C B Sylvester

SYLVESTER, CHYNOWETH

Posted By: County Coordiantor
Date: 11/19/2006 at 14:37:09

C B Sylvester, agent American Express Company and insurance agent, Ogden, was born in Franklin county, Maine, in 1832, and when twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Iowa county, Wisconsin, where he lived till he reached his majority, he had all the advantages of the common schools, supplemented with an academic education under the tuition of Hon J L Pickard, of Plattville, Wisconsin, graduation in class 1859, he traveled more or less throughout Minnesota, Colorado, Kansas and Wisconsin, and engaged in teaching, surveying, etc, until 1870, when he came to his present location, and has since made it his home, he was married December 8, 1869, to Miss Lizzie Chynoweth, a native of England, who was educated at Rockford, Illinois, graduating in the class of 1868, they have one daughter: Edna, such is the brief outline and history of one whose career has been marked by enterprise, energy, pure motives and honest effort, he has made himself what he is, a worthy type of independent manhood

1880 Boone Co History book