Bio: Follett, G. I. (1881) 
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Surnames: Follett, Wilson

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 574

G. I. FOLLETT, lawyer, Spencer, was born in Otsego Co., N. Y. They moved to Upper Canada, where his father was engaged in the distillery business. He went to Seneca Falls, N. Y., in '60, but returned to Canada and stayed till '62. He then went to Illinois, and engaged in teaching. In '63 he clerked in a mill store in Kansas; he then returned to Ohio, where he attended Mt. Union College. He enlisted in the Va. Vol. I., 3d Brig., 2d Corps. On being mustered out, went to New York, and studied for the ministry in Ames University. He then taught school in Missouri, but, returning to the East, attended medical school in Cleveland. He afterward went to Wisconsin, and located at Neillsville, where he studied law and taught school, his wife teaching with him. He then came to Spencer and opened law office and Brighton Blackstone House, in 1878. In 1868, he married Miss Eliza Wilson, of Ohio. They have two children, Pearl and Allie; have lost one, Forest. Mr. Follett has been Deputy Sheriff and Town Clerk. His wife is a Presbyterian.