AVERY, Walter C.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 162

W. [Walter] C. AVERY, blacksmith, Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 
17 January 1847 in England. [Mr. AVERY's parents were also born in England, 
according to the 1880 census of Alma (p 319 B), and his age, thirty-three, is 
consistent with the year of birth given in the biography.] He came to 
America in 1854 and settled in Lake County, Illinois. In 1888 he came to 
this county [Buffalo] and established a business at Mesha Mokwa [Misha Mokwa, 
in Nelson Township, just east of the Beef Slough. The Beef Slough was 
extensively used for logging until the mid to late 1890's.]

W. C. AVERY was first married to [Miss?] Margaret EVANS of Illinois. His 
second marriage was to Susanna LATSCHAN, a native of Canada. [She is 
enumerated as "Susan" in the 1880 Census of Alma, Buffalo County, 
twenty-seven years of age, born in Canada (about 1853 by her age), whose 
parents were both born in Pennsylvania.] They [Walter C. and Susan AVERY] 
have three children [approximate years of birth calculated from census ages 
and added]: (1) William, born about 1874; (2) Samaria, born about 1876; 
and (3) Victoria, born about 1879. [Submitter is not researching these 
surnames. The information included in brackets is added only to support the 
information given in the biography before submitting it to this website.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly