Bio: Damon, J. S. (1881)
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Surnames: Damon, McLoughlin, Clark

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 573

J. S. DAMON, farmer and lumberer, Spencer, was born in town of Shallott, Washington Co., Me., April 21, 1827. He lived in the State till 1863, when he came to Adams County, bought a farm, and went to lumbering and farming. He began with $3, and came to Spencer, in 1874, with $1,400, with which he bought three village lots and a farm of forty acres. J. S. Damon & Sons are lumbering, having harvested in the Winter of 1880-l, 1,200,000 logs. He married the first time, in 1850. His wife died, leaving one child, Paulina S., now Mrs. McLoughlin. He married again, in 1853, Miss S. S. Clark, of Maine. They have have children — Fred F., Gustus A., Florence A., Jabas P., and Maudie S. Mr. Damon has been Constable in Adams County. He enlisted in 1862 in 28th Me. Vols., Co. C; mustered out in 1863. He is a Mason, a member of the Temple of Honor and the Free Will Baptist Church.