Biographies:  Robert D. WHITFORD, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Robert D. Whitford, attorney-at-law, was born in Jefferson county, New York, 
July 2, 1851, son of Edward W. and Clarinda (Odell) Whitford.  Edward 
Whitford, paternal grandfather of Robert D., was for many years a resident 
of Rensselaer county, New York, and one of the pioneer farmers of Jefferson 
county, this state, where he settled in 1833 and died in 1862, aged 84 years.
Robert S. Odell, the maternal grandfather, was a farmer of Rensselaer 
county, New York, where he died.  The father of Mr. Whitford farmed for 
several years in Jefferson county, and later in Fayette county, Illinois, 
where he died in 1892.

Mr. Whitford was reared in his native county, coming to Wisconsin in 1869.  
He located at Milton.  He took a classical course in Milton college, read 
law in the office of Bennett & Sale, at Janesville, and was admitted to the 
bar in November 1878, after which he located at Menomonie January 1, 1880.  
He practiced there until 1893, when he went to Superior, and on September 1, 
1899, located at Eau Claire.  He married September 4, 1882, Miss Anna Shaw 
West, a niece of the late Daniel Shaw, and they have two children.        

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 298.