Isaac Lord 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

ISAAC LORD (deceased); was born in Parsonsfield, Me., in 1803.  He was engaged 
in the boot and shoe business in Maine, and came from there to Platteville in 
1839.  He was married, in 1843, in Elizabeth, Ill., to Miss Emaline Morton, 
daughter of Chester Morton, a native of Massachusetts.  Soon after his marriage, 
Mr. Lord purchased land in Platteville and vicinity, and also in La Fayette Co., 
and in the spring of 1854, he went on a farm at what is called the West Plat 
Mound, and was engaged in farming there till the fall of 1870; then removed to 
the village of Platteville, where he resided till his death, Aug. 16. 1877.  He 
left two children-Isabel, now Mrs. Minard Mills, of Plymouth Co., Iowa, and 
Purl, who is reading law with S. W. Bell.