Identifier: wisconsinitsstor05ushe (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin, its story and biography, 1848-1913
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Usher, Ellis Baker, 1852-1931
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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one of significance to the city with which he has so long beenidentified, and his position today in La Crosse is sure, and marred byno element of disfavor. I. H. Moulton wras born at Foxcroft, Piscataquis county, Maine,on November 28, 1828, and there he attended the common schools inhis boyhood days, finishing his academic training at the FoxcroftAcademy. He was twrenty-one years old when in 1849 he removed toSalmon Falls, New Hampshire, where he was engaged as a clerk andbookkeeper until 1852, when he went to New York City. He wasthere engaged in a similar capacity, and after three years removed toProvidence, Rhode Island, and established a grocery business on hisown responsibility. He conducted the place for some eight months,then disposed of the business and returned to Nashua, New Hamp-shire. In the spring of 1857 he went to St. Anthony Falls and openeda dry goods, and crockery business, but the financial crash of 1857closed him out. The next year he ventured into the steamboating
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<^_ HISTORY OF WISCONSIN 1143 business, which he continued in until the 1st of August, 1869, whenhe accepted the agency of the C. M. & St. P. Railway Company at LaCrosse. He continued thus until 1894, when he resigned. He wasappointed United States Surveyor at the port of delivery. La Crosse,and he held the office for two years, in later years being re-appointedand holdingthe same office for seven additional years. He servedunder Grants second administration and also served through Pres-ident Hayes administration. In 1869 Mr. Moulton engaged in thecoal business in La Crosse, which he has conducted with all the successfrom then until now. In 1895 he became connected with the EurekaChemical Manufacturing Company, in which he has continued tomaintain an active interest since that time. He was appointed Com-mercial Agent in August, 1912, for the Erie Railroad in this city,and was one of the original promoters of the La Crosse TelephoneCompany, and in 1895 was made president of the

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