BIOGRAPHIES: Josephy AUGUSTINE, Lincoln Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Joseph Augustine, a veteran of the Civil War, and for many years an honored 
resident of Lincoln Township, was born in West Virginia, Aug. 7, 1841, son 
of Jacob F. R. and Justina (Null) Augustine.  He was reared in Pennsylvania, 
and in 1862 tendered his services to the Union government as a carpenter.  
He served through the great conflict as a bridge builder in the armies of 
General Sherman and General Thomas.  At the close of the hostilities he 
came to Wisconsin in 1865, and for several years divided his time between 
Eau Claire, where he was employed as a carpenter, and the pine forests of 
the state, where he was employed as a cook.  In 1874 he came to Whitehall, 
where he followed his trade as carpenter until 1885, when he purchased a 
farm in Lincoln Township, town 22, range 28, and moved thereon.  When he 
purchased the tract it was covered with timber.  He cleared the land, 
erected buildings, added to his original purchase, and gradually deveoped 
his place until he had a splendid estate of 200 acres located in sections 
14, 23 and 24, to which he gave the name of Sunny Hill farm.  The home, a 
frame structure of two stories and a basement, with ten good-sized rooms, 
was erected in 1898.  The barn, a frame structure, 40 by 70 feet, was erected 
in 1906.  A silo, 16 by 40 feet, of cement blocks, was constructed in 1908.  
One of the features of the place is a valuable orchard of two and a half 
acres.  General farming is conducted on a generous scale, and a specialty is 
made of fine herd of grade Holstein cattle.  Another interesting feature is 
the production of honey, some thirty colonies of the finest Italian bees 
being maintained.  The sons, Frank and Clarence, under the name of the 
Augustine Brothers, have made the place widely known through the breeding of 
ferrets.  Mr. Augustine was married in 1868 to Maria Borea, who was born in 
1843.  She died in 1870, leaving one child, Fannie, who married D. O. Sweet, 
a farmer of Whitehall, and died in 1902.  March 14, 1874, Mr. Augustine 
married Francis E. (Mason) Staples.  She was born in Litchfield, Conn., 
March 9, 1846, daughter of Charles S. and Rosetta T. Bissell, natives of 
Connecticut, and this union was blessed with seven children:  Jessie, who 
died at the age of two years; Ray, who died at the age of one year; Ernest, 
who died at the age of two years; Bessie, a stenographer at St. Paul; Frank 
and Clarence, who are at home and Charles, who died at the age of nine years.  
By her marriage to W. S. Staples of Kilbourn City, a veteran of Comapny K, 
42nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Mrs. Augustine has three children:  Fred M., 
a hardware merchant of Little Rock, Kan.; Clifford D., a commercial man of 
St. Paul, and Marcia, who is a clerk in the pension office at Washington, D. C.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", 
pages 452 - 453