Bio: Viles, Chas. Milton (1881)
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Surnames: Viles, Cutts
----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, Wis.) 1881, page 336
CHAS. MILTON VILES, logger, Eau Claire, was born in Anson, Somerset Co., Maine, June 7, 1835. Parents and grandparents were Maine people. Learned the trade of millwright with his father and engaged in mill and dam building in Summer; lumbering in Winter. Came West in 1863 and located in Beloit, engaged in farming, and about 1865 moved to Oshkosh, working as millwright. Came to Eau Claire in 1870 and engaged in logging business, which he has followed since. Married in New Portland, Somerset Co., Maine, October, 1858, to Miss Mary E. Cutts; has had four children, of whom three survive - Jennie M., Frank, Wentworth. Is a member of the Temple of Honor.
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