WI BIO - Winnebago Co - SARGEANT, Edward

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, v II, p 1186

Edward SARGEANT was born 08 December 1832 in Chester, Windsor County, 
Vermont. His parents were farmers. He received a common school and academic 
education at Chester, Vermont. He came to Wisconsin in December 1856, and 
taught school in Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, during the winter of 1856 
and 1857. [Lake Station, on Section 32 of Lake Township, was on the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway line, just north of the boundary between Lake 
and Oak Creek Townships, Milwaukee County. The author probably means Mr. 
SARGENT taught in Lake Township. The school closest to Lake Station on the 
Milwaukee County map in the 1878 Atlas of Wisconsin was at New Coeln, but he 
may have taught at a school closer to St. Francis or Bayview, both of which 
were also in Lake Township.] He spent the next summer in Faribault County, 
Minnesota, and then was home for three years. He was in Waukesha and 
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. In the spring of 1860 he returned to Chester, 
Vermont. In the spring of 1861 he returned to Waukesha [Waukesha County], 
Wisconsin, and was at home at Waukesha until June 1863.

On 17 June 1863 at Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, he [Edward SARGEANT] 
was married to [Miss] Martha A. AUSTIN, who was born 19 August 1838 in 
Rochester, Windsor County, Vermont, daughter of Samuel AUSTIN. She came to 
Lake, Wisconsin [Lake Township], with her parents in 1844, spent the next 
year in Chester [Windsor County], Vermont, returned in September 1864 to 
Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and was at home at Lake until the spring 
of 1866. The living children [of Edward and Martha A. (AUSTIN) SARGEANT] 
are: (1) Marian M., born 25 April 1864 in Chester [Windsor County], 
Vermont; (2) Jennie M., born 04 May 1874 at Omro [Winnebago County], 
Wisconsin; (3) Ernest E., born 20 November 1875 at Omro; and (4) Harvey O., 
born 06 July 1878, also at Omro.

[Edward SARGEANT's] occupations during the last ten years, 1856 to 1866, have 
been mostly teaching and farming. In the spring of 1866 he came to Omro 
[Winnebago County], Wisconsin, and was employed for a few years about the 
lumber and shingle mill of H. JOHNSON. The last ten years his occupation has 
been farming, and he was local agent to 1881. He has held the office of Town 
Assessor four years, Clerk of the School Board of the Village Omro for six 
years, member of the Village Board and representative of the Village of Omro 
on the [Winnebago] County Board.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly