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


         [page 187-188]
         
         C. W. THURSTON, farmer, P.O. Stockbridge. Born in Oneida
       Co., N.Y., Jan. 19, 1829. He lived here till he was seventeen
       years of age, his ?ather being a farmer and miller. He shared 
       in the same work, attending meantime the district school, and 
       afterwards the Dicksville Institute. In 1846, with other mem-
       bers of the family, he came to Wisconsin, settling on Lot 32. 
       In 1847, he taught school, teaching, in all, about ten terms. 
       In 1856, he moved on to the lot where they live at present. 
       He has been prominent in politics. In 1854, he was Sheriff of 
       Calumet County; has been Register of Deeds, and in 1873 was 
       elected County Judge; was County Superintendent of Schools,
       and has been Chairman of both Town and County boards. He has
       been married twice - the first time in 1854, his wife dying 
       in 1871; the second time in 1873, to Miss BOURNE, of Stock-
       bridge. By the two marriages he has six children. He helped 
       raise a company and enlisted in the 16th Wis. V. I., and was 
       discharged in 1865. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
       Church, and belongs to the I. O. O. F.
       
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