Lorenzo Dow & Laura M. Worden

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Lorenzo Dow Worden is listed on the 1875 Census for York Township, Clark Co., Wisconsin.  He was born to Henry and Marenda Worden December 19, 1830.  His father was born in Canada (English) and his mother was a native of New York. 

In 1852, Lorenzo married Johanna in Chazy, Clinton County, New York.  Johanna was the daughter of Joseph & Eunice Lavanway and was born May 9, 1832 and died 10 May 1872 in Plattsburg, Clinton Co., NY).  In 1873, Lorenzo married Laura M. who was born in New York during the month of September in 1834.  According to the 1900 Federal Census, her father was born in Scotland and her mother was born in Ireland.

May 1, 1882, he purchased 40 acres of land from Harriett W. Corning, the widow of Erastus Corning whose first wife, Mary Parker Corning, was also deceased.  The property was described as the NE quarter (SE 1/4, NE 1/4 of Section 36. Twp. #25, N Range 1 and sold for $280.  December 1, 1856, Erastus Corning, the president of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company, had first purchased a large amount of Clark County, Wisconsin property and then later conveyed an unsold portion of it to Alexander Mitchell, Charles Butler and Alexander Spaulding who apparently defaulted on the payment for it.  Both Erastus and his first wife had died by that time.  Consequently, it was actually Erastus' second wife, Harriett W. Corning, who sold the land to the L. D. Worden at a judicial sale held in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Laura M. died Thursday, April 2, 1903 in the town of Holeton, Marathon Co., Wisconsin.

Lorenzo died on Christmas Day in 1904 and is buried in the Rine Grove Cemetery, Marathon County, Wisconsin.