Lacrosse-Walworth-Rock County WI Archives Biographies.....Buttles, Mark M. April 30, 1844 - 
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MARK M. BUTTLES, Sheriff of La Crosse County, is a native of Chautauqua Co., 
N. Y., where he was born on the last day of April, 1844. The following year, 
his parents, flowing with the tide of emigration to the West, came to 
Wisconsin and settled in Walworth County, the present Sheriff being included 
in their list of household valuables. After a temporary sojourn at this point, 
they continued their pilgrimage to Rock County, and halting at Janesville, 
remained in that present flourishing city until 1854, when they come to La 
Crosse County and became permanent settlers of Burnham Valley, in the present 
Township of Burns. Here Mr. Buttles passed the earlier years of his life, 
attending school and availing himself of such advantages as the limited 
educational resources of the place afforded, until the breaking-out of the 
war. In 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Wisconsin Cavalry, in which he 
served two years, when he was disabled and discharged, and returned home. In 
1864, he concluded to try his fortunes further west, and crossing the plains, 
became a miner in Montana. A year's experience persuaded Mr. Buttles to return 
to the homes of civilization, and he descended the Missouri River to Omaha in 
a Mackinac boat, and entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad 
Company. In 1867, he visited Fort Sully, thence to La Crosse on a visit. 
During the spring of 1868, he re-visited Omaha, and proceeded to California, 
where he became a ranchero, and followed that exciting and varied pursuit 
until 1873, with no inconsiderable success, when he disposed of his interests 
and once more journeyed to La Crosse County. He settled in West Salem, where 
he engaged in trading and speculating, and where he was married to Miss Anna 
Pierce. In 1879, he was elected to his present position and remove to the city 
of La Crosse. As a public officer he has given the fullest satisfaction to an 
admiring constituency. Socially, he is a courteous gentleman, and is a man, 
one whom misfortune can never dishearten or disaster appall.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 743.

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