John Trenary Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Source:

1881 History of Grant Co., Wisconsin
Western Historical Company, Chicago, IL
Biographical Sketches, Platteville, Pg. 924

JOHN TRENARY, farmer, Secs. 12 and 13; P. O. Platteville; born July 10, 1809, in 
Redruth, Cornwall, England. His early life was spent in the interests of his 
father's large mercantile and other business. He came to America in 1840, kept the 
old Blue Run tavern for a time, and, in 1843, came to Platteville, where he 
engaged in mining and auctioneering. His first wife, formerly Eliza Pollard, of 
Redruth, died in 1847, leaving four children - Eliza, now in Kewaunee, Ill.; John; 
a Methodist Episcopal preacher; Ellen, now residing at Big Patch, and an infant 
that died three months after the mother. In 1848, taking his three surviving 
children, he returned to England, where he remained eighteen months. Marrying 
Clarissa Lory, of Elstone, Cornwall, he brought her and the children to 
Platteville, and settled on a farm adjoining the one he now owns. Mr. Trenary now 
has 175 acres in the home farm, and 40 of timber in Lima. He was one of the 
founders of the Primitive Methodist Church of Platteville. For more than twenty 
years, be has been Class-Leader and Sabbath School Superintendent. Mrs. Trenary 
has been a member for twenty-five years. They have ten children - Charles, Edwin, 
Carlin, Nelson, Eldred, Sarah, Lucy, Rosina, Albert and Eli.