Lacrosse-Walworth County WI Archives Biographies.....Van Zandt, William September 29, 1826 - 
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WILLIAM VAN ZANDT, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. West Salem; born in Columbia Co., 
Penn., Sept. 29, 1826. His parents removed to Lake Co., Ohio, when he was 10 
years of age, and to the town of East Troy, Walworth Co., Wis., in 1842. They 
still reside in East Troy. His father was born in 1793, his mother in 1796. 
Mr. Van Zandt came to La Crose with Mr. E. F. Edwards, in May, 1852. He taught 
a school the following winter in the town of Neshonoc, in what is now the town 
of Hamilton. This was the first school taught in the La Crosse Valley, between 
the city of La Crosse and Sparta. The following season, he rented a farm in 
the town of Burns. This is the farm now owned by Mr. John Bradley. In the fall 
of 1853, he returned to Walworth County, where he passed the winter, and came 
back in May, 1854, and entered a farm in Section 2, town of Burns. This farm 
he owned for ten years. He removed to the village of West Salem in 1864, and 
engaged in the hardware business. In 1866, he took in a partner - Mr. V. M. 
Adams. Their firm engaged in the hardware and grocery trade till 1868, when 
Mr. Van Zandt sold his interest to Mr. Adams and purchased his present farm of 
Mr. A. Eldred, where he has since lived. He was married in 1851, to Lucretia 
Jewett, daughter of Marcus L. Jewett, who settled in Sauk County in 1854, and 
came to La Crosse County in 1862; her father, now deceased, was a soldier in 
the war for the Union; her mother is still living in La Crosse County. Mr. Van 
Zandt has two children - W. Isaiah and Edith E. He was the first School 
Superintendent of the town of Neshonoc; has held various town offices; was 
Chairman of the Town Board of Burns for five or six years; held the same 
office in the town of Hamilton for seven years; was Census Marshal in 1870; 
was County Commissioner in 1867.

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

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