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


H. E. HUMPHREY, station agent M. & St. P.R.R., Ixonia Center; export 
agent, produce dealer and farmer; born Feb. 28, 1825, in 1825, in 
Carnarvonshire, Wales; came to America in 1842, and worked as a 
farmer in Oneida Co., N.Y., till 1848, when he came to Wisconsin and 
located in Ixonia Township, Jefferson Co., bought 140 acres of land in 
Sections 15, 21 and 22, built a log house, etc.; in 1859, he built his barns 
and a frame house; in 1860, he moved to Ixonia Center, built a produce 
warehouse and a dwelling-house, and that year was appointed station 
and express agent; he raises produce on the farm, and ships grain and 
stock to R. Eliot & Co., Milwaukee, with whom he has transacted 
business for nineteen years; he is also part owner of H. E. Humphrey & 
Co.'s Cheese Factory, erected this spring at the Center, and which will 
turn out 25,000 lbs. per annum, making as good cheese as knowledge 
and science can produce.  He was Postmaster from 1862 to 1870.  
Married Miss Mary Williams, of Oswego Co., N.Y., Oct. 9. 1849; they 
have brought up and adopted nine children, six boys and three girls, four 
of whom are still living with him.


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