Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Robert BOANTREE

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views
of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881. p.1189

Robert Boantree, miller, Eureka, was born in Middleton, Eng., July 20,
1844, and emigrated with his mother to America in February, 1855, and
settled in Clockville, Madison Co., N.Y., where they lived about two years;
then went to Oneida Co., N.Y., and worked five years in Helca Furnace
Works, and attended school in winter; went to Morrisville, Madison Co.,
N.Y., and learned his trade, living three years; then to Durhamville,
Oneida Co., N.Y., worked in a mill about one year; then to Oriskany in fall
and lived there about one year; then to Clinton, same county, and took
charge of his first mill, where he worked fifteen months; then to
Northwestern, same county, and ran a mill eight months; then went to
Michigan prospecting; then to East Troy, Walworth Co., Wis., and took
charge of a grist mill eighteen months; then to Milwaukee, worked two and a
half years in a mill; then to West Troy, Wis., and started a new mill; was
there three years. He was married there Sept. 16, 1878, to Miss Sophia C.
Wright, who was born in West Troy. From there he moved to Milwaukee and
worked in different mill a number of years; then to Nebraska and worked two
and a half years in a mill at Schuyler, Colfax Co. His wife died there May
15, 1874; then he went to Parsons, Kansas, and took charge of a mill two
and a half years; then returned to Milwaukee and engaged in milling two
years; then to Eureka, Wis., July, 1879. He was again married in Milwaukee,
April, 1879, to Miss Clara Molser; she was born in Austria. He had two
children by his first wife- Jennie S. and Robert E. He is a member of the
I.O.O.F., also the Knights of Pythias, a beneficiary association.