Bio: Caffery, Thomas Francis (1881)

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Surnames: Caffery, Clark, Johnson, Kane

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin, Marathon County, Wis. (1881) page 557

Thomas Francis Caffery, foreman in J. H. Clark, Johnson & Co.'s saw-mill, Wausau, was born in Montrose, Pa., Sept. 3, 1844. He settled in Grand Rapids, September, 1867, and lived there a short time, then going to Pine River Mills; he worked there fourteen months, as mill-man; from there he went to Merrill, and worked at saw filing and mill-wrighting, etc., and remained three and one-half years; then he came to Wausau, and has since followed his trade and railroad bridging. He was married in Preston, Wayne Co., Penn., Oct. 20, 1868, to Margaret A. Kane; who was born in Ireland, in 1843. They have four children living - Mary B., Isabella, Richard F., and Thomas W. Caffery; Margaret R. is not living.