BIOGRAPHIES:  William B. NEWCOMB, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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WILLIAM B. NEWCOMB, farmer and pilot, Pepin, came to this vicinity in
1845; lived on the other side of the river one year; then came on this
side in 1846; made a claim where now is the village of Pepin, split
some rails and plowed a piece of ground. He did not do much more on his
claim until about the time ot his marriage to Miss Esther Foster, of
Ft. Madison, Iowa, which occurred June 19, 1849. During most of this
time, he was working for J. H. Knapp, of Menomonee. He built a dwelling
on his claim and commenced residing there, carrying on the farm and
piloting on the Mississippi River in the season of it, piloting, in
all, about twenty-five years. He laid out the village of Pepin in 1855,
and engaged actively in building up the village, which grew rapidly
until the financial crisis of 1857, Mr. Newcomb was born in Jefferson
Co., Pa., near Brookville, Nov. 24, 1822; he came to Lee Co., Iowa, in
1843, and in 1845, to Wisconsin, as above stated. He has held, most of
the time, some town or county office since the organization of the
territory, where he resides. He was Register of Deeds for Dunn County
when Pepin was part of Dunn County, also Register of Deeds of Pepin
County after it was organized; also Treasurer of Pepin County and
Justice of the Peace for the past ten years; also Postmaster at Pepin
for many years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He has five
children living, and all residing at Pepin-Orin James, Mary Eliza,
John, Isaac and William B.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 704


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