Bio: De Long, C. C. (1860 - 19??)

Contact: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: De Long, Shurtliff, Roberts, Pratt, Wagner

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

De Long, C. C. (18 November 1860 - 19??)

C. C. De Long, general merchant at Edgar, Wis., where he is also identified with the other leading business enterprises, was born in Fond du Lac County, Wis., November 18, 1860, and is a son of Charles and Caroline (Shurtliff) De Long. The parents of Mr. De Long were born, reared and married in the state of New York and from there came to Wisconsin. They had four sons and one daughter, C. C. being the only member of the family now living in Marathon County. The mother died at Edgar when aged seventy-three years and the father when aged seventy-four years.

C. C. De Long was reared and attended school in Monroe County, Wis. His first business responsibility was as agent for the Lake Shore Railroad for two years, then was transferred to Pelican Lake and from there to Crandon in Forest County, where he served for eight years as county clerk, elected on the Democratic ticket. He then embarked in a general store business at Pelican Lake in partnership with S. B. Roberts, which was conducted for three years under the firm name of C. C. De Long & Company. Mr. De Long then came to Edgar with Mr. Roberts and the business was continued under the former name until the death of Mr. Roberts and Mr. De Long still retains it as it is so firmly established in public regard. He deals in groceries, dry goods, shoes, grain, wood and hay. While living at Pelican he was postmaster, and when the village of Edgar was organized was its first president, has been one of the trustees ever since and for eight years has been school treasurer. He has an interest in a cranberry marsh, is a stockholder in the Edgar Telephone Company and also in the Edgar, Cassel & Emmett Telephone Company, and since the reorganization of the Edgar Bank of Edgar has been a charter member, a stockholder and a director.

Mr. De Long married Miss Cora B. Pratt, who was born in Monroe County, Wis., a daughter of Mrs. Annie Pratt, and they have three children: Edna, who is, assistant to Postmaster Wagner, at Edgar; C. H., who is a clerk in his father's store; and Fayette, who still goes to school. Mr. De Long is a Thirty-second degree Mason.

Responses

I have a plate from 1911 that my mother had handed down from her grandma. It has the 1911 calendar around the edges and cupids also.



It says "compliments of CC Delong & Co. Edgar, Wis." on the front. I am wondering the history of this. Paul Tushinski, ptushinski@new.rr.com