Shepperd, Andrew & Aminda; Clark County, Wisconsin

Bio: Shepperd, Andrew & Aminda (Smith)
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----Source: Clark County History Buffs Researchers, 1880 Federal Census--Albion, Jackson Co., WI

Surnames: Butrick, Clark, Coburn, Elliott, Fisher, Foster, Gile, Hewett, Holway, Lloyd, Lockwood, Root, Rountree, Ross, Shepperd, Smith, Spaulding, Thompson, Valentine, Withee

Andrew & Aminda (Smith) Shepperd

Clark County, Wisconsin

The first government land entry in Clark County was made by Isaac S. Mason in Section 35, in the Town of Weston, on Sept. 1, 1848. From that time on for nearly fifty years the records of deeds in the Register of Deeds office were filled with the names as grantee of loggers in Clark County. Prominent among these names we find those of W. T. Price, Samuel F. Weston, Cyrus Woodman, C. C. Washburn, William W. Crosby, Moses Clark, Lincoln Clark, Wm. T. Foster, Andrew Shepperd, Robert Ross, N. B. Holway, Abner Gile, Amos Elliott, James Hathway, Levi Withee, Geo. L. Lloyd, Abner Coburn, Jacob Spaulding, James Hewett, Root & Thompson and many others.

Andrew Shepperd was a lumberman and a resident of Albion, Jackson County, Wisconsin. He was also a co-owner of many parcels of land in Clark County in a partnership with Justice of the Peace, John Valentine.

1880 Federal Census--Albion, Jackson Co., WI
Name	Relation	Marital Status	Sex	Race	Age	Nativity	Occupation	Father's Nativity	Mother's Nativity
Andrew Shepperd	Self	M	Male	W	61	CAN	Lumber Manufacturer	GER	ENG
Arminda (Amanda?) Shepperd	Wife	M	Female	W	60	AL	Keeping House	GA	TN
Andrew W. Shepperd	Son	S	Male	W	29	IA	Mill Laborer	CAN	AL
Wm. Henry Shepperd	GSon	S	Male	W	13	WI	At School	WI	CAN
Mary Preston	Other	S	Female	W	18	WI	Servant	CAN	SWI
Lydia A. Smith	GMother	W	Female	W	80	CAN		GER	ENG
Chas. Rumpel	Other	S	Male	W	21	PRU	Wks. In Sawmill	PRU	PRU
Nicholos Rumpel	Other	S	Male	W	18	PRU	Wks In Sawmill	PRU	PRU
Chas. Miller	Other	S	Male	W	28	PRU	Machinist	PRU	PRU
Henry Stearns	Other	S	Male	W	18	CAN	Wks. In Sawmill	CAN	CAN
J. W. Dean	Other		Male	W	22	CAN	Wks. In Sawmill	CAN	CAN
George LaDue	Other	S	Male	W	32	CAN	Wks In Saw Mill	CAN	CAN
Dell Smock	Other	S	Male	W	19	IL	Wks In Saw Mill	IL	IL
George Thompson	Other	S	Male	W	22	IL	Wks In Saw Mill	IL	IL
Wm. Linchen	Other	S	Male	W	22	CAN	Wks In Saw Mill	CAN	CAN
Jas. Mackey	Other	S	Male	W	25	CAN	Wks In Saw Mill	CAN	CAN
James Fallon	Other	S	Male	W	21	WI	Wks In Saw Mill	CAN	CAN
Burt Smock	Other	S	Male	W	19	IL	Wks In Saw Mill	IL	IL
John E. Kent	Other	S	Male	W	27	NY	Common Laborer	NY	NY

Original Land Entries

Beaver Township, Clark Co., WI

Transcribed from the 1918 History of Clark Co., Wisconsin by Janet Schwarze.

Township 27, Range I West (Beaver). Land in this town was first taken on Dec. 28, 1853, when Cyrus Woodman made a selection in Sections 7 and 30. Samuel P. Weston, May 2, 1854, in Sections 29, 30, 31 and 32. The next entries were in 1855, by Levi D. Brown, in Section 4. On April 5 Hiram S. Rountree took land in November 2, in Sections 6, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 17. September 11, Jacob M. Hackett, in Section 6. December 21, Charles W. Marshall located in Sections 7, 17, 19 and 20. June 28, Nathan H. Ambler secured land in Section 15. April 5, Burt Brett, in Section 16. On June 25, Elias K. Whitcomb secured land in Sections 19, 27, 28 and 30. John French, September 24, located land in Sections 19, 20 and 27; October I I 30, in Section 34. Andrew Shepperd and John Valentine located in Sections 21, 28, 32 and 33, September 24. September 13, James Hathaway made a selection in Section 29; October 31, in Sections 30, 32 and 33. June 8, William H. Lockwood, in Section 30. Charles Chase, June 5, in Section 30. June 5, Lucius G. Fisher located in Section 33. J. A. Butrick and Allen B. Butrick took land in Sections 34 and 35, on September 5. In 1873 the Wisconsin Central Railway selected land in Sections 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 25, 27 and 35. Survey was made in 1848.