C. A. HALLETT, assessor of Florence, Florence county, was born April 10, 1852, in Hartland, New Brunswick; and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Smith) Hallett, who were also born in New Brunswick, and were of English ancestry.

Joseph Hallett was a pilot on the St. John river, also owning a farm.  He died in 1865; his widow still resides in New Brunswick.  They had a family of eight children---six sons and two daughters-of whom four sons and one daughter are living, as follows: Ephraim, Moses, Thomas, C. A., and Eleanor Jane (Mrs. Rideout), all residing in New Brunswick, except our subject.

C. A. Hallett was reared in New Brunswick, and educated in the schools of Hartland.  In March, 1876, he came thence to Menominee, Wis., and engaging with the K. C. Company worked on the Menominee river, and in the woods as foreman in the camp for the company. He assisted in building Quinnesec, Mich., whence in 1880 he came to Florence, Florence county, and had charge of the New York Iron Company's explorations for two years, after which he settled there permanently, and has been engaged in real estate, lumbering, and cruising.   On coming here he laid out the village of Commonwealth, and assisted in building the first few log houses.

On July 4, 1882, at Ripon, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., C. A. Hallett was united in marriage with Miss Imogene Crawford, who was born in Fond du Lac county, and they have had five children, namely: Clara Eleanor, Charles C., Hazel Murel, Ray, and Violet Hope.  The parents of Mrs. Hallett, James and Catharine (Ray) Crawford, were born in Scotland, came to Wisconsin in an early day, and now residing at Green Lake, Green Lake Co., Wis.   Mr. Crawford was a soldier in the Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteers during the war of the Rebellion, serving three years, eight months and seventeen days.

Mr. Hallett owns property in the city of Florence, also a farm of forty acres adjoining. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1895 was elected to his present incumbency, that of assessor.  He assisted in organizing Florence county, and takes an active part in her welfare and the development of her resources.