Bio: McCrossen, James (1881) 
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Surnames: McCrossen, Jones

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 563

JAMES MCCROSSEN, merchant and lumberman, Wausau, was born in Carrolton, New Brunswick, Feb. 13, 1829; when he was fourteen years old, he went to Calais, Me., and was there until he came to Wisconsin in 1850, living in Oshkosh until 1852, when he removed to Rural, in the town of Dayton, Waupaca Co., where he was engaged in mercantile and flouring mill business until 1870, when he moved to Wausau, having commenced mercantile business here the previous year. He engaged in lumbering in 1877, and in the manufacture of lumber in 1880, purchasing a three-eighths interest in the Wausau Lumber Company, and is now president of the company. Mr. McCrossen was married at Rural, Waupaca Co., Wis., July 4, 1854, to Cornelia A. Jones, who was born in the town of Sherman, Chautauqua Co., N.Y. They have six children living – Julian Adelbert, Ellen, James M., Lizzie A., Charles A., and Henry G. Their daughter Kittie died Jan. 2, 1881, aged two years, five months and eight days.