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


A. L. WHITCOMB,  firm of Whitcomb & Hudson, Lake Koshkonong 
Hotel; native of Canada; born in the Province of Quebec, Jan. 15, 1824; 
son of Joshua Whitcomb and Hannah Clement, who came to Wisconsin 
in 1825; settled in the town of Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio, in the 
spring of 1837; came to Green Co., Wis., and commenced farming; they 
had two sons and two daughters,  Mr. A. L. was the oldest of the family; 
in 1850, he went to California over the plains, May 17; left St. Joseph 
the last day of June, and arrived at the South Pass of the Rocky 
Mountains just as the sun was going down, and he thinks it was the most 
beautiful sight he ever saw.  He celebrated the Fourth of July on the 
Green River.  Landed at Salt Lake City July 21; arrived at Humboldt, 
Cal., Sept. 10; went to the Placerville Mines, from there to Cold Springs 
on Webber Creek, where he wintered; remained in California fifteen 
years; returned home in 1865, by steamer, via New York, to Albany, 
Dane Co., Wis., where he engaged in farming pursuits.  Mr. Hudson and 
himself have purchased seventy-three acres of land on the banks and 
bluffs of Lake Koshkonong, where they erected a very fine and 
comfortable hotel, for the accommodation of excursions, hunters and 
fishing parties.  This lake abounds in fish; duck, geese, snip, woodcock 
and meadow-birds are in great abundance.  This is one of the best 
localities for sport in the country.  Mr. Whitcomb married Miss Jane 
Briton, in California, in 1863; they had one child Joshua, born in 1864, 
died in 1865; buried in Amador Co., Cal.  Mrs. Whitcomb died in Ohio, 
in 1877; second marriage to Miss Jane Moore, daughter of George 
Moore, formerly of England; have one child - Willis, born the last 
Sunday in May, 1879.  Mr. Whitcomb is a member of the I.O.O.F. and 
of the Grange; liberal in religion and politics.


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