Bio: Whelen, T. C.

Contact: Janet Schwarze.

----Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, page 1030.

Biographical Sketch of T. C. Whelen.

T. C. WHELEN; born in New York State; when a young man came to Oshkosh and afterward to Fort Howard, and from there to Medford in the spring of 1874. and went into the firm that was building the mill and was interested in it until his death, which was Sept. 27, 1876, at the age of thirty-one years. He had, six years before, married Lizzie, a daughter of David Mc- Cartney, whom he left with a daughter. Mr. Whelen was as enterprising man and did everything in his power to build up the place, and had valuable plans for its improvement at the time of his death was a great loss to Medford.