C. A. Blanchard Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Marion, Biographical Sketches, Page 936

C. A. BLANCHARD, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Boscobel.  Is a native of Morris Co., N. 
J., but was raised principally in Essex Co., N. Y.  After the death of his 
parents, he went to Connecticut and finished his education.  Came to Vinegar 
Hill, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., in 1846, and remained two years.  In 1848, he came 
to the place where he is now located.  During 1844 and 1845, he clerked in a 
feed and grocery store in New York.  In 1846, he went to New Orleans and engaged 
in getting out ship-timber.  In May of the same year, he came to Galena and went 
to mining.  He owns about 250 acres of land, and has cleared it up himself.  Has 
held nearly every town office.  Married in 1854, to Miss Martha E. Fitch, who 
was born in Michigan.  They have three children, two sons and one daughter.