“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1879. PAUL W. CARTWRIGHT, farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Rome; born in 1844, in Sullivan, Jefferson Co., Wis.; is a son of David Cartwright, and is the first white man born in the town who is now a resident; he enlisted in the 1st W.V.C. in 1862, and was in the battles of Cape Girardeau and Chickamauga, also in the famous raid to Helena, Ark.; he served with the Armies of the Tennessee and Cumberland until his discharge, in 1865, having served over a year in the Post Band, at Louisville, Ky.; he re-enlisted, March 12, 1865, in Hancock's Corps, and was stationed one year about Washington, D.C.; was in charge as Corporal of the Guard on the Government farm four months; he resided four years in Iowa as a farmer; at the close of his military service, removed to Michigan, where he followed his father's footsteps as a hunter and trapper; on his return to Wisconsin, he built the mill known as Cartwright's Mill at Auburn, Chippewa Co., where he also owned a saw-mill, planer and store; here he was in business four years; he bought the old Cartwright homestead of eighty acres in February, 1879; owns twenty-seven acres in Palmyra and 131 in Dunn Co., Wis. He married Ellen Ackley, of Rome, Wis., Feb. 16, 1865; they have four children - Carrie, Ida, David and Marietta. Mr. C. is a Republican, and has been Justice of the Peace in the towns of Cheteck, Barron Co., and Auburn, Chippewa Co.; he is liberal in his religious views. Submitted by: Linda Pingel (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)