David G. Seaton From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 943.

TOWN OF POTOSI

DAVID G. SEATON, retired, Potosi; born in Oneida Co., N. Y., April 10, 1826; son of James and Agnes (nee Wilson) Seaton, natives of Ayrshire, Scotland; came to this county 1859; settled at Boscobel, merchandising ten years; then came to Potosi and started a drug store, and six years ago retired from business, and lives on his income; was two years Supervisor at Boscobel, and for last two years has been confined to his room. On Oct. 16, 1863, was married at Boscobel, by Rev. Mr. Bird, to Martha Jane, daughter of John and Nellie Beam, formerly of Indiana; had a daughter - Nellie Agnes, now 17 years of age, attending Union School at Jackson, Mich. His second marriage took place at Boscobel in April, 1867, by Rev. Mr. Morehouse, to Emma, daughter of Andrew and Isabel Anderson; had seven children, four of them living - Alva Dena, Bertha Alleta, James Ambrose and Matie Livinia. Mrs. Seaton was born March 16, 1842, at Bergen, Norway, and came here in 1851.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.