Elias Medley From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 960.

TOWN OF LIMA

ELIAS MEDLEY, Sec. 17; P. O. Platteville; was born in 1810, in Trumbull Co., Ohio. Married Margaret A. Espy, who was born in 1810, in Camberland Co., Penn.; in 1846, they came via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Grant Co.; they began in a log house on 80 acres of the present 200-acre farm. They have seven children - Philo H., a twenty years' resident of California; Cornelia, now Mrs. J. Carson, of Kansas; Robert E. and Alfred, now of Lima; Thos. Jefferson, now in Texas; Jane E., wife of Peter Klingensmith, of Lima, and Mary A., now Mrs. H. C. Haskell, of Lima. Mr. Medley has been a life-long farmer, and is now in broken health, partially caused by the labors and hardships incurred by all early settlers in timbered regions.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.