!BIRTH-PARENTS-SIBLINGS-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-RESIDENCE: Edith Austin Moore, JOSEPH AUSTIN OF NH AND MATTHEW AUSTIN OF ME; p 68; Resided Bloomington, WI.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa,
and Lafayette Wisconsin, J. H. Beers & Co., 1901, Chicago, IL.

Pages 804 - 805 - Grant County

NATHANIEL AUSTIN. Prominent among the early settlers in Bloomington is
Nathaniel AUSTIN, who well represents that hardy class of honest, sensible and
progressive men who have made Grant county the desirable locality it is. When
first he located here, in 1854, a few houses represented what is now a
flourishing town. For more than forty years Mr. AUSTIN has taken his part in
the development of this section of the State of Wisconsin. Nathaniel AUSTIN is
of Canadian birth, although of New England parentage. He was born Aug. 26,
1830, a son of Nicholas and Harriet (ORVIS) AUSTIN, natives of Vermont, who
were of English ancestry, and the family was founded in America in Colonial
times. For generations their religious belief was that of the Hicksite
Quakers. The father of Harriet ORVIS served in the Continental army.
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1880 Census
GRANT, WI Enum. Dist. 99 Reel 1426 Page 25 Date: 06/01
-- Birth Place Father Grandfather
AUSTIN, NETHANIEL W M 50 Head M Canada, (nec) Vermont Vermont
AUSTIN, SAMANTHA C W F 40 Wife M New York Vermont Massachusetts
AUSTIN, EDGAR N W M 18 Child S Wisconsin Canada, (nec) Vermont
AUSTIN, MILLIE C W F 14 Child S Wisconsin Canada, (nec) Vermont
AUSTIN, CHARLES F W M 9 Child S Wisconsin Canada, (nec) Vermont
AUSTIN, WILBUR ? AZN W M 6 Child S Wisconsin Canada, (nec) Vermont

Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa,
and Lafayette Wisconsin, J. H. Beers & Co., 1901, Chicago, IL.

Pages 804 - 805 - Grant County
Nathaniel AUSTIN grew to manhood in his Canadian home and, with his brothers,
assisted in the clearing up of the farm. The country was improved and his
educational advantages were consequently limited. In the fall of 1852 he left
home and started out for himself, coming to Fond du Lac, Wis., and engaging in
any honorable employment that came his way. His wages for his first winter's
work were nine dollars a month. In March of the next year he went to
Lancaster, and there and at Waterloo, Grant county, was constantly employed
until he was able to save the sum of $500, which he applied as a first payment
on a farm which he purchased in the township of Bloomington. Settling on the
place, he industriously labored there for two years, making many improvements,
and then, as opportunity offered, he sold it and returned to Canada. His
health had failed, and, with the hope of regaining it, he did not settle down
again for about a year, when he came back to Bloomington, bought another farm,
upon which he lived for forty years. In February, 1899, he removed to the
village of Bloomington, where he owns a pleasant home and enjoys every comfort
of life.

Mr. AUSTIN had but limited advantages for education in his youth, but has given
his surviving children liberal opportunism, all being graduates of the
Wisconsin State University at Madison. His daughter is a teacher of Latin and
German in the Hudson, Wis., high school, and is a lady of high attainments.
For some time Charles has had charge of a military school at San Antonio,
Texas; and Wilbur is a mechanical engineer, and resides in Chicago. Mr. AUSTIN
adheres to the teachings of his Quaker ancestry, while Mrs. AUSITN is a devoted
and valued member of the Congregational Church. The family is one which
possesses the confidence and high esteem of all the people of Bloomington.

Submitted By: Carol

Not proven
Name: LYMAN, S. B.
Cemetery: Old Orono Stones
County: Durham
Township: Clarke
Reference: WO-

Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa,
and Lafayette Wisconsin, J. H. Beers & Co., 1901, Chicago, IL.

Pages 804 - 805 - Grant County

On Nov. 12, 1857, Nathaniel AUSTIN was married to Samantha C. LYMAN, a daughter
of William and Abigail (CHANDLER) LYMAN, natives of Vermont, but their
ancestors came from Connecticut. Mrs. LYMAN's grandfather, Rev. Amariah
CHANDLER, was a noted Congregational minister for over half a century,
preaching for thirty years in one pulpit and for twenty years in another.
William LYMAN and wife removed soon after their marriage to Cattaraugus county,
N.Y., and in 18543 came to Grant county, Wis. By trade he was a carpenter, but
after locating on the rich lands of this county he engaged in farming and later
removed to Fredericksburg, Iowa, where the wife and mother died, in 1876. Mr.
LYMAN remarried and moved to Kansas, where his second wife died, after which he
returned to Wisconsin and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. AUSTIN until his own
decease, on Feb. 27, 1901, at the age of eighty-six years. Mrs. AUSTIN was one
of a family of ten children; five sons and five daughters, and two sons and two
daughters survive at the present time, these being: Mrs. AUSTIN; Mrs. Eleanor
Augusta BENEDICT; William Azro; and Ordello. Two of the children died in
infancy, and those who attained maturity and have passed away were : Susan C.,
Amariah, Charles and Frank. Mr. and Mrs. AUSTIN have three children surviving,
Eleanor C., Charles F. and Wilbur A., while those who have passed away were:
Alfred Llewellyn, at the age of seventeen, and Edgar at the age of thirty-three.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: Edith Austin Moore, JOSEPH AUSTIN OF NH AND MATTHEW AUSTIN OF ME; p 68.