BIOGRAPHIES:  I. C. DAMMON, Tonnar, Dunn County, WI

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subject of this biography and has no further information.

I. C. Dammon, farmer, P. O. Tonnar, Dunn county, was born in the little 
village of Rutland, Dane county, Wis., December 4, 1847, and is a son of 
Cornelius P. and Abigail (Cushing) Dammon, both New England people, who 
lived in Maine until they came to Wisconsin while it was yet a territory.  
They first settled in Dane county and lived there until 1853, following 
farming.  They then removed to Monroe county and lived at Sparta until 
their removal to Dunn county in 1896, where Mr. Dammon bought a farm, 
which he still owns, and which joins that of his son, I. C.  Our subject 
remained at home on the farm until he was twenty-one years old, then went 
to work by the month on a farm and also worked int he woods.  He came to 
Dunn county at the time his father did, and bought 160 acres of land on 
section seventeen, of which he has sixty acres improved and well stocked.  
In Vanceburg, December 24, 1871, he married Mrs. Maria (Hitchcock) Hall, 
formerly of Ellington, N. Y.  She has two children by her first husband, 
namely: D. O. Hall, who married Kate Webster, and C. Alta, who married M. 
Holiday.  Mr. Dammon is a stanch democrat and has taken quite an active 
part in politics in the town of Wilson.  He has been ont he town board, and 
was treasurer two years, as long as he would hold the position.  At present 
he is chairman of the board.  In religious matter he entertains liberal views.

--Taken from "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin" Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records of Leading Families; Biographies of Representative 
Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by
George Forrester.  Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner, Publisher.  1891-92
Page 941