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Bio: Lusk, Jacob (1881) Contact: Janet Schwarze ----Surnames: Lusk, Colman, Hewitt ----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1215 JACOB LUSK, farmer and Justice of Peace, Sec. 28, P.O. Auburndale, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 13, 1840. His father, Peter Lusk, moved to Hastings Co., Canada, in 1842. At eighteen years of age, he left home and entered into the employ of A. S. Page & Co., of New York, cutting lumber in Winter, and exploring and surveying during the Summer, in the pine lands of Canada, continuing in their employ some ten years. Then came to Bay City, Mich., and became a salesman in a dry goods store. From there, in the employ of Henry Hewitt, of Neenah, he went into the northern peninsula of Michigan and explored for pine. Then spent one year, from April, 1874, to April, 1875, on the Penoke Iron Range, exploring for iron mines for Hewitt; afterward exploring and locating lands for others along the line of the Wis. Central Railroad. He was married, July 18, 1878, to Miss Margaret Colman, of Boston, Mass., and settled on a farm at Auburndale. He is Justice of the Peace, Notary Public and Town Clerk.
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