Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Weston, Ruel March 7, 1802 - 
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RUEL WESTON, retired; has been a permanent resident of La Crosse since 1866. 
He resided here temporarily in the springs of 1856-57-58. He was born in 
Skowhegan, Somerset Co., Me., March 7, 1802; son of Stephen Weston, and lived 
on the farm on which he was born till he was 60 years old. He was one of a 
family of ten children who were all alive when the youngest was 45 years of 
age. Mr. Weston and two sisters now living in Brooklyn, N. Y., are the only 
survivors at this writing. He was married in Maine, Sept. 1, 1830, to Eliza 
Woodman, who was born in 1810, and is still living. Mr. Weston held several 
official positions in his native State, and represented his district in the 
State Legislature of 1860. He lived a short time in Bureau Co., Ill., previous 
to locating permanently in La Crosse. In addition to his farming, he was in 
the lumber business in Maine for about twenty years, and has also been in that 
business fourteen years of the time he has resided in La Crosse. Mr. and Mrs. 
Weston have four children - Joshua W., Reuel F., Sarah, now Mrs. Rufus 
Douglass, and John H. - all residents of La Crosse except the youngest, J. H., 
who is General Manager and Secretary of the "Red Elephant Mining Co.," of 
Colorado; office 33 Broad st., New York City.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 807.

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