John D. Cenfield 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 D. CENFIELD, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Potosi.  Born May 6, 1838, in 
Switzerland, son of John Louis and Frances (Bulomy) Cenfield; came to Buffalo, 
N. Y., in 1856, and, after one year went to Watertown, Wis.; then to this place.  
Owns 100 acres of land.  Married, May 16, 1871, by Rev. Nicholas Mayne, to Mary 
Isabel Williams.  (See B. F. Williams.)  Has five children - Anna Janette, born 
March 14, 1872; John David, Nov. 7, 1873; Eugene Nathan, Jan. 17, 1876; Rhoda 
Grigsby, July* Frank Henry, Dec. 12, 1880.  Mr. Cenfield was three years in Co. 
H, 25th W. V. I.  He started for Pike's Peak April 10, 1860, prospecting one 
year, and came home in December of the same year.  In 1866, started on another 
mining tour, and arrived in Colorado in May, and returned to Potosi in November, 
1870, having crossed the plains about fourteen times in his travels.

*Note: Odd break in the biography.  Likely was Rhoda's birthdate.