BIOGRAPHIES:  Milton HOLDEN, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Milton Holden, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born at Dowlingville (now
Baxter), Jefferson county, Pa., March 3, 1824, and is a son of Stephen
and Polly (Shields) Holden.  His father, who was a native of Maine, was
killed by a falling tree when Milton was about two years old, and his
mother soon after removed to Clarion county, Pa.  Subsequently she was
married to David Fayerweather, and removed to Troy (Summerville), Pa.,
in 1833.  Our subject received a limited education, and at seventeen
began to learn the trade of a mill-wright.  October 27, 1846, he
married Matilda, daughter of John and Rebecca Fuller.  Their children
were:  Caroline O. (Mrs. G. Varnum), born November 2, 1847, died
October 29, 1881; Mary A. E. (Mrs. G. Haling), born June 18, 1850, died
January 25, 1885; Sarah J. (Mrs. J. Anderson, Reads Landing, Minn.),
born February 14, 1853; Clara O. (Mrs. J. Kidd), born August 17, 1855. 
Mrs. Holden died September 9, 1869, and November 12, 1874, Mr. Holden
married Mrs. Eliza Hutchinson, who had one child, George W., born
December 25, 1863, now in Ohioville, Pa.  Since the death of Mrs.
Haling, his daughter, her three sons, Mark S., Guy W. and George W.,
reside with Mr. Holden.

Mr. Holden worked as a farmer and lumberman about six years in
Pennsylvania, then sold out and came west, arriving at Pepin in May,
1853.  He entered a claim on section nineteen, township twenty-three,
range fourteen, and bought three acres on the lake shore, where he
built a house in which he lived until 1870, when he removed to the
farm, which now includes 240 acres.  For several years after coming to
Pepin he followed his trade, building some of the first mills in the
Chippewa Valley.  He is a republican in politics, and has served
several years as school director and supervisor.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 478 & 481.


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