WI BIO - Dodge Co - RUSHLOW, Louis

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, pp 
685-686

Louis RUSHLOW, farmer, Sections 12 and 13, Calamus Township, P. O. Beaver Dam 
[Dodge County, Wisconsin], was born in 1827 in Clinton County, New York, a 
son of John B. RUSHLOW and Josephina MARTELL [her maiden name?], who were 
born in the district of Three Rivers, Lower Canada, but in 1814 were 
immigrants to Clinton County, New York. In 1832 he [Louis RUSHLOW] with his 
parents removed to the town of Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont, where they 
both died, John B. RUSHLOW in 1853 and Josephina RUSHLOW in 1871.

When eleven years old [1838 or 1839] Louis RUSHLOW went to live with Mr. V. 
S. FERRIS, proprietor of a large flouring mill, at Swanton [Franklin County, 
Vermont]. He attended school for the first two winters, his teachers being 
the poet John G. SAXE and his brother; [p 686] when not in school, he was 
learning the miller's trade. Next he was a cook on board a steamer on Lake 
Champlain, and by 1846 he became quite a sailor, as well as cook and miller. Louis RUSHLOW was then employed 
by Mr. CATLIN, proprietor of the Catlin 
Mills, of Burlington [Chittenden County], Vermont, and also of a line of 
steamers on Lake Champlain. The first three years of his [Louis RUSHLOW's] 
stay at Burlington were in the mill, but the last six summers [thus he was in 
Burlington for about eight or nine years] he was Captain of a steamer on the 
lake for Mr. CATLIN, but spending the winters in the mill.

In May 1855 S. P. K. LEWIS, of Beaver Dam [Dodge County], Wisconsin, came to 
Burlington [Vermont] and employed Mr. RUSHLOW to come to Wisconsin and take 
the position of miller in the mill at Beaver Dam, in whose employ Louis 
RUSHLOW remained fourteen years. In 1869 he [Louis RUSHLOW], with three 
partners, bought the Beaver Dam mill of E. R. HOYT, but he [Louis] soon sold 
his interest, and was employed as miller in the same mill until February 
1873. He then went to Tomah [Monroe County], Wisconsin, and was employed as 
foreman in the mill of which Freeman & Runkle were proprietors. In November 
1874 he returned to Beaver Dam [Dodge County], and was miller for S. P. K. 
Lewis & Sons until 1878. In 1877 Louis RUSHLOW bought a farm of twelve acres 
in Sections 12 and 13, town of Calamus, where he has devoted his attention to 
farming since he quit the mill.

On 27 October 1849 at Burlington [Chittenden County], Vermont, he [Louis 
RUSHLOW] married Miss Aurelia [LAPEIRE], daughter of Basil and Margaret 
LAPEIRE, of Verchere, Lower Canada [now Verchere Township, located in the 
Montérégie region in the Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada]. They 
[Louis and Aurelia (LAPEIER) RUSHLOW] have had nine children: (1) Louis R., 
of Mitchell [Mitchell County], Iowa; (2) Juliette, now Mrs. F. F. WILLIAMS, 
also of Mitchell, Iowa; (3) George W.; (4) Rhoda, now Mrs. William E. 
LABARON, also of Mitchell, Iowa; (5) Fred S.; (6) Francis, deceased; (7) 
Francis E.; (8) Eugene, deceased; and (9) Lester J. Mrs. [Aurelia] RUSHLOW 
is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Beaver Dam [current address: 
131 W. Maple Ave].

Submitted by Cathy Kubly