WI BIO - Eau Claire Co - WILKINS, Edwin C.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 337

Edwin C. WILKINS, lumber and logs, Eau Claire [Eau Claire County, Wisconsin], 
was born in 1824 in Allegany County, New York, and was married there in 1845 
to Lorenda J. SHINGLER, who was born in Ulysses [Tompkins County], New York. 
The children [of Edwin C. and Lorenda J. (SHINGLER) WILKINS] are: (1) Mary 
Alice, now Mrs. J. B. STOCKING; and (2) Isabella S., now Mrs. S. CLEMMENS).

Edwin C. WILKINS came to Wisconsin in 1853 and located near Portage [Columbia 
County]. He engaged in farming there [Portage] for one year, and [farmed] in 
Adams County [Wisconsin] for two years. He came to Eau Claire in 1856, and 
engaged in rafting on the [Chippewa] river, and was a raft pilot for nine 
years. Since then he has been employed in the woods. He organized the first 
string band in Eau Claire.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly