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The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton
JACOB7 GORTON (Oliver6 John5 William4 John3 John2 Samuel1), born Jan. 21, 1807, married, Aug. 5, 1827, Lucinda Bowen Eddy, born May 13, 1810, at New Lisbon, N. Y., died April 6, 1890, at Washington, Eau Claire Co., Mich., daughter of Noblit and Phoebe (Nichols) Eddy. Jacob Gorton was educated at the Friends' Nine Partners School. He was a builder and operator of flour and lumber mills. He went from N. Y. State to Michigan in about the year 1838, returned to New Lisbon, N. Y., in 1841, thence to Clinton Co. and St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he built and ran a saw mill on the St. Regis river, thence to Neshota, Wis., in 1855, thence to Rock Falls, Wis., where he built the first flour mill in the valley of the Chippewan river, thence to Mondovi, Wis where he erected, owned and operated the first first flour mill there, thence to Eau Claire, Wis., where he resided until his death, Jan. 8, 1893. "Rest thou, weary form. Rise to thy glorious home, thou grand and noble spirit." (Obit. Eau Claire Free Press.)
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