BIOGRAPHIES:  Milton B. AXTELL, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Milton B. Axtell, physician and surgeon, Pepin, was born at Sandy
Creek, Mercer county, Pa., November 28, 1812.  His parents were Samuel
and Mary (Lovridge) Axtell, the former of whom was born in Washington
county, Pa., November 24, 1791, and died about 1864.  He was a
descendant of Thomas Axtell, who fled from England about 1660, his
father, a follower of Cromwell, having been executed by the Loyalists. 
Dr. Axtell was educated at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., and at
Cleveland Medical college.  He began practicing at West Greenville,
Pa., in 1852, and practiced at Adamsville, Pa., in 1854 and 1856.  In
the fall of 1856 he came to Pepin, having been married September 9, of
that year, to Emeline, daughter of Robert and Catherine (Randolph)
McMichael.  Mrs. Axtell was born at Fallowfield, Pa., February 25,
1836.  Their children are:  Robert A.; Oscar M. and Orla B., twins;
Mary E., born October 1, 1860; Samuel, September 26, 1864; Catherine,
now Mrs. H. M. Magee, Red Cedar, Wis., born July 21, 1866; Emma, March
29, 1869; John M., March 18, 1871; Ethel L., September 18, 1875; Anna
D., October 1, 1877; Edith C., June 19, 1879, and Lloyd A., February
11, 1881.  Since coming to Pepin, Dr. Axtell has been actively engaged
in the practice of his profession.  In 1888 he came near losing his
life by blood-poisoning, his right arm being permanently crippled.  In
politics he is an active democrat, and has held nearly every office in
township, village and county.  He is identified with the Wabasha County
Medical society.

Robert A. Axtell, publisher of the Pepin "Star," was born at Pepin
November 11, 1857.  He attended the Pepin high school until twenty
years of age, when he began teaching.  He clerked in a drug store in
1882 and 1883.  In August, 1885, he purchased the Pepin "Star," in
company with his brother, Orla B., which paper they still publish.  He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is democratic in his
political views.  He has served one year as village clerk.

Orla B. Axtell, publisher of the Pepin "Star," was born in Pepin
November 6, 1862, and was educated at the Pepin high school, from which
he graduated in 1882, and immediately began learning the printer's
trade.  He taught school three months in 1883, but has given most of
his time to his profession for which he seems to be peculiarly fitted. 
He is a democrat politically, and is a Free Mason.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 695-696.



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