Bio: Tarbox, Byron R. (1881)

 
Contact: Janet Schwarze

 

Surnames: Tarbox, Bullis

 

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1217

BYRON R. TARBOX, farmer and blacksmith, Sec. 15, 23, 3 east. A clearing was commenced on the farm on which Mr. Tarbox resides in 1854, for T. Weston & Co. The Octagon mill, just below here, was built by Williams & Bro. in 1852, and Mr. Tarbox came here about that time to work at the mill, although he did not settle down on the farm he now lives on until May, 1870. His father, Roswell B., a lumberman, came to Wis. in l849, and the next year moved his family to Quincy, Adams Co., Wis., via Milwaukee and Portage. Here he died, March 24, 1851. His mother also died at the same place July 17, 1872. Byron R. Tarbox was born in Edinburgh, Penobscot Co., Me., June 21, 1838. He and his brother, C. D. Tarbox, enlisted in Co. D, 4th Wis. V., May 17, 1861; was in the 19th Army Corps, department of the Gulf. Was at the siege of Port Hudson and at Baton Rouge, and many others. Mr. T. was married, March, 1869, to Miss Eliza Bullis. They have two children living, Mary E. and Robert Owen.

 

 


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