Bio: Sanders, John (History - 1834)

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Surnames: SANDERS JONES VANRANSELAER BORMAN

----Source: 1891 History of Clark and Jackson Co., Wisconsin, pg. 188-189

JOHN SANDERS, of section 26, Hixon Township, Clark County, was born in Pittsford Township, Rutland County, Vermont, September 11, 1834, the son of Leonard (deceased) and Charlotte (Jones) Sanders, natives of Vermont the former was born in the year 1802, and the latter now lives at Black Creek, Wisconsin, at the age of seventy-nine years. The parents had seven children, four now living: Harriet, now Mrs. Dixon; John the subject of this sketch; Michael, and Charlotte, the wife of E. Welsh. One son, Ransom, died at the age of seventeen years, and George died in the Union army during the late war.

John Sanders came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1847, settling in Watertown Township, where they were surrounded by wild animals and Indians. In the fall of 1871 he came to this county and settled on his present farm, which then had but nine acres cleared, and a small log cabin. There was no turnpike north of Cawley Creek, and Mr. Sander paid a dollar a hundred to get his goods from Neillsville. He now owns 120 acres of land and his wife eighty, fifty-one of which is cleared.

He was married July 10, 1858, to Martha A. Mead, a daughter of Van Ranselaer Mead, deceased. (For further particulars of the Mead family, see the sketch of W. H. Mead) They have three children, two of whom are now living: John E. and Ransom L. One son died in infancy. John married Annie Borman, lives in Withee Township, this county, and has four children: Bernard, Etta, Ransom and an infant son. Ransom works in the pineries and at other occupations. Mr. Sanders has been a member of the Methodist Church since sixteen years of age. During the late war Mr. Sanders enlisted, but was rejected by the examining board. He is a Republican politically, but votes for the man instead of the party.

SANDERS JONES VANRANSELAER BORMAN