WI BIO - Lafayette Co - ROBERTSON, Lewis C.

History of La Fayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, 
p 797

Lewis C. ROBERTSON, farmer, owner of sixty acres in Section 28, Town of 
Wiota, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, P. O. Wiota, was born 24 February 1826 in 
Fentress County, Tennessee. He came to Wisconsin in 1836, settled in 
Lafayette County, and came to the Town of Wiota in 1845. [The land that 
became the State of Wisconsin on 29 May 1848, was formerly part of the 
Territory of Wisconsin, created 20 April 1836 from a portion of Michigan 
Territory. Lafayette County, created in 1836, was formerly part of Iowa 
County.]

In 1849 he [Lewis C. ROBERTSON] was married; his wife was born 01 May 1832 in 
Geauga County, Ohio. They [Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. ROBERTSON] have had one 
child: Amelia Caroline, now Mrs. BLUNT, who lives in the Town of Wiota. Mr. 
ROBERTSON has held the office of County Constable four years.

On 30 August 1864 Lewis C. ROBERTSON enlisted at Monticello, Lafayette 
County, Wisconsin, as a Sergeant in the Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
and was discharged 08 April 1865. In politics Mr. ROBERTSON is a Republican, 
and in religion, a believer.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly