BIOGRAPHIES:  Samuel L. HUNSTABLE, 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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Samuel L. Hunstable, farmer and well driller, P. O. Ella, Pepin
county, was born in Concord, Mass., April 22, 1837, and is a son of
George W. and Eunice (Brooks) Hunstable, the former of English and the
latter of French descent.  He was one of five children born to his
parents, the others being George A., Susan (Mrs. P. Vautrot), Elizabeth
(Mrs. W. Lockhart) and Charles A.  When Samuel was four years old, the
family moved to Greenville, Pa., where he received a common-school
education and, at the age of thirteen years, began working on the
Pittsburgh and Erie canal, which he continued until 1854.  He then came
west, stopping first at Port Huron, Mich., where he worked in a saw-
mill, thence went to Freeport, Iowa, and from there, in 1855, to La
Crosse, Wis.  There he found employment in a hotel and on the river,
and later engaged in farming.  October 17, 1861, Mr. Hunstable enlisted
in Company D, Fourteenth Wisconsin infantry, and April 15, 1863, was
commissioned first lieutenant, Company H, Forty-eighth United States
colored infantry.  March 18, 1864, he was promoted to a captaincy.  He
was mustered out at Baton Rouge, La., January 4, 1866.  During this
protracted service he took part in the battles of Shiloh, Iuka,
Corinth, and the siege of Vicksburg, also skirmishes about Goodrich
Landing and Coleman Cross roads.  He accompanied Steele's expedition to
Pensacola, Fla., and thence by land to Ft. Blakely, Ala., in the siege
of which he took part.  Thence the expedition proceeded via Mobile to
Montgomery, where they received reliable intelligence of Lee's
surrender.  After this he sent to New Orleans and thence to Shreveport,
La., where he served on a police duty until his discharge.  He was
wounded at Corinth which disabled him until the following April.

After his discharge, Mr. Hunstable went to Goodhue county, Minn.,
where he engaged in farming.  In 1868 he removed to Pleasant Hill, Mo.,
but returned to Minnesota the following year.  In 1870 he came to
Frankfort township, Pepin county, and purchased a farm where he still
resides.  He is also engaged in well drilling.  July 30, 1861, Mr.
Hunstable married Miss Celestia, daughter of Rufus and Mercy Savage. 
Eleven children have blessed their union, namely:  Anna L. (Mrs. W.
Reynolds), George A., Fred, John K., Herbert S., Irvin W., Dix L.,
Albert W., Alice K., Custer and Myrtie M.  Politically Mr. Hunstable is
a republican, and has served the town as chairman of the board since
1877.  He is a member of the Masonic order and of the G. A. R.  Mrs.
Hunstable has filled the office of postmistress for the past two years.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 763-764.


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