Charles Warren Loney 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 Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 985-9

CHARLES WARREN LONEY, Fennimore. (Autobiography.)  I was born Aug. 21 1808, in 
the town of Franklin, Ross Co., Ohio was brought up in a Methodist family, and 
taught to believe that it is wrong to break the Sabbath, or to attend church 
festivals; I embraced religion in Indiana in 1834, and joined the Methodist 
Church.  Was married, June 3, 1832 to Mary Switzer; removed with my family to 
the Territory of Wisconsin in October, 1846, and bought land and settled in the 
town of Fennimore, Grant Co.; for personal abuse by those who should have been 
my friends, and for corruptions in the church.  I called for and obtained a 
letter of recommendation from said church in 1871 in 1875, myself and wife 
presented our letters to the United Brethren in Christ, which church holds the 
same doctrines as regards the conditions of salvation, arid have some church 
rules that I esteem more highly and vital importance in a religious view of the 
matter.  This church is also more strict in the observance of their church 
discipline.  These are some of the causes which led me to leave the M. E. Church 
and join the United Brethren.  The love for and the tenacity with which the 
former church clings to Freemasonry and other minor secret organizations, its 
organs, its church festivals and its church music all tend to deprive it of the 
power for usefulness which it formerly possessed.  There is no man or woman that 
can be a true follower of the Savior, and at the same time deny Him.  With 
regard to politics, I always voted with the old Whig party while that party 
existed, and since its disorganization have voted with the Republican party.  I 
was elected a Justice of the Peace in the town of Fennimore in 1847, and re-
elected each succeeding two years for sixteen years. I taught the second term of 
school taught in the town its the winter of 1847-48. Mr. R. Dixon taught the 
first term the previous winter.  I was elected Town Superintendent of Schools in 
1849, and again in 1852 and 1853; was elected Town Clerk in 1865, and re-elected 
annually for sixteen years in succession.  I have tried different occupations 
for a livelihood, but have never made much money at anything, but have always 
endeavored to deal honestly with all with whom I have done business. We have had 
four children, all born in Indiana, three of whom are living - Mary Ann (now 
Mrs. Mumms), Charles W. and Wm. H.