Lacrosse-Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....Darling, Chester January 29, 1821 - 
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CHESTER DARLING, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Bangor; is one of the early and 
prominent settlers of La Crosse County. He was born in Groten, Caledonia Co., 
Vt., Jan. 29, 1821. He was married when 18 years of age, to Miss Sallie Emery. 
He removed to Licking Co., Ohio, in 1840, where his wife died; was there 
engaged in work at his trade, that of a carpenter, and he there married his 
second wife; came to Dane Co., Wis., in the summer of 1846, and settled in the 
town of Dunkirk, near Stoughton. In the fall of 1853, he settled in what is 
now the town of Hamilton, near Salem, though he was temporarily in La Crosse 
County several years previous to that time. He purchased his present farm, 
July, 1855, of Charles C. Chase. This farm is one of the first, perhaps the 
first, entered in La Crosse County. It was entered by Abial Morrison. Mr. 
Darling lost his second wife on Christmas, 1873. His present wife was Miss 
Hester Cooley. He has six children by his second wife. His father came to La 
Crosse County in 1852, and settled in Bangor, where he died about 1860. Like 
many of the other pioneers of Wisconsin, who, by industry and economy, have 
secured a competency, he began life poor, and endured all the hardships and 
privations, incident to the life of a pioneer.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 833.

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