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Levi Dexter

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Levi Dexter

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
30 Jan 1897 (aged 87)
Columbia County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Cambria, Columbia County, Wisconsin, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.5261733, Longitude: -89.10342
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The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, An Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources (1880) transcribed by Mary Saggio.
LEVI DEXTER, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Cambria; was born in Massachusetts, town of Stone, May 22, 1809; son of John Dexter, who went to Vermont and died there when Levi was only 10 years old. He was married, Nov. 18, 1833, in Vermont, to Phebe Pratt, who died July 12, 1846, aged 30 years, leaving five children - Alman, lives in Grant Co., Wis.; Levi, in Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa; Joseph and Myron, are in Rockwell, Cerro Gordo, in the dry-goods business together; Freelove, the oldest child, is now the widow of Jonas Adams, and lives in Minnesota. Mr. Dexter came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1854, and June 8, 1856, was married in the town of Randolph to Susannah Miller, and has since lived on the farm he now occupies; had six children by the second marriage; five of them living - John, Lucy, Phebe, Henry and Annie. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter are Presbyterians and he is a Republican. His son Myron enlisted in the army during the rebellion and served about a year, toward the close of the war was in the 45th W. V. I., Co. B.

Contributor: Jami Hayes (48393977) • [email protected]
The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, An Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources (1880) transcribed by Mary Saggio.
LEVI DEXTER, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Cambria; was born in Massachusetts, town of Stone, May 22, 1809; son of John Dexter, who went to Vermont and died there when Levi was only 10 years old. He was married, Nov. 18, 1833, in Vermont, to Phebe Pratt, who died July 12, 1846, aged 30 years, leaving five children - Alman, lives in Grant Co., Wis.; Levi, in Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa; Joseph and Myron, are in Rockwell, Cerro Gordo, in the dry-goods business together; Freelove, the oldest child, is now the widow of Jonas Adams, and lives in Minnesota. Mr. Dexter came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1854, and June 8, 1856, was married in the town of Randolph to Susannah Miller, and has since lived on the farm he now occupies; had six children by the second marriage; five of them living - John, Lucy, Phebe, Henry and Annie. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter are Presbyterians and he is a Republican. His son Myron enlisted in the army during the rebellion and served about a year, toward the close of the war was in the 45th W. V. I., Co. B.

Contributor: Jami Hayes (48393977) • [email protected]


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