Bio: Fontaine, H. L. (1825 - 1865)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Fontaine, Milber

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1205

PAUL AND ALBERT FONTAINE, editors and proprietors of the Wood County Reporter, published at Grand Rapids, Wis., are sons of H. L. Fontaine, who was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, October, 1825, of French parents. In the Spring of 1850, he married Miss Ernestine Milber, of Gmund, Wurtemburg, Germany, and immediately started for the United States, landing in New York, May 24, 1850. They proceeded thence to St. Louis, remained there a few days, then settled in Highland, Ill., where they remained about two years, then came to Grand Rapids, Wis., in the Summer of 1852, where the family still reside. Six children were born to them — Ernest, Paul, Marie, Albert L. and Angelle. Full of patriotism for his adopted country, Mr. Fontaine enlisted in Co. G. of I2th Wis. V. I., and started for headquarters in February, 1864, where he continued in active service at the front, until the close of the war, but he was not permitted to return to his home, for he was taken sick in April, 1865, and on the 30th of the same month, died in hospital, at Newburn, North Carolina.