BIOGRAPHIES:  Samuel Forrest PLUMMER, Arkansaw, 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 Forrest Plummer, manufacturer and dealer in furniture,
Arkansaw, Pepin county, was born in Clarence, town of Spring Grove,
Green county, Wis., May 28,1 853, a son of Hon. S. L. Plummer.  While
he was still a small child his parents came to Durand, Pepin county,
where he was reared until 1861, when he went to Waterville, Pepin
county, with his parents.  His education was limited to a few weeks'
attendance at the district school each winter.  When about fourteen
years old he began to learn the trade of a carpenter and wagon maker,
and worked in saw-mills and in a stave-mill as laborer, millwright and
sawyer until twenty-two years of age, when he engaged in farming.  He
carried on his farm until 1886, when he removed to the village of
Arkansaw, and ran a wagon shop one year, then purchased the W. F.
Hoolbrook shop, and does job work, planing, etc.  He also furnishes
power for the creamery adjacent.  He has spent considerable time in
lumbering.  August 1, 1875, Mr. Plummer married Miss Mary E., daughter
of Ferman and Mary (Kirke) Ames, and six children blessed this union: 
Samuel, Charles, Alma, Harry, Mary and Mattie.  Mrs. Plummer died
December 5, 1889, and October 26, 1890, Mr. Plummer married Miss Anna
M. Billeter, who has borne him one child, Irvin.  Mr. Plummer is a
republican in politics, and a man of good business ability.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 734.


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