“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


A. R. EARL, farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Aztalan; born in Chester, Windsor 
Co., Vt., Jan. 17, 1819, his parents moved to St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.; in 
1823, he came to Wisconsin; in the fall of 1842, located on his present 
farm; engaged in improving his land, and working as millwright and 
carpenter and joiner; at different times purchasing land, until he had 
accumulated 600 acres.  He introduced into Wisconsin the Birdsell 
Combined Clover Huller and Thrasher; in 1862, began to build his 
present residence; completed it in 1866.  Married, in St. Lawrence Co., 
N.Y., Louisa Waterbury, of that county, who died Aug. 15, 1857, aged 
34 years.  Married a second time, at Marshall, Dane Co., Miss Rhoda B. 
Sheldon, of New Marlboro, Mass., who died June 2, 1872.  He married 
again in Jefferson Township, Jefferson Co., March 21, 1876, Miss 
Francis C. Barrett, of St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.; has three children by first 
wife – Sarah, born Dec. 5, 1843; Emma, Nov. 23, 1845; David G., Jan. 
14, 1853.  One child by third wife, Roy A., born April 26, 1877.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)

***UPDATE***
The following was received on 10/17/2000:

“I was pleasantly surprised to find my husband’s family listed on your 
biography site.  The Honorable A.R. Earl was his great-grandfather.  
You have listed as him having only one child by his last wife, Alexander 
Roy.  He also had a daughter by her, my mother-in-law’s namesake, 
Maude Charlotte Earl, born on May 31, 1881.”

Submitted by:  Kevin and Debi Huffman  (BNSFWidow@mmcable.com)