Identifier: wisconsinitsstor05ushe (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin, its story and biography, 1848-1913
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Usher, Ellis Baker, 1852-1931
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ing factors in the business affairs ofthe Chippewa Valley. Death came to him at his country residenceon Truax Prairie, near Eau Claire, on March 18, 1909. A brief out-line of his career is consistently a part of Wisconsin history, and nocitizen of Eau Claire more justly deserves such a permanent memorial. Of eastern birth and family, Peter Truax was born in Steubencounty, New York, February 24, 1828, so that he was eighty-oneyears of age when called by death. During his boyhood his parentsmoved to Allegany county, New York, and it was in the schools ofNew York State that Peter Truax received all the book educationwhich was granted him, and which was limited in accordance withthe facilities of all public education in his time. In 1853 the familycame west to Wisconsin, settling in Walworth county. The fatherof Peter Truax died in Eau Claire when more than one hundredyears of age. Peter Truax had four brothers, all now deceased,namely: John Truax, of Menominee; Nathan, also of Menominee;
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