Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Pitkin, James 1815 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Roxanne Munns rmunns@uwalumni.com April 17, 2007, 4:17 pm Author: Unknown JAMES PITKIN, farmer, Section 34; P. O. Salem; born in Connecticut in 1815. He removed to the town of Hudson, Summit Co., Ohio, when 23 years of age. He afterward removed to Southern Iowa; returned to Ohio; thence to Illinois, in 1846; came to La Crosse in June, 1854; settled in the town of Hamilton and engaged in farming. Has resided in this town since that time. His first wife was Lucy A. Gillett, born in Fredonia, N. Y.; she died at Fort Madison, Iowa. His present wife was Jane E. Coe, born in Portage Co., Ohio, in 1827. He has one child by his first marriage - Milo J. Pitkin, now of La Crosse. Has four children by present marriage - Lucy A., now Mrs. John Veits; Francis N., resides in Hancock Co., Iowa; Ellen J., now Mrs. John Leet, and Eva M. Additional Comments: From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 826 - 827. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/lacrosse/bios/pitkin534gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb