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

WILBUR T. CHURCHILL, merchant, Rock Elm, Pierce county, was born in Brook-
field, Waukesha county, Wis., January 22, 1857.  His grandfather, David
Churchill, was a native of England, and had three sons: David, Hervey and
Otis.  Otis Churchill was born in Boston, January 12, 1805, and when seven
years old, removed with his parents to New York.  May 31, 1831, he married
Mary Russell, who bore him five children:  Eliza, David H., Mary J., Ruth A.
and James.  Mrs. Mary Churchill died May 10, 1842, and Mr. Churchill after-
ward married Belinda Russell, who bore him seven children: William O.,
Wesley R., Mary S., Sarah J., Harriet M., Franklin B., and Wilbur T.  Mrs.
Belinda Churchill died June 18, 1859, and Mr. Churchill again married, 
December 17, 1862, the lady of his choice being Mary L. Pomeroy.  In 1856, 
Mr. Churchill came to Brookfield, Wis., where he kept a store.  In 1863, he
sold out, intending to move to Nebraska, but on reaching St. Joseph, Mo., 
he found public sentiment unfavorable to northern people and went to 
Vineland, N. J.  In 1864 he returned to Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1867 came 
to Rock Elm, and purchased a farm, where he resided until his death,
September 16, 1886.  He had been a member of the Methodist church since 
his twenty-second year.  At the age of ten years Wilbur T. came to Rock Elm
township, Pierce county, which was then a wilderness.  The family had but
four dollars in cash when they arrived here, and flour then cost ten dollars
per hundred weight.  Our subject worked on the farm, and later on the C., 
M. & St. P. R. R. as fireman and baggage-master.  In 1886 he opened a store
at Rock Elm, which he still carries on.  October 7, 1886, Mr. Churchill 
married Miss Jennie Whipp, and they have two children, Forrest W. and Harold
O.  In politics he is an enthusiastic republican and has held the office of 
postmaster since July, 1889.

--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 750