George R. Laughton 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 950

GEORGE R. LAUGHTON, retired, Platteville; has been a citizen of Platteville 
since Dec. 25, 1842.  He was born in London, England, in 1820; came to America 
with his parents in 1835; lived in New York City and Monroe Co., N. Y., till 
1842, when he came to Wisconsin, and located in Platteville.  He was engaged in 
merchandising in Brockport, N. Y., three years, and two years in Clarkson, same 
county, previous to his coming to Wisconsin.  He followed the same business in 
Platteville till 1846, then engaged in farming two miles out of the village till 
1873, when he retired from active business, and came to Platteville to reside.  
He is at present a member of the City Council, and was one year Supervisor while 
living in the town.  He was married in Platteville in 1844, to Miss Mildred M. 
Durley of that place, and has had seven children, five of whom are still living, 
four of them sons, whose average weight is 250 pounds, none of them weighing 
less than 200, and all in good health.  Mr. Laughton was the originator and 
promoter of the erection of the Grant County Soldiers' Monument at Lancaster, 
which was the first of the kind erected in the United States.