Untitled Surnames: Hamilton, Cook, Paterson, Brooker, Elliott, Roberts, Sheffield, Phelps, Judd, Eddy, Fusch

From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 54

WARREN HANNUM, son of Warren and Laura (HAMILTON) HANNUM, of whom full mention is made in the biography of Rufus HANNUM, elsewhere, was born in Genesee county, N.Y., Oct. 4, 1824, and in 1837 came to Grant county, Wis. He is therefore classed among the county's pioneers.

Mr. HANNUM lived on the old homestead until his father disposed of it, in 1856, and in 1858 he purchased a tract of land in Hazel Green township, paying for it with the interest derived from the investment of his early savings. He cleared up this tract of 120 acres, and resided thereon until 1863, when he returned to that part of the old homestead now owned and occupied by his brother Rufus, and bought an addition eighty acres of timber land. In 1868 he sold all his property and purchased his present valuable home in Lancaster.

Warren HANNUM was united in marriage, at Rochester, N.Y., for the first time, on March 4, 1863, with Miss Emily E. COOK, who died at their home in Lancaster, Wis., in the autumn of 1868. In August, 1869, Mr. HANNUM, for his second wife, married Miss Eugenia PATERSON, daughter of David B. PATERSON, who was a son of Hugh B. PATERSON, a pioneer of Grant county, as will be perceived by reference to his biography, on another page. To the first marriage of Mr. HANNUM were born two children: Emma M., now the wife of Harry BROOKER, of Lancaster; and Mac, still at her father's home. The second marriage of Mr. HANNUM has been blessed with five children, as follows: Etta, wife of Charles ELLIOTT, of Eagle Grove, Iowa; Mercie, wife of Charles ROBERTS of Lancaster, Wis.; and Chester, Jessie and Warren, at home.

David B. PATERSON, father of Mrs. Warren HANNUM was born in Chautauqua county, N.Y., July 21, 1812, and came to Grant county, Wis., in 1836. In 1837 he went to Ohio, and married, for his first wife, Miss Cornelia M. SHEFFIELD, who was born May 11, 1815, and was a daughter of Alpheus and Dorothy SHEFFIELD. She died Feb. 8, 1862, the mother of nine children, of whom seven are still living: Frances M., of Hawarden, Iowa; Ida, wife of Dr. O. W. PHELPS, of Kanawka, in the same State; Mrs. Eugenia HANNUM, who was born April 4, 1847; Edward S., a resident of Stockton, Ill.; Helen, wife of Henry JUDD, of Bloomington, Grant Co., Wis.; William D., now in Iowa; and Anna, married to Richard EDDY, of Lancaster township, Grant county, Wis. Of the two deceased children, Alvin A., the eldest of the family of nine, was born Sept. 22, 1838, was a soldier of the 25th Wis. V.I., in the Civil war, and died March 8, 1868, from the effects of exposure and fatigue sustained in his army life; Ira, born Jan. 14, 1845, served in the 7th Iowa Cavalry, and died in the service at Omaha, Neb., Oct. 15, 1863.

In 1869 David B. PATERSON selected for his second wife Mary FUSCH, a native of Cornwall, England, and to this marriage two children were born, George and Frederick. David B. PATERSON was a prominent and well-known citizen, and was long identified with the growth of Grant county, even from his pioneer days of 1836, until his death , which occurred in Georgetown, Feb. 9, 1889, his loss being deeply deplored by a large number of sorrowing friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren HANNUM have a very pleasant home, are blessed with every comfort of life, and are surrounded with sincere friends, both old and new, who honor Mr. HANNUM for the active part he has taken in developing Grant county from a wilderness of the frontier into a fruitful and prosperous abode of civilization.



This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck