Mahlon Fawcett From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1003.

TOWN OF CLIFTON

MAHLON FAWCETT, Sec. 26; P. O. Washburn; was born in Frederick Co., Va., Sept. 15, 1802; came with his parents to Belmont Co., Ohio, in 1809, where they settled on a farm; lived there till 1835, when he moved to Greene Co., Ohio, and commenced farming, at which place he remained four years; then went to Paintersville, Ohio, and commenced as a merchant and continued as such for eight years. He then bought in a grist-mill, and was in that business two years, and, in 1853, moved to Grant Co., Wis., and settled on Sec. 34, on the farm then generally known as the J. D. Morett farm. He was a millwright by trade, and worked at that more or less until he was 50 years old. Moved from Sec. 34 to the place where he now lives. Is a member of the M. E. Church, but was raised a Quaker, and remained so till 30 years old. Was Chairman of Town Board and member of School Board eight years. Was married to Jane Gilchrist Jan. 10, 1828, in Belmont Co., Ohio; she died Nov. 6, 1831, and was buried at Flushing Cemetery. Had two children by first wife - Jefferson H. and Sylvanus S. Was married the second time to Sarah Beattie, Sept. 17, 1833, in Belmont Co., Ohio; by this marriage there are fourteen children, of whom ten are living - Evelyn, Beattie, Clinton, Mahlon, Salathiel, Sarah C., Mary Etta, Lorenzo D., Julia M., Clarence A. Those deceased are Joktan, John T., Harriet Jane and one other unnamed. Sarah E. Beattie was born in Virginia Oct. 1, 1810. His son Mahlon was in the 33d W. V. I.; his son Beattie left home in 1857, and has been gone ever since; is now in Custer City, Idaho. Mahlon Fawcett owns 100 acres of land - 80 acres in Sec. 26, and 20 acres timber in Sec. 34; has voted for every President since Jackson, always voting the Whig ticket, and since then the Republican, except when he voted for John P. Hale. His son Clinton now lives in Montana.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.