History of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of its towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens.

              HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY.
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H. A. Curry, who resides on section 21, was born in Morgan Co., Ohio, in 1845. His father, William Curry, was born in Virginia in 1808, and settled in Ohio about 1831, and there died in 1878. His wife still survives, and resides with her son William, in Ohio, at the advanced age of seventy-one years. In 1870 Mr. Curry removed to Vernon Co., Wis., and purchased 360 acres'of land in the town of Liberty, of M. Longstroth. He has reduced the size of his farm to 190 acres. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1878, and served one term, Mr. Curry wbs married in Clinton Co., Ohio, in 1868, to Elizabeth Starbuck. They have three children—Edgar, Charles and Guy. Mrs. Cur¬ ry's father, Jonathan Starbuck, was born in Clinton Co., Ohio, in 1825, and died in Virginia at the age of thirty-two years. Her mother was born in 1827 and died in Ohio at the age of  forty-seven years.
Mons. S. Wilkinson was born in 1848 in Nor¬ way, and emigrated to America in 1858. He first settled in Crawford Co., Wis., and in 1874 he came to  the  town of  Liberty.    He married
Anna Lee, who was also born in Norway, in 1848. She came to the United States in 1868. They have had born to them two children— Wilbert C. and Bertha J. Mr. Wilkinson does not own any real estate in the county at present, having just sold his farm, which con¬ sisted of eighty acres on section 18, where he still resides. Mr. Wilkinson contemplates pur¬ chasing another farm on the same section.
Elizabeth Wigdahi was born in Norway in 1818, and came to the United States in 1864. She settled in the town of Christiana, where she lived until 1878, when she removed to the town of Liberty, and bought of John Erikson 160 acres of land on section 19, where she now resides. Mrs. Wigdahi was married in Norway, in 1844, to Peter Wigdahi, who died in Vernon county on the 27th day of July, 1880. Mrs. Wigdahi has five living children—Mary, Betsey, Emma, Anna and Sarah. Hans is deceased. Mary is the wife of Hans Vomburg; Betsey married Nels Swigan; Sarah joined fortunes with Robert Robertson, and Anna is now a widow with three children.