Alonzo B. Teasdale Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and
Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901
Pages 524-5

ALONZO B. TEASDALE, a prominent citizen of Cassville, now retired from active 
business cares, is a native of Grant county, born in Beetown Jan. 21, 1849, a 
son of Wilson and Maria S. (Smith) Teasdale, the former a native of New York, 
the latter of Indiana, where their marriage was celebrated. The father was born 
in 1810, and in early life came West.  In 1844 he moved to Muscatine, Iowa, and 
a year later came to Cassville, Wis.  In 1847 he located in Beetown, where he 
worked at his trade, that of a blacksmith, for two years.  Going overland to 
California in 1849, he was engaged in blacksmithing in Sacramento for a time, 
and in 1850 returned to Beetown, Wis., by way of the Isthmus and New York City.  
In 1853 he moved to Cassville, where he continued to follow his chosen 
occupation throughout the remainder of his life, dying there in 1879.  He was a 
Democrat in politics, and was widely and favorably known throughout Grant 
county.  His wife also died in Cassville, Jan. 2, 1895.  To this worthy couple 
were born five sons, namely: James L., a resident of Cassville; Theodore, who 
was killed on the railroad at Cassville, in 1898; Alonzo B.; Frank W., who died 
in 1898 in Cassville; and Clark, a resident of that place.

The boyhood and youth of Alonzo B. Teasdale were spent in Beetown and Cassville, 
and in the schools of the latter place he acquired his literary education.  On 
starting out in life for himself he entered the government employ, being 
connected with surveys and harbor work, and for twenty-three years he was 
engaged in similar operations on both the upper and lower Mississippi.  A man of 
good business and executive ability, industrious, energetic and persevering, he 
accumulated a handsome competence, and in 1895 was able to lay aside all 
business cares.  He is now living a retired life, enjoying the fruits of his 
former toil.  He is, however, interested in mining.  He owns a fine brick 
residence in Cassville, where he makes his home, and also has a good brick 
business block at that place.

Mr. Teasdale was married at Cassville, in 1895, to Miss Clara Voigt, a native of 
that place, and a daughter of Peter Voigt, whose sketch appears on another page 
of this volume.  To this union have been born two children, Charles William and 
Harold T.  In his political views Mr. Teasdale is a Democrat, but has never 
cared for the honors or emoluments of public office, preferring to devote his 
entire time and attention to his business interests, and he is one of the 
prominent and influential citizens of his town.  His has been an active and 
useful life, and he well deserves the prosperity that has come to him.  Socially 
he is a member of Cassville Lodge, No. 235, F. & A. M.