BIOGRAPHIES:  George McCANN, Whitehall, Trempealeau Co., WI

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GEORGE McCANN, section boss of Sec. 29 of the Green Bay & 
Minnesota Railroad at Whitehall, was born in England Dec. 5, 1849; 
left there in 1870, and went to Canada with his brother, where he 
remained one year working at constructing railroads, and then came 
to the United States, where the engaged with the Green Bay Railroad 
Company, and has been with them ever since. Mr. McCann is a member 
of the I. 0. 0. F., Trempealeau Valley Lodge, No. 249, and was 
married in 1875, to Miss Millie Tuttle of Dexterville, Wood Co., 
Wis, who was born March 17, 1855. They have three children-Mary E., 
Annie M. and George H.  Mr. McCann was in the British Navy for eight 
years, sailing, in 1862, around the Cape of Good Hope, and from 
there to the East Indies; then back to Portsmouth, then back around
the Cape of Good Hope to Hong Kong, China; then to the East Indies; 
then to Ceylon, and was engaged in the Abyssinian war.

--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 1041

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