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Wisconsin Free Press
Saturday, 6 June, 1891

         OBITUARY
         
         A Pioneer Gone
         
         After a lingering illness, CHARLES B. SHELDON, the first
       white man to settle in Oconomowoc, died at his home, on
       Wednesday, thus severing another link in the chain which
       binds the past and present. MR. SHELDON was born in St.
       Lawrence county, New York, in 1812. In 1834 he turneed his
       steps westward. He was in Iowa during that winter, but in
       the spring of 1835 went to Mineral Point, Wis., where he
       worked at mining. In 1837 he followed the Indian trail from
       Prairieville to Oconomowoc, and built a pioneer shanty upon
       the claim of 160 acres, which remained his homestead until
       the day of his death. The changes that the half century of
       his life in Oconomowoc have wrought can faintly be imagined
       by the youth or the new-comer today. They are as dreams.
       But to him they were realities -- living history, written
       upon the open pages of nature's book -- such history as we
       are daily recording. But upon the pages of the succeeding
       fifty years will be no such revelations as those of which
       the departed pioneer was a part. Three children remain of
       MR. SHELDON'S family. They are ALBERT F., who resides at
       the homestead, and CHARLES and LIZZIE, children of a second
       marriage, who are at Spokane. Very little has been seen of
       MR. SHELDON of late years, but in the early days he was
       active, energetic, and was a prominent figure in the work
       of civilation of the wilderness.
       
         The funeral was held on Friday afternoon, from the
       residence.
       
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