BIOGRAPHIES:  Hon. Samuel L. PLUMMER, Durand Township, Pepin Co., WI

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HON. SAMUEL L. PLUMMER, farmer. Came to the north of Bear Creek (now
in Durand Tp.), early in the Spring of 1855. At that time Perry Curtis
had a log house there, the only one east of the Chippewa for many
miles. C. N. Averill came into the town of Lima two days before Mr. P.
reached his place. He selected a mill site near the mouth of Bear
Creek, built a saw-mill which he sold out the next year to a cousin,
who ran the mill as long as there was pine in the vicinity to saw. Mr.
P. then built a saw-mill at Durand for Prindle, Ellsworth & Co., of
Massachusetts, and ran the mill about eighteen months, then built a
wagon shop and a sash and door factory at Durand. In 1861 he moved to a
farm on Dead Lake Prairie, near Arkansaw, and has engaged in farming
since. His residence on his farm of 420 acres is on Sec. 35, Township
25, Range 13 west. HIe was born in New Hampton, N. H., March 5, 1828.
At sixteen years of age he went to Massachusetts and lived there four
years, then to New Orleans one year, and in 1849 came to Wisconsin and
lived a while near Beloit, afterward near Brodhead in Green Co., where
he worked at his trade of carpenter. He was married, May 30, 1852, to
Miss Eunice Belknap, of Hartley, Canada. They have nine children living-
Forest, David, Frank, Arthur, Mary, Willie, Carrie, Lillie and Lane.
Mr. P. is descended from a long-lived stock. His great grandfather,
Jesse Plummer, lived to a great age. His grandfather, Nathan Plummer,
one of nine brothers, lived to be eighty-five years old, and the ages
of the nine averaged over eighty years. Iis maternal grandfather,
Daniel Cooley, of New Hampton, N. H., lived to the age of one hundred
years. Mr. P. was member ot the Assembly for the year 1874; is
president of the Pepin County Agricultural Society; has held the office
of County Judge since 1861; has been member of the County Board most of
the time since then, and Chairman of the Town of Waterville all but
three of the twenty years he has resided in the town.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 706


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