Bio: Ward, Eben (1881)

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Surnames: Ward, Brunk

----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, Wis.) 1881, page 336

EBEN WARD, head filer, Valley Lumber Company, Eau Claire. Was born in Pembroke, Me., Oct. 13, 1836, and came to Wisconsin in the Spring of 1864, and located at Eau Claire. He was employed as setter, to Daniel Shaw Lumber Company's saw-mill, for two years, and was sawyer at Chippewa Falls, for one year. He returned to Eau Claire in 1868, and was then employed in various mills as sawyer; was with Ingram, Kennedy & Co., for five years, as filer and sawyer; was one year filer in Wheaton mill, Wheaton; was also, for six months, filer, in a mill in Maine. He returned to Eau Claire in 1877, and engaged in his present capacity. He has been a member of I. O. O. F., since 1872. He was married in Eau Claire, Sept. 2, 1870, to Sarah Brunk. They have four children — Mabel J., Eugene G., Rutherford B. and Homer E.

 

 


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