Bio: Grant, N. G. (History - 1834)

Contact: Janet Schwarze.

Surnames: GRANT TYLER GIFFORD PRUST SCHUSTER OFFERDAHL

----Source: 1881 HISTORY OF NORTHERN WI, Chicago: The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor (grammar as is), Pg. 147

N. G. Grant, farmer dairyman Postmaster of East Wrightstown was born in 1834, in Jefferson Co., NY, where he was reared and educated. In 1856, he went to Kansas intending to settle in that State. Arriving in the midst of the well-known troubles there at that time, he took an active part, but after a sojourn of three months there he went back to New York. He remained but a short time, when he came with his mother to Wisconsin, and finally settled on his present place in 1857, the country then being rough and wild with a few narrow paths through the forest. He has held the various town offices at different times. He has also held office in the business enterprises of his town, besides the position of Postmaster, which he has held since 1866. He enlisted in the United States navy in 1864, serving on the United States steamer Pittsburg till the close of the war. In 1858, he was married to Miss Maria Tyler, a native of Ohio, by whom he had five children, all of whom were living (in 1881 when the "History of Northern Wisconsin" was written). In 1876, Mrs. Grant died and was buried in Greenleaf cemetery, Brown County. In 1877, he married Miss Susan Gifford, a native of Watertown, NY.

***The daughter of Nelson G. Grant, Mary, married Henry Prust and lived in Chili, Clark Co. His daughter, Mary (born Jan. 10, 1860 in East Wrightstown, WI), married (Nov. 28, 1878 in Kaukana, WI), Henry Prust (born Dec. 6, 1854 in Stettin, Prussia), and resided in Chili, Clark County, WI. Henry and Mary Grant Prust had two daughters: Grace May Prust b. May 22, 1883
Rose Victoria Prust b. Jan. 25, 1889 (information provided by Pam Schuster Offerdahl).