E. W. Thomas 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 Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 923

E. W. THOMAS, retired, was born in Salem, Mass., in 1802; removed to Ohio in 
1844; lived in Ashland Co., till 1851, and came from there to Grant Co., Wis., 
where he has since resided; he followed farming two miles north of’ the village 
till 1865, and since then has lived in the city; he in company with his son, 
Hudson, built what is known as Thomas’ Block, in which Thomas Hall is located, 
completing it in 1871; he was married in Madison Co., N. Y., in 1825 to Polly 
Bacon, daughter of James Bacon, and has six children - Mary, Hudson, Huron, 
Homer, Martha and Hadley; Hudson enlisted in 1863, in the 33d W. V. I., and 
served as Second Lieutenant of Co. A till the close of the war; is now living in 
Lyon Co., Minn.  Huron was in the 25th W. V. I., Co. E, enlisted in 1862, and 
was Sergeant of his company; went with Sherman to the sea, and was discharged on 
account of sickness at Savannah, Ga.