BIOGRAPHIES: Darwin C. CILLEY, Burnside Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Darwin C. Cilley, who is successfully engaged in operating the old Cilley 
farm of 200 acres in section 4, Burnside Township, was born in Houston, 
Minn., March 12, 1861, son of David C. and Anna E. (Wright) Cilley.  He 
was reared partly in Houston and then on his parents' farm in Burnside 
Township, this county, and began to assist his father at an early age.  
He has always resided on the homestead since coming here in childhood, 
and since taking its management in hand has operated it with profitable 
results.  The property is well improved and is kept in good shape by Mr. 
Cilley, whose knowledge of practical farming is thorough and extensive.  
June 18, 1890, Mr. Cilley was united in marriage with Clara Boesden, who 
was born in Arcadia, this county, April 15, 1872.  Her father, Stephen 
Boesden, who was born in Kent, England, in 1830, came to Arcadia, Wis., 
in 1860, and died April 2, 1910.  His wife, whose maiden name was Eliza 
Leonard, died in 1912, at the age of 54 years.  Mr. and Mrs. Cilley have 
been the parents of nine children:  Josephine, born Nov. 11, 1891, who 
married Fred Sieh, a farmer of Minong, Wis.; James, born July 13, 1893; 
David L., born April 3, 1895; Susan, born Feb. 23, 1897; Clara, born March 
13, 1899, now wife of Herbert Coardes; Henry, born March 26, 1901; Margaret 
N., born July 23, 1906; Estella N., born Oct. 6, 1908, and Dorothy M., born 
June 25, 1904.  David L. is in the United States service, having gone south 
with the Sixth Wisconsin.  Susan is a graduate of the Eau Claire Training 
school and is now teaching.  With the Cilley family lives the venerable and 
gracious mother, Mrs. David C. Cilley.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 653-654