Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Colver, Franklin D. 1830 - 
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FRANKLIN D. COLVER, millwright and sawyer; born in Vermont in 1830; removed 
with his parents to Pennsylvania when about 1 year old; thence to Indiana when 
3 years old, his parents being among the early settlers of that State. They 
afterward removed to Illinois, thence to the city of Oswego, N. Y. Mr. Colver 
went to Chicago in 1851, where he ran a planing-mill; also followed the lakes 
more or less for five years. He went to Iowa in 1856, where he was married to 
Matilda Collins. They came to La Crosse Co. in 1857. Mr. Colver enlisted in 
1861, in the 8th W. V. I.; served about thirteen months, and was discharged 
for disability. He has seven children - Arletta, Alfred, Alma, Alvin, Abbie, 
Austin and Arthur.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 747.

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