GEORGE R. LAUGHTON, retired, Platteville; has been a citizen of Platteville since Dec. 25, 1842. He was born in London, England, in 1820; came to America with his parents in 1835; lived in New York City and Monroe Co., N. Y., till 1842, when he came to Wisconsin, and located in Platteville. He was engaged in merchandising in Brockport, N. Y., three years, and two years in Clarkson, same county, previous to his coming to Wisconsin. He followed the same business in Platteville till 1846, then engaged in farming two miles out of the village till 1873, when he retired from active business, and came to Platteville to reside. He is at present a member of the City Council, and was one year Supervisor while living in the town. He was married in Platteville in 1844, to Miss Mildred M. Durley of that place, and has had seven children, five of whom are still living, four of them sons, whose average weight is 250 pounds, none of them weighing less than 200, and all in good health. Mr. Laughton was the originator and promotor of the erection of the Grant County Soldiers' Monument at Lancaster, which was the first of the kind erected in the United States.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.