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


C. H. P. WILCOX,  farmer, Sec. 14;  P.O. Fort Atkinson; born in 
Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, Aug. 8, 1822, where he received a good, 
common-school education.  In 1839, came West and located on the 
Manitou Islands, where he stayed a couple of months; on the 17th of 
June, 1839, landed in Milwaukee, and engaged at farm labor till 1841; he 
moved to Sauk Co., on Sauk Prairie.  Married, in September, 1844, 
Charlotte Ward, a native of Oneida Co., N.Y.; she died July 18, 1875.  
Married again, October, 1877, in Niles, Mich., Mrs. C. Snider; 
purchased a farm of eighty acres in Delafield, and sold it in 1847, and 
purchased, in Sec. 11, 150 acres, which he worked till the spring of 
1852, when he sold his farm and went to California, remaining there 
until 1855; returned and bought 160 acres in his present place, raising 
the usual products of the county; was Treasurer of Town two terms; 
Supervisor five terms; Assessor, two terms.  Republican.


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