Lacrosse-Milwaukee-Jefferson County WI Archives Biographies.....Sasil, Harmon V. September 10, 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 May 16, 2007, 6:34 pm Author: Unknown HARMON V. SASIL, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Stevenstown; was born in Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1815. When he was 10 years old, his father died, and he went to live with his uncle; in 1838, he came to Milwaukee, and chopped wood at $1.25 per cord; he then went to Watertown, and built a shanty fifty miles from any white men but his two brothers, who then came to the State; then he built a hotel at the junction of the Madison and Watertown wagon roads; this was in 1848, which he kept four years, then sold out for $1,000, and bought a farm at the harbor at Milwaukee, of 70 acres, which he improved, and remained three years; then, in 1850, went to California, and worked in the mines; then on the sea as Second Steward on a bark plying between San Francisco and Realejo, Central America, and then to the Panama Line; then to Sharuse, on the Isthmus of Darien, and went to work for the line of ships owned by Barkley & Co., of New York; then for the New Orleans Line, on the schooner Americus. Then he went to Quincy, Ill., from there back to Milwaukee, Wis., by the old stage line of Fink & Walker; then in 1852, he came to Salina, where he remained one summer, then to La Crosse Co., where he bought a farm of 80 acres, on which he built a hotel in 1856, at Stevenstown, a prosperous village in that day. He now owns 400 acres of land. In 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 8th W. V. I., the regiment known as the Eagle Regiment; he was taken prisoner at Corinth, taken to Jackson, Miss., and exchanged at Vicksburg; out of 500 men, there were 300 who died from exposure and starvation; of the 300 left, who were brought to Cairo, there were only nine men able to walk to the hospital, they were so weak; he was discharged February, 1863. His wife, Cordelia S. Packard, was born in Vermont in 1808; came with her parents, who settled near Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co., Wis., in 1837. They married in 1847; they have had ten children, six living - Sylvia (deceased), Charles, Franklin, Lincoln, Lilly (deceased), Marion, in the U. S. Army, in the Black Hills; Clarence, now at Galesville; Harmon, and Minnie and Elizabeth (deceased). Has been Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, and was Postmaster ten years in Jefferson County. Additional Comments: From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 841 - 842. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/lacrosse/bios/sasil650gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb