BIOGRAPHIES:  Nathaniel PLUMER, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Nathaniel Plumer, contractor and farmer, P. O. Durand, was born at
Bristol, N. H., December 8, 1831.  His parents, John and Hulda (George)
Plumer, were born at Meredith.  His paternal grandparents, Nathaniel
and Sally (Folsom) Plumer, represented old New England families as did
also his maternal grandparents, Josiah and Peace (Hodgdon) George.  In
1851 John Plumer removed with his family to Clarence, Green county,
Wis., and in 1855 to Durand township, where he purchased the farm upon
which our subject now resides, and engaged with S. L. Plumer in
building a saw-mill.  Later he removed to Canton township, where his
death occurred in 1879.  Mrs. Hulda Plumer still resides there.  When
the subject of this sketch was about ten years old the family removed
to Lowell, Mass., and he was educated at the New Hampton institution,
giving his attention chiefly to the study of mathematics and surveying.
He removed with his parents to Wisconsin, where he became engaged on
the surveys of different lines or railroads working on a line then
known as the Southern Wisconsin railroad, and another from Hudson to
Lake Superior, and was also engaged for some years on the government
survey of public lands.  For several years past he has been supplying
wood, ties, etc., for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad.  He
owns a farm here of about 200 acres.

Mr. Plumer married, September 12, 1860, Miss Sarah, daughter of Josiah
and Mary Dunlap, who was born at Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio.  They
have four children:  Etta (Mrs. A. Buchanan), David B., Nathan D. and
George B.  In politics Mr. Plumer is a republican, and has served as
chairman of the board of Durand township and was for many years county
surveyor of Pepin county.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 688-689.


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