Lacrosse-Milwaukee-Dodge County WI Archives Biographies.....Mellon, Barnard 1824 - 
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BARNARD MELLON, dealer in groceries, crockery, glassware, etc.; is a native of 
New Jersey; born in 1824; son of Michael Mellon; came to Wisconsin in 1851, 
and located in Milwaukee, where he worked at blacksmithing in the shop of the 
old Prairie du Chien Railroad Company till 1861. He then spent one winter in 
New York, returning to Milwaukee in the spring of 1862. In August, 1864, he 
went south in government employ, and worked till June 7, 1865, in the Memphis 
& Charleston Railroad shops in Memphis. While there, he belonged to a 
battalion composed of railroad employes who were sworn into the military 
service as a part of the army of West Tennessee, but never called into active 
service. He returned to Wisconsin and remained in Milwaukee till 1867, then 
lived one year in Watertown, Wis., and, in 1868, came to La Crosse Co. and 
purchased a farm on French Island, where he still owns 120 acres. He was on 
the farm three years, then went to Hokah, Minn., and came from there to La 
Crosse in November, 1880. Has eight children - James, Frank, Oscar, Harry, 
George, Charlotte, Lizzie and Ida. Mrs. Mellon, whose maiden name was Phoebe 
Brower, was born on Ct. Farms, N. J., daughter of Abram Brower.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 777.

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