BIOGRAPHIES:  Hon. Vivus W. DORWIN, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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HON. VIVUS W. DORWIN, miller and farmer. Was born in Champion,
Jefferson Co., N. Y., Jan. 15, 1832. He came West in the Spring of
1854, and settled in Jackson, Adams Co., Wis. In the Spring of 1856 he
came to Pepin County, and selected land for a farm, and settled on it,
on Bear Creek, near Durand, where he has since resided. In 1857 he
built, on Sec. 23, the first grist-mill in all this section of country.
It contained two run of stone, to which he has since added another run.
In 1865 he built a carding-mill, and in 1872 a cheese factory, which
uses the milk of over a hundred cows, about one-half supplied from his
own farm. He enlisted September, 1862, as captain of Co. G, 25th Wis.
Vol., and continued in active service until he was compelled to resign,
on account of ill health, September, 1863. He is now Chairman of the
Town Board of Durand, and has been for many years. Twice elected member
of the Assembly, in 1877 and 1878. He was married, March 15, 1854, to
Miss Helen Van Hoesen, of Jefferson Co., N. Y. They have had eleven
children, all living, and none of them have ever been seriously sick.
Their names in the order of their ages, are as follows: William V.,
Helen Inez, Hattie Marietta, Marcellus, John, Lillian, Edward S.,
Laura, Ella Cora, Mary, and Roscoe.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 701


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