor enlisted in August
1864, in the 1st W. Heavy Artillery; served one year;
discharged July 1865.  He began the study of medicine
at Evansville, Wis., with Dr. SMITH; he was a student
of the University at Madison for about three years; in
the fall of 1865, he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and
attended a course of lectures at the medical
department of the University of Michigan; in the
spring of 1866 he resumed his studies with Dr. SMITH;
in 1867, he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College at New York City, where he graduated in March
1868; he began the practice of medicine in Iowa Co.,
Wis.; came to Lodi in the fall of 1868.  His wife was
Carrie M. ANSDELL, daughter of F.T.S. ANSDELL, an
early settler of Sauk Co.; they have two children -
Fred E. and Carrie L.

JOB MILLS, farmer and one of the proprietors of the
Lodi Valley Cheese Factory, Lodi; was born in
Lancashire, England, in 1840; he came to the United
States with his father, William MILLS, in 1842; they
came to New York City, thence to Paterson, N.J.,
thence to Oswego , and to Walworth Co., Wis., in 1844,
where the family lived about ten years, engaged in
farming; thence to Dodge Co. for about two years;
thence to the town of Scott, Columbia Co.  Mr. MILLS
was married in 1863, to Mary A. DYE.  Mr. MILLS has a
farm of 300 acres; residence in Sec. 26.

R. W. MILLS, Lodi, grain-buyer, firm of MILLS &
ALBISTON; was born in the State of New York in 1843;
he is the son of William MILLS, and brother of Mr. Job
MILLS, of Lodi; he engaged in the business of grain-
buying with his brother Job in 1871; Mr. ALBISTON
became a member of the firm in May 1872; the firm was
then known as MILLS Bros. & ALBISTON; the firm became
MILLS & ALBISTON in 1876.  Was married to Margaret A.
WELLS, daughter of Mr. T. S. WELLS; they have two
children - Nettie and Thomas A.

ROBERT MOSS, miller, Lodi; born in Sutton, Isle of
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, Feb. 22, 1822.  Was
married to Sarah REED, native of the same town; she
died in England.  Mr. MOSS came to the United States
in May 1854; lived in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., a few
months; thence to Fox Lake, Wis., in the fall of 1854;
thence to Fairwater, Fond du Lac Co.; lived for a
short time at several other points in Wisconsin; came
to Lodi in 1864; since that time has been engaged as
miller for Mr. ANDREWS.  His present wife was Mrs.
Charlotte HALEY, whose maiden name was CASE; she was
born in Herkimer Co., N.Y., in 1825.  Mr. MOSS had
five children by his first marriage, two of whom are
living - Alfred E. and Charles W.

EDWARD NICHOLS, of the firm of WAIT & NICHOLS,
hardware dealers, Lodi; was born in Jefferson Co.,
N.Y., Jan. 7, 1820, where he resided till July 1853,
when he came to Wisconsin; lived in Janesville till
the fall of 1854, when he came to Lodi.  He was Town
Superintendent of Schools for the years 1856-57; has
been Town Clerk for several years.  He was married to
Miss Mary A. DUNNING, daughter of Samuel S. DUNNING,
from near Ithaca, N.Y.; they have one son - Charles E.
- born March, 1866.

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