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Submitted by Debbie Barrett June 13, 2001
mrsgrinnin@home.com

THEODORE A. BRITTON, farmer, P. O. Elmwood, Pierce county, is a son of 
Nathaniel Britton, who was born in New Jersey in 1817, and married Rebecca,
daughter of John and Katie Housler.  Five children were born to them, namely:
Theodore A., Polly (Mrs. Webb), Augustine St. Clare, Sylvanus F. and Lucy B.
(Mrs. Huller).  Thomas A. was born January 22, 1845, in McKean county, Pa.,
and lived there with his parents until twenty years of age, when he came to
Pierce county, to what was then the town of Martel, but later was divided,
and it was called Spring Lake.  It was then a dense wilderness, having no
roads, only trails through the woods made by marking the trees.  In 1868 he
married Sarah J., daughter of Samuel Stratton, and settled in the valley and
commenced to make a home.  In April, 1878, his wife died leaving him with
two children:  Viola E. and Nathaniel L.  In 1880 he married Mary E., 
daughter of Benjamin R. and Ann Rackliff, and started again to build up a 
home.  His second wife died in 1884, leaving him three more children: 
Jennie E., Theodore A. and Edward H.  He has since married Jaline R.,
daughter of Andrew and Amanda Harrold.  Largely through his efforts a nice
Free-Will Baptist church was erected, of which he is an active member.  He
is interested in school matters, and has worked hard to advance the 
educational interests in his locality, and has done much toward supplanting
the old log school house by a good modern one.  His aim has always been a 
good moral community, and it is largely through his efforts that there have
been no saloons in town.  He is widely known from having sold wagons, 
sleighs and buggies for a good many years in connection with his farming.

--Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens,
Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by George Forrester.
Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Page 658