Bio: Silverthorn, George (1881) 
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Surnames: Silverthorn, Slothower, Alderson

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 567

GEORGE SILVERTHORN, Wausau, was born in Toronto Township, Canada, Feb. 13, 1832, and came to Wisconsin in October, 1843, living in Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., until the Spring of 1850, when he came to the Big Eau Claire, and was engaged in lumbering, except the time spent at school at Baraboo, and later at Lawrence University in the Winter of 1856 and 1857. In the Fall of 1858, he went to St. Louis and dealt In lumber for John Slothower, until the Spring of 1861, when he came to Wausau to remain permanently. He has been interested in the lumber business ever since he came here; he has dealt in real estate, looking after his own interests principally. In 1852 or 1853, he helped put in the dam. Mr. Silverthorn was married in Summerville, Canada, Jan. 6, 1874, to Mary A. Alderson, a native of Summerville. They have one child, Caroline Sarah.