VICTOR FAYANT, of the firm of Fayant & Happler, Muscoda; carrying on butchering business; was born at Tallahassee, Fla., in 1840. He is a son of Bartholomew and Elizabeth Becker, who were natives of France; when 2 years old, he moved with his parents to New York, and afterward to Schuyler Co., Penn. During the winter of 1857 and 1858, they came to Muscoda. He was married in 1865, to Miss Eleanor Sterling; they have six children.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.