Bio: Quaw, Samuel M. (1881)
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Surnames: Quaw, Woock, Mauson

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 566

SAMUEL M. QUAW, lumberman, Wausau, was born in West Almond, Allegany Co., N. Y., March 1, 1839. He employs about sixty men in the logging season, and ten men during the Summer. He settled in Friendship, Adams Co., in 1857, and lived there ten years. He enlisted September, 1861, in Company H, 11th Reg. Wis. V. I., and served three years and three months, and was mustered out at Madison, Jan. 9, 1865. He then returned to Friendship and began farming. In March, 1867, he moved to Strong's Prairie in same county, and built a grist mill in company with a Mr. Woock, where he remained two years. He then sold his interest and went to Sioux City, Iowa, and began farming and stock raising, which he continued until the Fall of 1872. After various other business ventures he came to Wausau. Was married October, 1874, at Wausau to Susie H. Mauson, who was born in Jackson, N. H., in June, 1846.