BIOGRAPHIES:  Orrin James NEWCOMB, 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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Orrin James Newcomb, Pepin, was born June 13, 1850, and was the first
white child born in Pepin county.  He attended the Pepin high school
until twenty years old, although he began working on the river a part
of the time, when but thirteen years of age.  He was married November
27, 1871, to Mary A., daughter of John L. and Caroline Perry, who were
natives of Pennsylvania of Scotch descent.  Their children are:  Edward
J., born April 9, 1873; Bertram, August 29, 1874; Guy V., June 29,
1877; Ralph W., November 17, 1880, and Maud L., July 3, 1882.  For the
past twenty years Mr. Newcomb has held a license as steamboat pilot on
the Mississippi river, running chiefly between St. Paul and St. Louis,
and for seventeen years has held a license as master of steam vessels
on the Mississippi and its tributaries.  He is a republican in
politics, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member
of the A. O. U. W. and Pilots' associations.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 701.


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