Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Putnam, W. R. 1846 - 
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W. R. PUTNAM, dealer in hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishing goods, No. 47 
Main street, was born in Clark Co., Ohio, in 1846. His father, Rufus Putnam, 
born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1805, was a son of Judge Edwin Putnam and a 
grandson of Gen. Rufus Putnam, the first white man in Ohio. He was a brother 
of Gen. Israel Putnam, and, in company with Gen. Tupper, purchased 1,500,000 
acres of land in what is now the State of Ohio, at 62-1/2 cents per acre, and 
in April, 1788, laid out the city of Marietta, this being the first settlement 
made in the Northwest. W. R. Putnam enlisted in the early part of 1863 in the 
31st Ohio V. I., Company H, and was in the service about five months when he 
was accidentally shot and discharged for disability. He was afterward in the 
service about four months, under the hundred-day call, in 1864. He resided in 
different parts of Ohio till 1867, the last four years in Cincinnati; came 
from there to Chicago, and from Chicago to La Crosse, in 1873, to accept a 
position in the dry goods house of Mons Anderson, where he remained four 
years, since which time he has been in his present business.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 785.

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