Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Skells, William April 1, 1827 - 
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WILLIAM SKELLS, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Onalaska; was born in Cambridgeshire, 
England, April 1, 1827. Came to America in 1854; worked by the month until he 
came to Wisconsin in 1857; now owns 140 acres of land, on which he has made 
all of the improvements. Enlisted in Co. F, 25th W. V. I., in 1864; discharged 
in 1865. His wife, Emma S. Rust, was born in Norfolk, England, in 1830, and 
married in 1856; they have four children - William E., born March 28, 1858; 
Emma A., born Nov. 6, 1859; Eliza B., born Sept. 29, 1863; Thomas H., born 
Sept. 4, 1866. Has been Clerk, Assessor and Justice of the Peace.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 856.

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