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


E. B. FARGO,  merchant, Lake Mills; born in New London, Conn., Feb. 
18, 1822; came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1845, located at Lake Mills 
and engaged in mercantile business; in 1848, purchased of Millard & 
Pickard the original site of the village, including the mills; gave his 
attention to conducting mills and farming; he with his brother, Lyman 
Fargo, Miles Millard and Ambrose Foster built, in 1847, the first 
foundry west of Milwaukee, Mr. Fargo owning at one time two-thirds of 
it; in 1862, sold his interest in foundry and built his present store and 
resumed mercantile business; has also a farm of 290 acres.  Married, in 
Genesee Co., N.Y., Nov. 22, 1844, Marilla Churchill, of New York, 
daughter of Gen. Churchill; they have six children.


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