H. J. Traber 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 923-4

H. J. TRABER, Mayor of Platteville, was born in Albany Co., N Y., Nov. 9, 1833; 
when 7 years of age he left home and went on a whaling voyage in the ship 
Montezuma, Capt. Williams, of New London, Conn.; they sailed on the 15th of 
July, 1850, and returned on the 15th of May, 1853, crossed the equator seven 
times on the voyage, and visited during the time, the Azore Islands, St. Paul’s 
Island, New Zealand, East Cape, in Russian America, Sandwich Islands, King Mills 
Group, La Drone Islands, Tihita, and thence around Cape Horn, home; he soon 
after made a voyage to Liverpool, Eng., then returned to America, and visited 
Bath, Me., Boston, Mass., and then went to Chesapeake Bay, Portsmouth, N. H., 
and back to Albany; in the spring of 1855 he sailed to Buffalo, N. Y., and 
followed the lakes till July of that year, when he landed at Chicago on the 9th 
and came to Platteville July 16, and has been a resident of the city since that 
time; Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A, 33d W. V. I. as a private and was in 
the service three years; in September, 1864, he was transferred to Co. H of the 
same regiment as Second Lieutenant, and had command of his company from that 
time till the close of the war; he was in twenty-one engagements during his term 
of service and was never wounded and was never a day off duty; he is the present 
Mayor of Platteville, elected in April, 1880 ; he was married in 1859, in 
Lancaster, Wis., to Miss Sarah Kines, and has had four children, three of whom 
are living.