Lacrosse-Dane-Walworth County WI Archives Biographies.....Van Waters, William 1817 - 
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WILLIAM VAN WATERS, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 27; P. O. West Salem; born 
in Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1817. His parents removed to St. Lawrence County 
when he was a boy, where they resided until their decease. He came from St. 
Lawrence County to Madison Wis., in the fall of 1853; spent the following 
winter in East Troy, Walworth Co., and soon after, purchased his present farm 
of Dr. Jacob McCrary, who entered the farm and was a resident of La Crosse 
City at the time. Mr. Van Water's brother, George, came with him to La Crosse 
Valley. He now lives in Jackson County. Mr. Van Water's first wife was Mary 
Campbell; born in St. Lawrence County. His present wife was Mrs. Mary Adams; 
has four children by first marriage - Mary, now Mrs. Edwin D. Wood; William 
U., Louise and Cora. Lost two children. Mr. Van Waters is one of the prominent 
and intelligent farmers of the town of Hamilton. Has served a term in the 
Legislature; elected in the fall of 1876. Has been Chairman of the Town Board 
several times. He raised the first field of clover produced in the town and 
owned the first steam thresher.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 831.

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