Bio: Cone, Sterling

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----Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 1032.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STERLING D. CONE.

STERLING D. CONE, manufacturer of lumber, Westboro, was born in Dodge Co., Wis., Aug. 4, 1848; in 1874, was engaged in” clerking and then in a hotel with his father, after which he learned telegraphing and went into the employ of the Central Company, at Steven's Point; in 1874, he took the station of Westboro. being one of the first settlers of the village; August, 1878, I went into the mercantile business, and afterward built this mill, having a capacity of 30,000 feet of lumber and 35,000 of shingles. In 1870, he married Miss Mattie Morrison, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. They have had six children—Wm. D., deceased; Harrie; twin babes, deceased; Winifred and the baby, not named. Mr. Cone has been Town Treasurer for two years, and Town Clerk since the town formed in 1876.