Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: David Wetherby ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ 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. 1166 David Wetherby, lumberman and logger. He was born in New Brunswick Oct. 1, 1823, and began work for his father, David Weatherby, of the St. Croix River, in Maine and New Brunswick, at the age of nineteen years, where he followed lumbering until 1855, and in September of the same year came to Oshkosh, Wis.; he first worked four years for other parties in the pineries, and began business on his own hook in the winter of 1859; he employs about thirty men during the logging season, and gets out on an average two million to three million feet; for the last seven years, he has been engaged in the Little Wolf pineries, and sells his products in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. He was married in New Brunswick, Sept. 22, 1847, to Miss Eliza A. McCullough, who was born in the latter place; they have three children living- Joseph M., now married and engaged for his father in the pineries; Nettie M., now married to Mr. Evan Ewens and living in the city; David T., at home.