Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Toms, J. W. 1828 - 
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J. W. TOMS, born in West Bloomfield, N. Y., in 1828; his parents moved to 
Michigan in 1833. In 1847, he was a student in the Michigan University; 
graduated at the National Law School of Ballston Spa, N. Y.; in 1853, became 
an assistant editor of the Detroit "Advertiser", with which paper he was 
connected for three years; failing eyesight compelled him to give up all 
business of a professional character, and he moved to Pontiac, in the same 
State, where he became a State Commissionery of Roads, and located the very 
important one from Ionia to Mackinaw, as also a number of ditches in various 
sections; in 1865, he came to La Crosse and went into his present business as 
detailed above.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 802.

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