BIOGRAPHIES: William G. HYSLOP, Osseo, Trempealeau Co., WI

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William G. Hyslop, proprietor of the Blair Flour Mills, has been one of the 
most prominent mill and creamery men in this part of the state. He was born 
at Osseo, in this county, Feb. 26, 1864, the son of Ebenezer and Anna (Gillespie) 
Hyslop. Ebenezer Hyslop, a retired carpenter, now living in Osseo, at the age 
of 88 years, was born in Scotland, came to America in 1850, lived two years 
in New York City, and four years in Richland County, Wisconsin, and in 1859 
came to Osseo, this county, where he has since resided, his wife, whom he 
married in 1850 having died in 1899, at the age of 69 years. William G. Hyslop 
was reared in Osseo, and there received his education. For 25 years he devoted 
his time to the creamery business, having at one period no less than five 
establishments under his management. He learned his trade at Osseo; he was 
manager of the creameries at Ettrick and Blair; he built the creamery at Alma 
Center, and he purchased the creameries at Melrose and Neillsville. In 1901 he 
bought his present mill, and operated it in connection with his management of 
the Blair creamery. In 1909 he rented the mill and took up farming at Bowman, 
N. D. In February, 1916, he again resumed charge of the mill. A prominent man 
in the community, he has been on the village council for many terms, ten years 
of which he was its president. He also served on year as a member of the county 
board of supervisors. His fraternal associations are with the Masonic order, the 
Modern Woodmen and the Beavers. Mr. Hyslop was married Oct. 22, 1877, to Ella 
Quinn, born in Ettrick, April 26, 1864, daughter of James and Susan Quinn, the 
former of whom died in 1912 at the age of 91, and the latter in 1899 at the age 
of 69 years. Mr. and Mrs. Hyslop have five children: Clayton, Orton, Leland, 
Faye and Virda, the three last mentioned residing at home. Clayton and Orton 
were graduated from the Northwestern Medical School, then performed interne 
service in Mercy Hospital, Chicago, and are both now practicing physicians, 
located in that city. 

--Transcribed from "The History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917" 
pages 556-557.