Bio: McEwan, Joseph (1881) 
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Surnames: McEwan, Slosson

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 564

JOSEPH Mc. McEWAN, surveyor and land agent, Wausau, was born in Curlsville, Pa., April 27, 1833. He settled in Plattville, Grant Co., in 1851, for a short time, and in the Winter of 1852-3 was on Government Survey. He also followed the lumber business and remained there until the Fall of 1855, when he moved to Milwaukee, where he remained until December, 1856, when he went to Chicago. In 1857, he went to Manitowoc and followed the lumber business until the Fall of l86l, at which time he enlisted in the 8th Wis. Battery and served until the Fall of 1865. He was mustered out in Milwaukee. He traveled in various portions of the South, and located at Napoleon, Ark., and engaged there in the lumber business. He returned to the North and spent the Winter of 1866-7 in St. Cloud, Minn., and came to Wausau the following Spring. Was married in the Spring of 1869 to Helen M. Slosson. They have three children — Georgia, Clay and Wade.