DILLON, Franklin H.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 169

Frank H. DILLON, general merchandise, Mondovi [Naples Township, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin], was born 19 June 1856 [1857?] in New York 
[Pennsylvania?], and came here with his parents from New York in 1858, when 
one year old. [Assuming the year of his birth was 1857 and not 1856, then 
the family came to Naples between 01 January 1858 and 19 June 1859.] They 
located on a farm in the Town of Naples, and here he remained until 1872, 
when he began [from his DOB, at about age sixteen] to clerk in a general 
merchandise store in the Village of Mondovi, continuing at that for three 
years [until 1875?]. He then established a small grocery store, near where 
he now does business, and has kept increasing his stock until he does an 
annual business of $30,000.

On 24 June 1877 [at age twenty?] Frank H. DILLON was married to Miss Louisa 
SMITH. She was also from the same [New York] State [Franklin H. DILLON is 
enumerated in the 1880 census of Mondovi, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, p 198 C. 
He is twenty-two years of age, thus born about 1858 (bio states 1856), a dry 
goods merchant, born in Pennsylvania (not New York, as stated in the bio), 
his father born in Ireland and his mother in New York. Also in the household 
are his wife Sarah Louise, age twenty-three, born in Wisconsin (from her 
census age, about 1857) to a father born in New York and a mother born in 
Ohio; and a fourteen-year-old female servant, Mary DAVIDSON, born in 
Wisconsin to parents born in Norway.]

[Living in the household next door to Franklin H. DILLON is the family of 
Curtis T. DILLON: Curtis T., age twenty-six, a farmer, born in New York 
(about 1854) to a father born in Ireland and a mother born in New York; his 
wife Florence S., age twenty-two, born in Wisconsin to parents born in 
Connecticut and Ohio; and two sons, both born in Wisconsin: Benton, age 
three; and Thomas age four months. Is Curtis T. a brother of Franklin H. 
DILLON? Submitter is not researching these surnames. Bracketed material 
added to transcriptions to support or clarify information given in 
biographies and to raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly