Bio: Paup, James O. (1881)
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Surnames: Paup, Bean, Kronenwetter, Dessert

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 570

JAMES O. PAUP, of the firm of Paup & Bachman, merchants, Mosinee, was born in Washington Township, Clarion Co., Pa., Jan. 26, 1846. He lived there with his parents until 1871. He then went to Jackson Co., Minn., and remained two years, taking up a soldier's homestead, which he subsequently sold. He came to Mosinee and worked for Mr. Kronenwetter about two years. He then worked for Mr. J. Dessert on a farm, where he was engaged four years. Then he began in his present business in June, 1880. He enlisted at Fryburg, Pa., July 25, 1862, in Co. G. 155th Regt. V. I, and served until the close of the war, and was mustered out at Braddock's Fields, near Pittsburgh. Pa., June, 1865. He was married, March 28, 1875, at Mosinee, to Mary E. Bean, who was born in Mosinee, June 2, 1861. They have two children, George E. and Homer W.