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From: R Bradley Potts <>
Subject: [ATWOOD] V2, #2b Atwood Ancestors
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:27:31 -0500


Atwood Ancestors 1984; Volume 2, No 2b
published by Claudette Maerz

Wisconsin

Book: Memoirs of Milwaukee County, Vol 2 Page 550 (1909)

CARROLL ATWOOD, vice-president of the Fidelity Trust Company and one of the
most substantial citizens of Milwaukee, was born in Juneau (Dodge),
Wisconsin on Dec 15, 1853. He is a son of Alson and Arvilla (Doud) Atwood,
both natives of Vermont. The father brought his bride to Juneau in 1845,
and there for eight or nine years was one of the leading physicians of the
vicinity. Later he removed to Trempealeau, Wisconsin, where both he and his
wife passed away. Carroll Atwood, the subject of this review, attended the
public schools of Trempealeau, and when he had completed the prescribed
course there, he entered Ripon College at Ripon, Wisconsin. He graduated
there in the class of 1875 and later matriculated in the law department of
the University of Wisconsin. In 1878 the regents of the university granted
him the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and soon afterward he opened an office
at Whitehall (Trempealeau), for the practice of his chosed profession.
After a successful career of several years he removed to Aberdeen, South
Dakota, and there built up a large and lucrative practice. From Aberdeen he
came to Milwaukee and became associated with the Ogden Abstract of Title
Company. When all the abstract companies in Milwaukee were merged under the
name of the Milwaukee Title Company, Mr Atwood was made manager and
continued in that capacity until January, 1903, when he was tendered and
accepted the vice-prsidency of the Fidelity Trust Company, the position he
is now so creditably filling. In politics he is a staunch adherent of the
tenets of the Republican party, but has never sought to become his party's
candidate for political office of any nature. He is very much engrossed in
his work, and his only social relations are with the University Club. On
April 23, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Hattie C Bullen, a native
of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and to this union have been born three children:
Carroll S, Charles B, and Fredrica H.

Submitted by Irene A Spangler
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1850 Federal Census, LASALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Salisbury Township

526-526
Atwood, William C 38 Illinois
, Frances 35 Virginia
, Robert 9 Illinois
, Mary E 7 "
, Newton 5 "

608-608
Atwood, Walters 25 New Hampshire
, Emma 26 England
, Alice 6/12 Illinois

Don't know if these families are related.
Birthplace of William C Atwood is questioned.
Submitted by: Jean Wade

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