BIOGRAPHIES:  George H. OLDS, Whitehall, Trempealeau Co., WI

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GEORGE H. OLDS, Postmaster, Whitehall, was born in Chenango Co., 
N. Y., Jan. 8, 1834; is the son of William Olds, who was born in 
the town of Hillsdale, N. Y., March 1, 1799, and came with his family 
to Wisconsin in 1853. and settled on a farm in Trempealeau County, 
of which he bought the first 40 acres from William Cran, afterward 
buying some from the Government, and kept on adding to it until he 
has in all 520 acres.  William had another son, James D., who came 
to Wisconsin two years previous to 1853 and located at Chippewa Falls, 
but came to Trempealeau County to join his father after his arrival 
here.  In 1857, the subject of this sketch went in company with his
brother, James D., to Caledonia, when they commenced in the mercantile
business and farming. Here he remained until 1863, with the exception 
of a part of the year 1861, when he was in the war, and then moved on 
Pigeon Creek, and in the spring of 1874, came to Whitehall, where he 
was appointed to the position of Postmaster, holding that office ever 
since. Mr. Olds bought the first house sold in the village of Whitehall 
and served the first papers as Deputy Sheriff, issued in the 
Trempealeau County Court in 1854, by Judge Gale.

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

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