Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Brockliss, W. H. 1814 - 
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W. H. BROCKLISS, saloon-keeper, No. 10 Pearl street, came to La Crosse in the 
summer of 1855, started a saloon and restaurant the same year, and has been in 
the saloon business ever since. He first bought a frame building on his 
present location, which burned in 1861. He rebuilt the same year a two-story 
brick, 20x52, which he still occupies. He was born in London, Eng., in 1814, 
son of William H. Brockliss, who came to America in 1845, and settled in Lee 
Co., Iowa. He died in Burlington, Iowa, in 1850. W. H. Brockliss came to the 
United States in 1848, landing in New Orleans on the 2d day of July; went 
direct to Iowa and resided there till the summer of 1852, then went to 
California across the plains and remained till the spring of 1855, when he 
returned to the States, arriving in La Crosse in May, his family having 
removed here from Iowa in the summer of 1854. He has two children - Sarah 
Jane, now Mrs. Oscar Wissinger, of Urbana, Ohio, and Letitia, now Mrs. V. A. 
Bigelow, of La Crosse. Mr. Brockliss was married in St. George's Church, 
Hanover square, London, Aug. 22, 1835, to Maria Windwood, a native of Stowe 
Market, Suffolk, Eng.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 742.

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