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


         [page 180]
         
         WALTER MILES, City Marshal, Chilton. Born in Norfolk,
       England, May 11, 1850. In 1852, his parents came to 
       America, locating in Lockport. N. Y. In 1857, they 
       removed to Fond du Lac, Wis.; while here he attended 
       Oakfield's school. They moved to Leroy, in Dodge County, 
       where he learned the blacksmith's trade, with his father,
       and in 1866, he came to Chilton, and with his father, 
       opened a blacksmith shop. He was elected City Marshal 
       of Chilton, in 1881. In 1874, July 2, he married, but 
       lost his wife on Christmas morning of 1876; she left 
       one child, EDA MAY. In 1878, Mr. MILES made a tour of 
       the western frontier, with his rifle, exercising a 
       natural gift for sharp shooting, on large and small 
       game in western Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, where 
       he was known as "Moonlight Walt." Mr. MILES is a mem-
       ber of the temperance organization.
       
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