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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 118
ELIJAH TROLLOPE, an energetic and progressive business man of Cassville, Grant county, who is now successfully engaged in the grocery trade, was born in Vermont Jan. 6, 1845. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (DEWING) TROLLOPE, were natives of England, and on their emigration to the New World first located in Canada, where they made their home for six years before their removal to Vermont. In 1854 they came to Little Grant, Wis., and the father is still a resident of Little Grant, Grant county; the mother died in 1894.
Elijah TROLLOPE passed his early life principally in Grant county, and in its public schools he received his literary education. On starting out in life for himself he followed farming in Lancaster township for some time, but is now engaged in the grocery business in Cassville. On Jan. 21, 1895, he was married at Beetown to Mrs. Flora A. HENDRICKS.
Responding to the President's call for more volunteers during the Civil war, Mr. TROLLOPE enlisted at Lancaster Jan. 4, 1864, in Company I, 20th Wis. V.I., and remained in the service for some time after hostilities ceased. He took part in the capture of Fort Morgan and Spanish Fort, was later transferred to Company G, 35th Wis. V.I., and was honorably discharged at Brownsville, Texas, March 11, 1866, after which he returned to Boscobel, Grant county. He is now one of the leading members of Joseph Mueller Post, No. 218, G.A.R., of Cassville, in which he is filling the office of adjutant.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck