Bio: Wilding, George Jr. (History - 1841)

Contact: Janet Schwarze

Surnames: WILDING THOMAS ROHORST

----Source: 1891 History of Clark and Jackson County, by Franklyn, Curtiss-Wedge, pg. 371:

GEORGE WILDING, JR., of Grant Township, Clark County, was born in England, November 17, 1841, and was brought to this country by his parents when he was only four years old a few years afterward they located in Clark County in 1867. Young Wilding was not eighteen years old when the great civil war broke out, and he joined Company I, First Wisconsin Calvary Volunteers, as a private, and participated in the battles of Cape Girardeau (Missouri), Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Murfreesboro, under General Sherman, Chickamauga, Buzzard's Roost, Atlanta, Nashville, under General Thomas, helped to chase General Lyons out of Kentucky, and his regiment was probably the best that Wisconsin ever sent out. On account of an injury received in service he is drawing now a small pension. He was honorably discharged in 1865, after a service of three years and six months.

This year he married Mary Rehorst, and they had three children, all of whom are living. He purchased forty acres of land three miles east of Neillsville, which he cleared and improved and on which he made his home. In 1872 his wife died, and he was subsequently married in Clark County to Maria Hitchcock, whose death followed fifteen years afterward. For his third wife Mr. Wilding wedded Minnie West, of Grant Township, and by this marriage there is one daughter, the pride of the family.

Mr. Wilding is one of the prosperous farmers of Grant Township. His farm is located on Section 21, where he is giving special attention to stock-raising, in which he has been successful of late. He has also had a large experience in the lumber business. All that he possesses in the result of his own honest toil and good management. Politically he is a Republican.

WILDING THOMAS ROHORST