W. C. Eastwood

EASTWOOD, DAYTON, KELSEY, CARY, WESENFELDER, HURD

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 19:47:56

The same year – 1872 – W. C. Eastwood opened his boot and shoe store and shop, in which he now does an annual business of $15,000. He was born at Brockville, Canada West, March 30, 1817. He is the son of Amos and Sarah Eastwood, of Connecticut. At the age of fifteen he removed to St. Lawrence county, New York.
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At the age of twenty he married Mahala Dayton, of Rossie, St. Lawrence county, New York. He was engaged in the hotel business until 1840, when he moved to Brockville, Canada West. He remained in Canada until June 10, 1849, when he removed to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. On the 7th of April, 1859, his wife died. They had seven children, five of whom are still living – Mary J., wife of J. B. Kelsey, of Shell Rock, Iowa; Charlotte, wife of W. P. Cary, of Sheboygan falls, Wisconsin; Harriet A., wife of Frank Wesenfelder, of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin; Edgar O., resides at Chicago, Illinois, and Elvoretta, who resides at home. In 1875 Mr. Eastwood married a Mrs. Hurd, of Shell Rock, Iowa.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 716