Bio: Hiles, Samuel (1881)

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Surnames: Hiles, Searles, Seeley

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1216

SAMUEL HILES, lumberman, came to Dexterville in 1850; started the first mill above Necedah — sash, saw, water-power mill — Hiles & Searles. Searles soon went out of the firm. He was born in Oakland Co., Mich., Oct. 8, 1827. As early as 1847, in company with his brother, George, he lumbered in Sauk Co., Wis., on the Baraboo; then, in 1849, on Lemonweir, and soon after, came to Dexterville. He was married, Feb. 6, 1852, to Miss Harriet Seeley, of Elkhorn, Wis., formerly of Connecticut. Have three children living -George Franklin, Alia Adelia, Clara Antus. He has been Town Treasurer and Assessor of Dexter, also Deputy Sheriff of Wood County two years. He and his brother George together have about three sections of cranberry marsh.