Thomas Orton 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 Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 895

THOMAS ORTON, Lancaster, grain buyer, in the employ of F. W. Strong, has been 
with this firm since March, 1879.  He is a native of London, England, born July 
20, 1854; came to America with his parents in February, 1863, and settled in 
Lancaster; his father was a publisher and bookbinder, and died two weeks after 
his arrival; his mother died April 17, 1880.  Dec. 9, 1878, he was married to 
Miss Lizzie Adams, of British Hollow.