BIOGRAPHIES:  George TOPLISS, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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GEORGE TOPLISS, wagon manufacturer and general blacksmith, Pepin,
landed with his family at Pepin, in January, 1869, with $107.50; bought
a place for $350, paid $100 down and had left $7.50, with which to
commence business and meet family expenses. The household furniture was
very meager and very primitive, consisting, for the first three years,
of such things only as he himself made for the emergencies. From such a
straitened beginning, he has built up an increasingly large and
prosperous business. He was born at Castle Dunnington, Leicestershire,
Eng., June 1, 1842. When old enough, he learned the trade of
wagonmaking, painting and blacksmithing. He left England, June 24,
1866; arrived at New York in July, and went to Slatington, Lehigh Co.,
Pa., where he lived until he came to Pepin, in 1869, He was married,
April 30, 1864, to Miss Fanny Wade, of Derby, Eng. They have five
children living-George Robert, Clara Emma, Eliza Ann, Sarah Ellen,
Fanny. His father, William Topliss, was killed on Christmas day, 1841,
and his mother (Sarah) was left destitute, with five children to
support. This she did by laundry work. She died in 1877, at the age of
seventy-five years. His brothers and sisters are all living in England.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 705


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