Bio: Whittemore, Robert D.
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 220.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ROBERT D. WHITTEMORE

ROBERT D. WHITTEMORE, harness, saddlery, etc., Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1866; located in Crawford County, and in 1867 went to Randolph and other places; opened business in Sharon in 186S, which he continued six months; was at Palmyra for one year, and came to Chippewa Falls in July, 1872; employed by Union Lumber Co. for eighteen months; purchased there harness shop, and has been in present business since. In 1862 was news-boy in 107th N, Y. Inf. for nine months; was then in quartermaster's office as transportation clerk, at Hagerstown, for eighteen months; then in South Carolina for four months. Was born in Union, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1846; and in 1865 was in business there for a short time, and afterwards traveled. Married at Palmyra. Wis , Sept. 21, 1871, to Lottie F., daughter of Captain A. S. Porter, who was born at Palmyra. They have one child, Frederick E., born April 1, 1877.

 

 


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