Lacrosse-Walworth County WI Archives Biographies.....Brice, George W. February 9, 1836 - 
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GEORGE W. BRICE, dealer in farm machinery, wind-mills, pumps, threshers, 
reapers, mowers, seeders, drills, plows, cultivators, Onalaska; was born at 
Berkshire, Franklin Co., Vt., Feb. 9, 1836; came to Wisconsin with his 
parents, in 1843; they settled on Sugar Creek, Walworth Co., Wis.; from there 
to La Crosse Co., in 1855, and entered the land that is now known as Brice 
Prairie; they had 240 acres of land; his father died Nov. 11, 1874, and his 
mother July 26, 1865. They had a family of ten children - two deceased, four 
daughters, remaining in Vermont, and four sons, who came West. G. W. is the 
youngest of the sons; he enlisted in Co. I, 36th W. V. I., in 1863, and was 
mustered out 1865; was at the engagements of Petersburg and Richmond. After 
the war, he returned to La Crosse, and engaged in business in 1874. His wife 
was Anna E. Courtright, a native of Rockford, Ill., born Aug. 25, 1836, and 
married in 1861; children are Harry C., born Oct. 16, 1862; Robert E., born 
Feb. 28, 1869; and Florence, born Nov. 10, 1874, and died Aug. 12, 1876. He is 
a member of A., F. & A. M. Lodge, of the I. O. O. F., I. O. G. T., T. of H and 
S. of T. He is now District Clerk, and Treasurer of District No. 5, now Clerk 
of District No. 1, and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors; he has been 
Assessor seven years; was Constable the first year he was a voter, and also 
Justice of the Peace.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 810.

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