Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Hugunin, Edgar R. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    EDGAR R. HUGUNIN, retired; was born in Oswego, N. Y., and was a son of Peter
D. Hugunin, a native of Mapletown, on the Mohawk River, N. Y., who died April
25, 1865; Mr. Hugunin has been engaged in the shipping business the most of his
life, and, in 1833, stopped at Kenosha with his father from the cutter Westward
Ho, upon which vessel they left Chicago to visit Green Bay and intermediate
ports; on the 1st of May, 1836, he came to Southport and engaged in agricultural
pursuits, his farm being located in the town of Somers, Section 30. In 1837, he
was commissioned Sheriff by Gov. Dodge, and served until the fall of 1841. In
1839, at the land sale, he entered what is known as the Hawley and Evans places,
one and a half miles of the lake shore ridge. In 1844, he was elected Sheriff
and served two terms; he was four years Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislature, and
a member of the Second Constitutional Convention. In 1850, he went to
California, where he engaged in dealing in supplies and mining until July, 1853,
when he returned home; he went into the stone brick and lime business in
Chicago, until 1871, and in 1872 moved his family from that city to Kenosha; he
then engaged in the lime trade, at Green Bay, until 1874, when he retired. Among
other public offices he has held was that of Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors of the town of Somers four years and County Commissioner for six
years, his service expiring in 1864. He was married on the 4th of March, 1847,
to Martha W. Hatch, a native of Coldbrook, N. H., though reared in Vermont; they
have had five children-Anna, died in infancy; Leonard, first child, probably
killed in the army; Anna M. (Mrs. Geo. S. Weeks), deceased; Edgar C., in the
regular army located at Ft. Brown, and Lillie M.

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Extracted from:

THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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