Biographies:   Amos WARD, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Amos Ward, for forty-eight years a resident and highly respected citizen of
Eau Claire, is a native of Canada and was born September 20, 1830.  When a
young boy he left Canada and from that time until 1866 lived in the states
of Maine and Pennsylvania.  For several years during his residence in Maine
he was engaged in farming and shipbuilding.  He lived nine years in Potter
County, Pennsylvania, and from there he came to Wisconsin, arriving in 
Eau Claire August 15, 1866.  Soon after his arrival here he entered the 
employ of Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, with whom he remained until 1905, at
which time the interest of this company were sold.  During the civil war
Mr. Ward enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served two years.  He was mustered out
and honorably dicharged at the close of the war in 1865.  He is a member of
Eagle Post, No. 52, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eau Claire, and for a 
number of years has lived in retirement.

Mr. Ward was married in the state of Maine to Miss Lydia M. Trott, by whom
he has six children:  Charles R., who is a practicing physician in the city
of Eau Claire and resides at home; Syntha,; Eva J.; Louis, who is also a 
physician and resides at Bemidji, Minn.; Allen and Kate.  His daughter Syntha
married A. E. Henderson, a physician, and also resides at Bemidji, Minn.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 893