WI BIO - Winnebago Co - WOODWORTH, E. G.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1191

E. G. WOODWORTH, proprietor of flouring mills, erected in 1863, in Eureka, [a 
village on the Fox River and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, five 
miles from Waukau and about five miles from Rush Lake Junction, in Winnebago 
County, Wisconsin], was born 13 April 1823 in Painesville [Lake County], 
Ohio, where he lived until he was twenty years of age. He then went up the 
lakes, into Knox County, Illinois, and from there to Rock Island [Rock Island 
County], Illinois. He then returned to Ohio, and moved from there to 
Wisconsin in spring of 1846.

In 1846 Mr. WOODWORTH located at Lake Maria, Green Lake County [Wisconsin], 
where he lived until 1867, engaged in farming and mercantile business. He 
then moved to Davenport [Scott County], Iowa, farmed, and dealt in real 
estate, but soon returned to Berlin [Green Lake County], Wisconsin. There he 
engaged in milling in what is known as the Berlin City Mills; he owned and 
operated the same for ten years, until the fall of 1881, then sold out, and 
bought his present mills, which are steam. The capacity of the mills is 100 
barrels in twenty-four hours; they also do custom work; the mills contain 
three run of stone and three sets of rollers. 

In 1844 at Galesburg [Knox County], Illinois, he [E. G. WOODWORTH] was 
married to Miss Susan BURNER, who was born in Tennessee. They [E. G. and 
Susan (BURNER) WOODWORTH] have six children living, and two are dead: 
Josephine, now married; Leroy G.; Warren W.; Alice; Frank, deceased; Theresa, 
deceased; Monroe; and Theresa [second of that name]. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly