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John Valentine Clark Co., Wisconsin Lumber Barron John Valentine, an early settler of Jackson County, was one of the first land owners in Clark County, Wisconsin. He was born September 17, 1817 in Buffalo, New York. His parents were Abraham and Anne (Woodward) Valentine. Abstract entries for the County show he was co-owner of land in Township 26, which is now know as Eaton Township. His partner was Andrew Shepperd. Being interested in lumbering, Samuel Weston claimed land in section six of Loyal Township, lured by the standings of heavy growth pine and hardwood timber. The hardwoods consisted of white oak, red oak, black oak, white and black ash, birch, maple, basswood and butternut. The first to be harvested were the towering pines with hardwoods going later, hardwoods that would make present day lumbermen feel they had found Utopia.
Beneath the forest cover, was rich and deep soil, adaptable for excellent farmland, to be proven in later years. Many small streams of pure water wound through the forested area, with no swamps.
After Weston, Andrew Sheppard and John Valentine took up sections 3, 4 and 5 with Stephen Amery claiming section 19 and were business partners for over twenty-five years. Both of them lived in the ghost town of "Boomville", but when John's first wife, Chloe Gaffin, died, he took up residence in the 5th Ward of La Crosse, Wisconsin and built the first frame home in that area. In 1851, he constructed "The Packet Company Mill" and made lath bolts, but one Friday was struck and severely injured while working on one of them. He died that Sunday, May 30, 1875 and a large funeral followed. His son, Horace, also died in that mill.
James O’Neill's
marriage to Jane Douglas on 7 March 1847, was officiated by John Valentine,
Justice of the Peace, at Melrose, (now in Jackson County).
Marriage 1 Chloe Ann Gaffin b: 10 Jun 1819 in Quebec, Canada
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