John Carthew 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 Potosi, Biographical Sketches, Page 939

JOHN CARTHEW, Postmaster at Rockville, and member of the firm of John Carthew & 
Bro. (Thomas H. Carthew).  The parents of Mr. Carthew - John and Eliza (Nanc) 
Carthew - were natives of Cornwall, England, and emigrated to America in 1833.  
Mr. John Carthew was married in 1875, to Frances Tones, of Potosi, and has two 
children - Raymond J. and Harry.  He assumed the position he now fills, and 
started a general grocery store, in 1856.  In 1867 to 1870, he served with 
distinction in the Legislature - he being a stanch Republican, and the district 
largely Democratic.