Bio: Redford, Erwin A. (1881) 
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Surnames: Redford, Wallace, Edwards, Guenther, Kleinstiber

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 571

ERWIN A REDFORD, of the firm of Wallace & Redford, saw mill, Eau Claire River. Mr. R.'s father first went to Milwaukee, in 1833. and moved his family there in 1836. He kept a boarding house and boot and shoe shop for three years, then moved to Waukesha County, where his family were reared, they being the first family that moved in the country from Milwaukee, and raised the first crops of grain. They lived there until 1870, and followed farming and made themselves a good home. Mr. R., the father of Erwin A., was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., and died at the age of eighty at Monroe. Mr. E. A. Redford lived in Waukesha until 1850, then he went to the Wisconsin pineries and worked two years. Then he went into the logging business on his own account, which he followed until 1861. Then he went into the milling business in the capacity of engineer, and followed it until 1869. Then he went in company with Mr. R. G. Wallace and bought a saw mill. He was born in Perrysburg, N. V., June 5, 1831. He was married in Marathon County, October, 1856, to Lora Edwards. She died June 2, l869. They had two children, Anna J., deceased; and Nellie M., now Mrs. Chas. Guenther, of Knowlton. Mr. R. was married again, June l8, 1872, at Milwaukee, to Sophia A. Kleinstiber, born in Germany, May 10, 1842. They have two children, Anna J. and Erwin A., Jr.