WI BIO - Juneau Co - WILCOX, John

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 388

John WILCOX, car repairer, Elroy [Juneau County, Wisconsin], was born in 
England in 1849. He emigrated to the United States in 1863, and came direct 
to Wisconsin, settling first at LaValle, Sauk County, where he was engaged in 
farming for about eight years, at the end of which time he came to Elroy 
[Juneau County], and has since been engaged in repairing cars on the West 
Wisconsin Division [the West Wisconsin Railroad prior to 1880] of the 
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway [began in 1880; controlled by 
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway two years later]. 

On 01 February 1874, he [John WILCOX] was married to Miss M. E. SPRAGUE, a 
native of New York State, born in 1855. They [John and M. E. (SPRAGUE) 
WILCOX] have one child, Ida, born 10 January 1876. Mr. WILCOX is a Liberal 
in politics, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen. [Mr. WILCOX may have belonged to an 
organization such as the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen. There would not be 
any railroad employee records for Mr. WILCOX, however, as they were not kept 
that early. Most employee railroad records are for 1936 and afterward, and 
Mr. WILCOX, if he was living, would have been over eighty years of age in 
1936.] 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly