LAUREN L. THURBER, station agent for C., M. & St. P. R. R., Muscoda; has been employed fourteen years in the same capacity by the same road; he was born in Door Village, Ind., Jan. 17, 1841, where he was educated and learned the trade of mason; he is a son of Nathaniel and Sarah Leland Thurber, who were natives of Vermont; they came to this State in 1857 and settled upon a farm in the town of Pulaski, Iowa Co. The subject of this sketch came two years later, and joined his parents on the farm. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, 20th W. V. I.; was with the regiment during its term of service, participating in all the engagements, and mustered out with them at Madison in August, 1863. May 6, 1866, he married Miss Anna Soper, by whom he has three children, all boys.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.