Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . is a Royal ArchMason and Knight Templar, and has beentreasurer of the chapter for many political support is always given themen antl measures of the Republican party,and as alderman of the city he has renderedhis fellow citizens efificient and faithful serv-ice, giving his support to every measurewhich he believed calculated to prove of pub-lic benefit. As a business man and citizen heis therefore highly esteemed. EDMOND MAXFIELD. Edmond Maxfield, a retired farmer ofOtsego, Columbia
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . is a Royal ArchMason and Knight Templar, and has beentreasurer of the chapter for many political support is always given themen antl measures of the Republican party,and as alderman of the city he has renderedhis fellow citizens efificient and faithful serv-ice, giving his support to every measurewhich he believed calculated to prove of pub-lic benefit. As a business man and citizen heis therefore highly esteemed. EDMOND MAXFIELD. Edmond Maxfield, a retired farmer ofOtsego, Columbia county, and a man whohas conducted himself with remarkablecredit throughout the varied experiences ofa long and active life, was born June 6,1843, in Somerset, Cayuga county. NewSork, and is a son of Joseph and Phebe(Haight) Maxfield, both natives of the stateof Massachusetts. The family came to Wis-consin in 1846, and purchased a farm inthe town of Hampden, Columbia Maxfield died in 1852, and her be-reaved husband sold his farm, disposed ofhis household effects, and went back to the. EDMOND MAXFIELD. COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 543 east. After tliree years in that part of theUnion he again married, Mrs. Sarah Holtbecoming his wife, and once more he set hisface toward the west. He, on his arrivalhere, bought a farm in Hampden, which heheld for two or three years, and then ex-changed it for a farm in the town of he made his home until the death of hiswife in 1867. He died in January, 1886,when over eighty-three. He was the fatherof nine children, among whom were: David,who trailed it to California in 1852, anddied there twelve years later; Benjamin,who died in youth; Joseph, who grew toyoung manhood, enlisted as a Union soldier,and was killed on the second day of the battleof the Wilderness; Edmond, the subject ofthis article; and Mary, who died in ancestry of our subject is of the verybest character. Both families were wellestablished and unifor
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