Lacrosse-Waukesha County WI Archives Biographies.....Varness, John March 1809 - 
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JOHN VARNESS, retired; West Salem; born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., March, 1809. 
His parents died when he was a child. He was brought up in the family of his 
mother's brother. He lived in the State of New York until a young man, when he 
went to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, where he lived about five years; thence to 
Canada, where he lived about four years. He removed to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 
August, 1847, and to La Crosse Co., in 1854. Mr. Varness has been generally 
engaged in agricultural pursuits; has also been intimately connected with the 
flouring-mill interests of this part of the county. He built what is known as 
the Badger Mills, in Lewis Valley, and with Mr. Lovejoy, built the Salem Mill. 
He removed to the village of West Salem in 1872; still owns a farm in the town 
of Hamilton. His wife was Miss Lucy Moulton, a native of Massachusetts, but at 
the time of their marriage, a resident of Greene Co., N. Y. They have four 
children - John, Margaret, Orrin and Rosa; have lost two children - Achsah, 
the oldest child, and two boys in infancy.

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

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