BIOGRAPHIES:  Isaac D. ALKIRE, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Isaac D. Alkire, retired farmer, P. O. Durand, was born near
Petersburg, Ill., December 2, 1826, a son of William and Elizabeth
(Denton) Alkire.  Two brothers of that name came from Holland to
Virginia in the year 1700, and settled on the south fork of the Potomac
river, near the forks.  They and their sons took part in the Indian
wars and also in the Revolution.  John Alkire, grandfather of our
subject, was a grandson of one of these two brothers, and was born in
1759.  He removed to Kentucky, but later to Ohio, from whence he
removed in 1824 to Petersburgh, Menard county, Ill., where his death
occurred in 1836.  He had eight children, of whom William Alkire was
the sixth.  The latter was born in Bath county, Ky., in 1802, and
removed with his parents to Ohio, where he was probably married.  The
Dentons were also an old family in Virginia.  William Alkire had ten
children; he died at Petersburgh, Ill., in 1885, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Alkire, died there in 1855.  Our subject was the third son of his
parents.  He attended the district school and, at twenty-one, began
life as a farm laborer.  He married, March 31, 1850, Louisa Elmore, who
was born in Illinois.  Her father, Peter Elmore, was a native of North
Carolina.  Mr. and Mrs. Alkire have one son, William E.  In 1861, Mr.
Alkire removed to Durand, and in 1866 purchased the farm where he now
resides.  For several years past he has been engaged in collecting and
arranging geological specimens and other curiosities.  He now has one
of the finest collections in the state and takes great pleasure in
exhibiting and explaining the same to his numerous visitors.  

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 736.


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