Bio: Wage, F. C. (History - 1841)
Contact: Janet Schwarze
Surnames: WAGE PAYN
----Source: "The Biographical History of
Clark and Jackson Counties", Lewis Publishing Co., 1891, pages 134
and 135.
F. C. WAGE was born in Pennsylvania, April
16, 1841, son of J.D. and Susan Wage. He came to Wisconsin with his
father in 1850, and settled in the town of Grant, then Lynn. The
father bought 320 acres of land there, paying for it ten shillings
per acre. He was killed in Wisconsin in 1866, in a logging fallow,
by a stick which he was hauling catching in the ground and striking
him on the head, and he is buried in Grant Township. The subject of
our sketch lived with his parents until he was twenty-two years
old, when he began working on a farm at 20 a month, being thus
employed when the war broke out. At Black River Falls on December
30, 1863, he entered the service of his country, enlisting in
Company I, Fourteenth Wisconsin Regiment. He was in the Red River
expedition, participated in the action at White River, Arkansas, at
Nashville, Tennessee, and a number of other engagements. He was a
faithful soldier and was honorably discharged October 9, 1868,
after a two years' service. He then returned to Wisconsin, and was
engaged in logging about two years.
October 3, 1869, Mr. Wage was united in marriage with Ruth E. Payn,
born February 28, 1852, in New York came to Wisconsin in 1857 and
to Clark County in 1867. Soon after his return from the army Mr.
Wage bought eighty acres of land in Grant Township, Clark County,
living there until 1877, when he sold and bought in Pine Valley,
where he now lives, two and one-half miles south of Neillsville.
Mr. Wage is a Republican, and is one of Clark County's worthy
citizens.
WAGE
PAYN
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