BIOGRAPHIES:  Lucius E. BYINGTON, Ella, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Lucius E. Byington, farmer, P. O. Ella, Pepin county, was born at
Bristol, Wis., September 8, 1842, and when but six years old he removed
with his parents to Connecticut.  AT the age of thirteen years he began
work in a factory, which occupation he followed most of the time until
he was twenty-one.  In 1863 he came west with his parents and engaged
in teaming, and was occupied most of the season in hauling government
supplies across the plains of Minnesota and Dakota to the site of Fort
Wadsworth.  IN 1868 he bought the present homestead, then wild land,
and began to make improvements.  He now owns a well improved farm of
320 acres, and is devoting considerable attention to breeding Percheron
horses.  His farm is one of the best in the county.  November 6, 1870,
he married Miss Mary F. Hilliard, who bore him two children:  Bertha E.
(now deceased) and Charles E.  Mrs. Byington, who was born September
18, 1851, died October 4, 1874.  November 25, 1875, Mr. Byington
married Miss Kate E. Hawkins, who bore him six children:  Harriet E.,
Marie E., Orrin E., Lucius E., Russel E. and Adaline T.  Mrs. Kate E.
Byington died September 22, 1889.  In politics Mr. Byington is a
republican, but does not aspire to public office.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 716.


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