Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Van Wie, H. C. 1840 - 
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H. C. VAN WIE, contractor and builder, is a native of Albany, N. Y., born in 
1840; son of Cornelius H. Van Wie, who belonged to one of the old Holland 
families, who first settled that part of New York. He was a carpenter and ship 
builder, and was for several years proprietor of the ship-yard at Greenbush, 
on the Hudson River. He removed to Iowa in 1853, and now lives in Texas. H. C. 
Van Wie learned the carpenter's trade of his father. He enlisted in the winter 
of 1862 in the 1st Iowa V. I., Co. C, and was in the service two and a half 
years. After he left the army he lived in Waterloo, Iowa, till 1870, since 
which time he has resided in La Crosse and worked most of the time for the C., 
M. & St. P. R. R. Co.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 804.

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