WI BIO - Dodge Co - RIX, J. L.

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 611

J. L. RIX, Sheriff of Dodge County, Juneau [Dodge County, Wisconsin], was 
born 12 July 1837 in Canada, son of John RIX, who was born in Vermont and 
came of old English stock. He [John RIX, the father] died about 1870, at the 
age of 59 years. He [John RIX] came with his family to Kenosha County, 
[Territory of] Wisconsin, in the spring of 1844, and in the spring of 1845, 
moved to Washington County, Wisconsin [Territory], and settled on 160 acres 
of Government land. He [John RIX, the father of the subject] was the father 
of seventeen children, of which six boys and six girls are now living. The 
old farm is still in possession of the boys. [The only children named are J. 
L. and John.]

Mr. J. L. RIX started out for himself at the age of 21. He and his brother, 
John RIX [also the father's name] built a mill, and carried on the milling 
business successfully some years, until the spring of 1872, when he [J. L. 
RIX] came to Dodge County, Wisconsin [had become a State 29 May 1848], and 
engaged in the responsible position of Superintendent of the North-Western 
Iron Company's works at Mayville [Williamstown Township, Dodge County], and 
was there until elected Sheriff in 1878, which office he entered in 1879.

In January 1863, he [J. L. RIX] married [Miss] Eliza E. MAXON, daughter of 
Ethan MAXON, who was from New York. The children [of J. L. and Eliza E. 
(MAXON) RIX] are (1) Frances; (2) Arthur, who died in infancy; (3) John; 
(4) George; (5) Ethan M., who died in infancy; (6) Mary P., and (7) 
Jennie. In 1871 Mr. [J. L.] RIX made a trip to Utah and Salt Lake. and was 
over most of that State, returning after being there six months.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly