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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 164]
         
         JOHN C. RATHBUN, Superintendent of Schools, Buffalo County,
       Alma, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 19, 1854. When he 
       was two years old his parents removed to Wisconsin, and their 
       first location was in Gilmanton, this county. His father, C. W. 
       RATHBUN, was one of the first settlers in that town. MR. RATH-
       BUN'S early life was spent on his father's farm, and in Winter 
       attending school. In 1872, he went to Madison and attended the 
       State University, and graduated in the Summer of 1877. In the 
       same Fall he was elected County Superintendent of Schools and 
       in 1879 was re-elected. He married in 1878, LIBBIE GOLDENBERGER, 
       a native of Boston. They have one child, CHAUNCY B.
       
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