James H. Nolan

NOLAN, ELLIS

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/30/2010 at 07:00:52

Carpenter, P. O. Spencer

Was born in Detroit, Michigan, Dec. 25th, 1841, and lived in that city until about nine years of age, when his parents moved to Jackson county, Michigan, where he remained ten years and then went to Chicago, and from that place to Kansas City, and then to Lawrence county, Kansas, and finally, after considerable wandering, settled in Sharon, Wis. Here he stayed for about two years and then moved to Clear Lake. Subsequently he came to Spencer and then went to Dickinson, and from this last place returned to Spencer. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Co. I, 22nd Michigan, and served three years, and was one of the brave soldier boys that marched with Sherman to the sea. He was married in 1878 to Miss Alice E. Ellis. They have two children: Mabel M. and Lillie G. He is at present in partnership with H. J. Taber in carpentering business.

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