WI BIO - Dane Co - LANSING, Albert E.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 585-586

Albert E. LANSING, a prominent farmer and resident of Blooming Grove 
Township, Dane County, WI, was born in Vienna, Wayne County, NY, 31 Aug 1840. 
His father, Robert W. LANSING, was one of the early settlers of Dane County, 
WI. The grandfather [p 586] of our subject was Garrett Robert LANSING, a 
farmer by occupation, who spent his last days in the Mohawk valley [NY]. 
Robert W. LANSING was reared in his native State. His opportunities for 
securing an education were very limited, but he was very studious and 
acquired a good amount of schooling, and was admitted to the bar. Robert W. 
LANSING was afterward appointed Receiver at the Government land office at 
Mineral Point, WI, and emigrated thither, accompanied by his wife and eight 
children. They came by the lakes from Buffalo [NY] to Milwaukee, WI, and 
thence by stage to Mineral Point. He remained there two or three years, then 
removed to Madison, Dane County, WI, making the journey with teams. At that 
time Madison was only a small village and the surrounding country was very 
sparsely settled. Mr. LANSING, Sr., [Robert W.] opened and operated an hotel 
here and also practiced law. After he had been here two or three years, he 
purchased a tract of land in Blooming Grove Township, making that his home, 
although he continued the practice of law until his death, in 1885, at the 
advanced age of eighty-five. The maiden name of the mother of our subject 
was Elizabeth HARDY, born in NY, daughter of William HARDY, a farmer, who 
spent his last years in the State of NY. The mother of our subject died 11 
Mar 1873, aged seventy-four. She reared eight children.

Albert E. LANSING remembers very well the incidents of the journey to WI and 
the pioneer life here. He received his early education in the city schools 
of Madison, Dane County, WI, after which he attended the schools of Newark 
[Wayne County], NY. After his return from NY he settled in Blooming Grove 
Township [Dane County, WI], and engaged in farming, remaining until 1883, 
when he entered the service of the Government as clerk in the Depot 
Quartermaster's Department, being stationed at Natchez and Vicksburg for 
about two years. He then went to MO and engaged in steamboating on the Osage 
and Missouri Rivers for about two years, then returned to Blooming Grove 
Township and resumed farming. He is now the owner of a well improved farm on 
section 17.

On 14 Apr 1874, Albert E. LANSING married Mary E. BRINK, born in Mount Vernon 
[Dane County], WI, daughter of Byron and Laura (MALONE) BRINK. Albert E. and 
Mary E. (BRINK) LANSING have three children living: Maud E., Susie A., and 
Laroy E. Albert E., their third child, died in infancy. Mr. LANSING is a 
Democrat in politics, like his father before him, and is firm in his adherence 
to his party. His parents were members of the Episcopal Church, in which 
faith our subject was reared. Mr. LANSING is a man who enjoys the respect of 
a large circle of friends he has gathered about him by his own pleasant and 
obliging manner and honest integrity of character.

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